17 research outputs found
Observation of Spin-Orbit Berry's Phase in Magnetoresistance of a Two-Dimensional Hole Anti-dot System
We report observation of spin-orbit Berry's phase in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB)
type oscillation of weak field magnetoresistance in an anti-dot lattice (ADL)
of a two-dimensional hole system. An AB-type oscillation is superposed on the
commensurability peak, and the main peak in the Fourier transform is clearly
split up due to variation in Berry's phase originating from the spin-orbit
interaction. A simulation considering Berry's phase and the phase arising from
the spin-orbit shift in the momentum space shows qualitative agreement with the
experiment.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Resonance Patterns of an Antidot Cluster: From Classical to Quantum Ballistics
We explain the experimentally observed Aharonov-Bohm (AB) resonance patterns
of an antidot cluster by means of quantum and classical simulations and Feynman
path integral theory. We demonstrate that the observed behavior of the AB
period signals the crossover from a low B regime which can be understood in
terms of electrons following classical orbits to an inherently quantum high B
regime where this classical picture and semiclassical theories based on it do
not apply.Comment: 5 pages revtex + 2 postscript figure
Edge magnetoplasmons in periodically modulated structures
We present a microscopic treatment of edge magnetoplasmons (EMP's) within the
random-phase approximation for strong magnetic fields, low temperatures, and
filling factor , when a weak short-period superlattice potential is
imposed along the Hall bar. The modulation potential modifies both the spatial
structure and the dispersion relation of the fundamental EMP and leads to the
appearance of a novel gapless mode of the fundamental EMP. For sufficiently
weak modulation strengths the phase velocity of this novel mode is almost the
same as the group velocity of the edge states but it should be quite smaller
for stronger modulation. We discuss in detail the spatial structure of the
charge density of the renormalized and the novel fundamental EMP's.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Slow Spin Relaxation in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Antidots
We report a Monte Carlo investigation of the effect of a lattice of antidots
on spin relaxation in twodimensional electron systems. The spin relaxation time
is calculated as a function of geometrical parameters describing the antidot
lattice, namely, the antidot radius and the distance between their centers. It
is shown that spin polarization relaxation can be efficiently suppressed by the
chaotic spatial motion due to the antidot lattice. This phenomenon offers a new
approach to spin coherence manipulation in spintronics devices.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev.