{
  "id": "cond-mat/0104109",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2001-04-06T13:17:16.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-07-11T12:25:08.000Z",
  "title": "The Rashba Hamiltonian and electron transport",
  "authors": [
    "Laurens W. Molenkamp",
    "Georg Schmidt",
    "Gerrit E. W. Bauer"
  ],
  "comment": "one tex file, two figures; paper to appear in this form in PRB (RC)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.64.121202",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due to the mixing of spin states some care has to be exercised in the calculation of transport properties. We derive the velocity operator for the Rashba-split conduction band and demonstrate that the transmission of an interface between a ferromagnet and a Rashba-split semiconductor does not depend on the magnetization direction, in contrast with previous assertions in the literature.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2001-07-11T12:25:08.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "rashba hamiltonian",
      "electron transport",
      "rashba-split conduction band",
      "magnetization direction",
      "rashba-split semiconductor"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}