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g-Factor anisotropy of hole quantum wires induced by the Rashba interaction
We present calculations of the g factors for the lower conductance steps of
3D hole quantum wires. Our results prove that the anisotropy with magnetic
field orientation, relative to the wire, originates in the Rashba spin-orbit
coupling. We also analyze the relevance of the deformation, as the wire evolves
from 3D towards a flat 2D geometry. For high enough wire deformations, the
perpendicular g factors are greatly quenched by the Rashba interaction. On the
contrary, parallel g factors are rather insensistive to the Rashba interaction,
resulting in a high g factor anisotropy. For low deformations we find a more
irregular behavior which hints at a sample dependent scenario.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures (expanded from previous version
Multichannel effects in Rashba quantum wires
We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in
the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When
the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is
perpendicular to the Rashba field, the spin-transistor current is expected to
depend in a oscillatory way on the Rashba coupling strength due to spin
coherent oscillations of the travelling electrons. Nevertheless, we find that
the presence of many propagating modes strongly influences the spin precession
effect, leading to (i) a quenching of the oscillations and (ii) strongly
irregular curves for high values of the Rashba coupling. We also observe that
in the case of leads' magnetization parallel to the Rashba field, the
conductance departs from a uniform value as the Rashba strength increases. We
also discuss the Rashba interaction induced current polarization effects when
the contacts are not magnetic and investigate how this mechanism is affected by
the presence of several propagating channels.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Linear conductance oscillations of quantum wires and stripes with Rashba interaction
An analysis of the linear conductance of 2D quantum wires and stripes with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and attached to spin polarized leads is presented. Differences and similarities between both systems are highlighted. We discuss the dependence of the conductance with both energy and Rashba intensity.We acknowledge R. L´opez and D. S´anchez for valuable discussions. This work was supported
by the Grant No. FIS2008-00781.Peer reviewe
Profiles of online students and the impact of their university experience
In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explore the student profiles at a university that gives all its courses online, namely the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and analyse students' perceptions of their university experience. With this goal in mind, we constructed a student typology based on their social conditions and backgrounds using multiple correspondence analysis. Subsequently, an analysis of variance (Kruskall-Wallis test) was run to detect whether there were any differences in students' perceptions of the impact of their university experience (N = 1850). Although the prevailing profile of students in the online university continues to reflect students with responsibilities outside of the university (e.g., work and/or family), new profiles have been observed, made up of younger students without any work or family responsibilities. In turn, younger students' distinct perceptions of their university experience has been observed, depending on student profiles, with older students having more intrinsic perceptions, focused on learning and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge
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