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Spin Edge Helices in a Perpendicular Magnetic Field

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 18, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.186601

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  1. EU [PIIF-GA-2009-235394]
  2. DFG [SFB 689]

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We present an exact solution to the problem of the spin edge states in the presence of equal Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit fields in a two-dimensional electron system, restricted by a hard-wall confining potential and exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. We find that the spectrum of the spin edge states depends critically on the orientation of the sample edges with respect to the crystallographic axes. Such a strikingly different spectral behavior generates new modes of the persistent spin helix-spin edge helices with novel properties, which can be tuned by the applied electric and magnetic fields.

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