Regensburg 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 26: Spin-controlled Transport II
HL 26.7: Vortrag
Dienstag, 23. März 2010, 15:45–16:00, H14
Interference of heavy holes in an Aharonov-Bohm ring — •Dimitrije Stepanenko1, Minchul Lee2, Guido Burkard3, and Daniel Loss1 — 1University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland — 2Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea — 3University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
We study the coherent transport of heavy holes through a one-dimensional ring in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Spin-orbit interaction of holes, cubic in the in-plane components of momentum, gives rise to an angular momentum dependent spin texture of the eigenstates and influences transport. We analyze the dependence of the resulting differential conductance of the ring on hole polarization of the leads and the signature of the textures in the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations when the ring is in a perpendicular magnetic field. We find that the polarization-resolved conductance reveals whether the dominant spin-orbit coupling is of Dresselhaus or Rashba type, and that the cubic spin-orbit coupling can be distinguished from the conventional linear coupling by observing the four-peak structure in the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations.