Quantum dissipative Rashba spin ratchets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Smirnov, Sergey ^a   Bercioux, Dario ^a,b   Grifoni, Milena ^a   Richter, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETONES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SEDIMENTATION; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

(LIQUID + LIQUID) EQUILIBRIUM; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; CHARGE TRANSPORTING; COUPLING STRENGTHS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; LOW TEMPERATURE (LTR); ORBITAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; QUASI ONE DIMENSIONAL (Q1D); RASHBA SPIN; RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION (RSOI); SPIN CURRENTS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 45249091864     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.230601     Document Type: Article

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