Universal spin-induced time reversal symmetry breaking in two-dimensional electron gases with rashba spin-orbit interaction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Meijer, F E ^a   Morpurgo, A F ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^a   Nitta, J ^b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION ENERGY (ESOI); SPIN-INDUCED TIME; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRY (TRS); ZEEMAN ENERGY (EZ);

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 27144444056     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.186805     Document Type: Article

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