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SUBMITTER: Luo W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345826 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Luo Wenchen W Naseri Amin A Sirker Jesko J Chakraborty Tapash T
Scientific reports 20190124 1
Spin textures of one or two electrons in a quantum dot with Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings reveal several intriguing properties. We show here that even at the single-electron level stable spin vortices with tunable topological charges exist. These topological textures appear in the ground state of the dots. The textures are stabilized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and are robust against the eccentricity of the dot. The topological charge is directly related to the sign of the z ...[more]