title: Rashba spin-orbit interaction and shot noise for spin-polarized and entangled electrons.
abstract: We study shot noise for spin-polarized currents and entangled electron pairs in a four-probe (beam-splitter) geometry with a local Rashba spin-orbit (s-o) interaction in the incoming leads. Within the scattering formalism we find that shot noise exhibits Rashba-induced oscillations with continuous bunching and antibunching. We show that entangled states and triplet states can be identified via their Rashba phase in noise measurements. For two-channel leads, we find an additional spin rotation due to s-o induced interband coupling which enhances spin control. We show that the s-o interaction deter-mines the Fano factor, which provides a direct way to measure the Rashba coupling constant via noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Egues
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burkard
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Loss