Rashba spin–orbit coupling and spin precession in carbon nanotubes

2005/06/30 by A. De Martino, Alessandro De Martino, R. Egger +1 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Graphene research and applications #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/17/36/008

published as J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 17, 5523 (2005) · 12 pages, published version

openalex publication_date 2005/08/25 · arxiv created 2005/09/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The Rashba spin–orbit coupling in carbon nanotubes and its effect on spin-dependent transport properties are analysed theoretically. We focus on clean non-interacting nanotubes with tunable number of subbands N . The peculiar band structure is shown to allow in principle Datta–Das oscillatory behaviour in the tunnelling magnetoresistance as a function of gate voltage, despite the presence of multiple bands. We discuss the conditions for observing Datta–Das oscillations in carbon nanotubes.

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