Persistent spin textures and currents in wurtzite nanowire-based quantum structures
arXiv:2001.06571 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.195418
Abstract
We explore the spin and charge properties of electrons in wurtzite semiconductor nanowires where radial and axial confinement leads to tubular or ring-shaped quantum structures. Accounting for spin-orbit interaction induced by the wurtzite lattice as well as a radial potential gradient, we analytically derive the corresponding low-dimensional Hamiltonians. It is demonstrated that the resulting tubular spin-orbit Hamiltonian allows to construct spin states that are persistent in time and robust against disorder. We find that these special scenarios are characterized by distinctive features in the optical conductivity spectrum, which enable an unambiguous experimental verification. In both types of quantum structures, we discuss the dependence of the occurring persistent charge and spin currents on an axial magnetic field and Fermi energy which show clear fingerprints of the electronic subband structure. Here, the spin-preserving symmetries become manifest in the vanishing of certain spin current tensor components. Our analytic description relates the distinctive features of the optical conductivity and persistent currents to bandstructure characteristics which allows to deduce spin-orbit coefficients and other band parameters from measurements.
arXiv comment18 pages, 8 figures
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