Rashba spin precession in quantum-Hall edge channels

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Pala, Marco G ^a,b   Governale, Michele ^c   Zülicke, Ulrich ^d   Iannaccone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INTERFEROMETER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 20144381102     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115306     Document Type: Article

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