Spin transport properties of a Dresselhaus-polygonal quantum ring

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/3/030303

Abstract

We propose a theoretical method to investigate the effect of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (DSOC) on the spin transport properties of a regular polygonal quantum ring with an arbitrary number of segments. We find that the DSOC can break the time reversal symmetry of the spin conductance in a polygonal ring and that this property can be used to reverse the spin direction of electrons in the polygon with the result that a pure spin up or pure spin down conductance can be obtained by exchanging the source and the drain. When the DSOC is considered in a polygonal ring with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) with symmetric attachment of the leads, the total conductance is independent of the number of segments when both of the two types of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have the same value. However, the interaction of the two types of SOC results in an anisotropic and shape-dependent conductance in a polygonal ring with asymmetric attachment of the leads. The method we proposed to solve for the spin conductance of a polygon can be generalized to the circular model.

Keywords: Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling spin transport property polygonal quantum ring

Received: 22 September 2014
Revised: 31 October 2014
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PACS:	03.65.Nk	(Scattering theory)
	72.25.Dc	(Spin polarized transport in semiconductors)
	71.70.Ej	(Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61176089), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant No. A2011205092), and the Foundation of Shijiazhuang University, China (Grant No. XJPT002).

Corresponding Authors: Shen Man, Liu Jian-Jun
E-mail: shenman@semi.ac.cn;liujj@mail.hebtu.edu.cn

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Tang Han-Zhao (唐翰昭), Zhai Li-Xue (翟利学), Shen Man (沈曼), Liu Jian-Jun (刘建军) Spin transport properties of a Dresselhaus-polygonal quantum ring 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 030303

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