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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 26: Spin-controlled Transport II
HL 26.3: Talk
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 14:30–14:45, H14
Beating of Friedel oscillations induced by spin-orbit interaction — •Samvel M. Badalyan1,2, Alex Matos-Abiague1, Giovanni Vignale3, and Jaro Fabian1 — 1Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany — 2Department of Radiophysics, Yerevan State University, 1 A. Manoukian Street, Yerevan, 375025 Armenia — 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
By exploiting our recently derived exact formula for the Lindhard polarization function in the presence of Bychkov-Rashba (BR) and Dresselhaus (D) spin-orbit interaction (SOI), we show that the interplay of different SOI mechanisms induces highly anisotropic modifications of the static dielectric function. We find that under certain circumstances the polarization function exhibits doubly-singular behavior, which leads to an intriguing novel phenomenon, beating of Friedel oscillations. This effect is a general feature of systems with BR+D SOI and should be observed in structures with a sufficiently strong SOI.
The work is supported by the EU Grant PIIF-GA-2009-235394 (SMB), SFB Grant No. 689, and NSF Grant No. DMR-0705460 (GV).