Valín-Rodríguez, M.; Puente, A.; Serra, L. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 34 (2003) 3, pp. 359-365
The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The pure spin precession characteristic of the 1D limit is...