Gate-controlled spin-orbit quantum interference effects in lateral transport

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Feb 21;90(7):076807. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.076807. Epub 2003 Feb 20.

Abstract

In situ control of spin-orbit coupling in coherent transport using a clean GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas is realized, leading to a gate-tunable crossover from weak localization to antilocalization. The necessary theory of 2D magnetotransport in the presence of spin-orbit coupling beyond the diffusive approximation is developed and used to analyze experimental data. With this theory the Rashba contribution and linear and cubic Dresselhaus contributions to spin-orbit coupling are separately estimated, allowing the angular dependence of spin-orbit precession to be extracted at various gate voltages.