We investigated the effect of the Rashba spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional electron gases and quasi one-dimensional wire structures based on a strained InGaAs/InP heterostructure. For the two-dimensional electron gas structure it is demonstrated that the Rashba effect can be controlled by using a gate electrode. By a detailed discussion it is shown that our heterostructure can be employed ...

T. P. Simula, M. J. Davis, and P. B. Blakie Lundbeck Foundation Theoretical Center for Quantum System Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O.Box 1100, FI-02015 TKK, Finland ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, B...

The one– and two– particle densities of up to four interacting electrons with spin, confined within a quasi one–dimensional “quantum dot” are calculated by numerical diagonalization. The transition from a dense homogeneous charge distribution to a dilute localized Wigner–type electron arrangement is investigated. The influence of the long range part of the Coulomb interaction is studied. When t...

One-dimensional Bose gases are considered, interacting either through the hardcore potentials or through the contact delta potentials. Interest in these gases gained momentum because of the recent experimental realization of quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases in traps with tightly confined radial motion, achieving the Tonks-Girardeau (TG) regime of strongly interacting atoms. For such gases the F...

We report in situ measurements of density fluctuations in a quasi-one-dimensional 87Rb Bose gas at thermal equilibrium in an elongated harmonic trap. We observe an excess of fluctuations compared to the shot-noise level expected for uncorrelated atoms. At low atomic density, the measured excess is in good agreement with the expected "bunching" for an ideal Bose gas. At high density, the measure...

We discuss the model of a D-dimensional confined electron gas in which the particles are trapped by a harmonic potential. In particular, we study the non-interacting kinetic and exchange energies of finite-size inhomogeneous systems, and compare the resulting Thomas–Fermi and Dirac coefficients with various uniform electron gas paradigms. We show that, in the thermodynamic limit, the properties...