Spin-helical detection in a semiconductor quantum device with ferromagnetic contacts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02884v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 03:18:53 GMT
• Title: Spin-helical detection in a semiconductor quantum device with ferromagnetic contacts
• Authors: Zedong Yang, Paul A. Crowell and Vlad S. Pribiag
• Abstract summary: We show that it is possible to detect helical modes with high sensitivity even in the presence of realistic device effects, such as quantum interference. Our results are of interest not only for the ongoing development of Majorana qubits, but also as for realizing possible spin-based quantum devices.
• Score: 0.024171019220503395
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spin-helical states, which arise in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) channels with spin-orbital (SO) coupling, underpin efforts to realize topologically-protected quantum bits based on Majorana modes in semiconductor nanowires. Detecting helical states is challenging due to non-idealities present in real devices. Here we show by means of tight-binding calculations that by using ferromagnetic contacts it is possible to detect helical modes with high sensitivity even in the presence of realistic device effects, such as quantum interference. This is possible because of the spin-selective transmission properties of helical modes. In addition, we show that spin-polarized contacts provide a unique path to investigate the spin texture and spin-momentum locking properties of helical states. Our results are of interest not only for the ongoing development of Majorana qubits, but also as for realizing possible spin-based quantum devices, such as quantum spin modulators and interconnects based on spin-helical channels.

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