2007/10/31 by John Schliemann · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.77.125303
published as Phys. Rev. B 77, 125303 (2008) · 14 pages, 8 figures included, version to appear in Phys. Rev. B
arxiv created 2008/01/14 · openalex publication_date 2008/03/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate the ballistic motion of electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. Taking into account the full quantum dynamics of the problem, we explore the modifications of classical cyclotron orbits due to spin-orbit interaction. As a result, for electron energies comparable to the cyclotron energy, the dynamics is particularly rich and not adequately described by semiclassical approximations. Our study is complementary to previous semiclassical approaches concentrating on the regime of weaker fields.