Emmanuel Rashba
Emmanuel Rashba | |
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| Ukrainian: Еммануїл Йосипович Рашба Russian: Эммануил Иосифович Рашба | |
| Born | October 30, 1927 Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Died | January 12, 2025 (aged 97) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Physical Department |
| Known for | Rashba effect EDSR Giant oscillator strength Non-Euclidean surface growth |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics, spintronics, nanoscience |
| Institutions | Institute of Physics (Kyiv), Institute of Semiconductors (Kyiv), Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow), University of Utah (Salt Lake City), University at Buffalo, SUNY Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
Emmanuel I. Rashba (October 30, 1927 – January 12, 2025) was a Soviet-American theoretical physicist of Jewish origin who worked in Ukraine, Russia and in the United States. Rashba is known for his contributions to different areas of condensed matter physics and spintronics, especially the Rashba effect in spin physics, and also for the prediction of electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR), that was widely investigated and became a regular tool for operating electron spins in nanostructures, phase transitions in spin-orbit coupled systems driven by change of the Fermi surface topology, Giant oscillator strength of impurity excitons, and coexistence of free and self-trapped excitons. The principal subject of spintronics is all-electric operation of electron spins, and EDSR was the first phenomenon predicted and experimentally observed in this field.