Effect of Total Reflection from a Symmetric Two-Channel Device with Fermion Path Nonanalyticity Points Induced by Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Abstract

The effect Rashba spin-orbit coupling has on transmission coefficient through a symmetric system with fermion path nonanalyticity points is illustrated using the example of a regular polygon-shaped chain. It is shown that the current passage through a device is blocked at the critical spin-orbit coupling values determined by the system’s geometry. At the near-critical spin-orbit coupling values, electron transport is possible only in a narrow range of energies.