1. Nuclear spin relaxation in Rashba nanowires.
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Zyuzin, Alexander A., Tobias Meng, Kornich, Viktoriia, and Loss, Daniel
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NANOWIRES , *SPIN-orbit interactions , *RASHBA effect , *MAGNETIC fields , *ELECTRONS , *ATOMIC interactions - Abstract
We study the nuclear spin relaxation in a ballistic nanowire with hyperfine and Rashba spin-orbit interactions (SOI) and in the presence of magnetic field and electron interactions. The relaxation rate shows pronounced peaks as a function of magnetic field and chemical potential due to van Hove singularities in the Rashba bands. As a result, the regimes of weak and strong SOIs can be distinguished by the number of peaks in the rate. The relaxation rate increases with increasing magnetic field if both Rashba subbands are occupied, whereas it decreases if only the lowest one is occupied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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