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Gate-Controlled Spin-Orbit Quantum Interference Effects in Lateral Transport

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: In situ control of spin-orbit coupling in coherent transport using a clean GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas is realized, leading to a gate-tunable crossover from weak localization to antilocalization. The necessary theory of 2D magnetotransport in the presence of spin-orbit coupling beyond the diffusive approximation is developed and used to analyze experimental data. With this theory the Rashba contribution and linear and cubic Dresselhaus contributions to spin-orbit coupling are separately estimated, allowing the angular dependence of spin-orbit precession to be extracted at various gate voltages.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.076807

Authors: J. B. Miller, D. M. Zumbühl, C. M. Marcus, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, K. Campman, A. C. Gossard

Institutions: Harvard University, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University, University of California, Santa Barbara

Language: English

Topic: Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1990319188

FWCI: 25.7

Cites: 34

Cited by: 431

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