Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-04-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
23 pages, 7 figures; to be published in Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
The concept of ratchets, driven asymmetric periodic structures giving rise to directed particle flow, has recently been generalized to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin currents mediated through spin-orbit interaction. Here we consider such systems in the coherent mesoscopic regime and generalize the proposal of a minimal spin ratchet model based on a non-interacting clean quantum wire with two transverse channels by including disorder and by self-consistently treating the charge redistribution in the nonlinear (adiabatic) ac-driving regime. Our Keldysh-Green function based quantum transport simulations show that the spin ratchet mechanism is robust and prevails for disordered, though non-diffusive, mesoscopic structures. Extending the two-channel to the multi-channel case does not increase the net ratchet spin current efficiency but, remarkably, yields a dc spin transmission increasing linearly with channel number.
Bercioux Dario
Richter Klaus
Scheid Matthias
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