{
  "id": "0905.0611",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-05-05T14:11:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-05-05T14:11:38.000Z",
  "title": "Transport through a band insulator with Rashba spin-orbit coupling: metal-insulator transition and spin-filtering effects",
  "authors": [
    "Thibaut Jonckheere",
    "George Japaridze",
    "Thierry Martin",
    "Roland Hayn"
  ],
  "journal": "Physical Review B 81 (2010) 165443",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.81.165443",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of a one-dimensional band insulator with magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is connected to nonmagnetic leads. Without spin-orbit coupling we find a complete spin-filtering effect, meaning that the electric transport occurs in one spin channel only. For a large magnetic field which closes the band gap, we show that spin-orbit coupling leads to a transition from metallic to insulating behavior. The oscillations of the different spin-components of the current with the length of the transport channel are studied as well.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-05-05T14:11:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "72.25.-b",
      "71.70.Ej"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "rashba spin-orbit coupling",
      "spin-filtering effect",
      "metal-insulator transition",
      "large magnetic field",
      "one-dimensional band insulator"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 81,
      "number": 16,
      "pages": 165443
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvB..81p5443J"
    }
  }
}