2022/03/20 by Po-Hsin Shih, Shih, Po-Hsin, Godfrey Gumbs +7
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Quantum and electron transport phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.10606
openalex publication_date 2022/03/20 · openalex created_date 2022/04/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy and angle of incident electrons or barrier height, different features associated with tunneling and reflection of electrons are revealed by inter-spin-channel electron tunnelings and reflections. These unique properties are further accompanied by spin-state quantum interference of either a reflected or transmitted pairs of spin-correlated electrons with the same kinetic energy but in different spin-orbital states. Such distinctive features are expected to give rise to a lot of applications in both spintronics and quantum-computation devices.