Jittery Quantum Boomerang Effect (opens in new tab)

We study the dynamics of a spin-polarized wave packet in a disordered Rashba two-dimensional electron gas and identify a jittery quantum boomerang effect in which longitudinal and transverse motion return to the origin through fundamentally distinct mechanisms. Starting from an initial state with finite momentum along $x$ and spin polarized along $z$, we calculate the time evolution by combining a Chebyshev expansion of the time-evolution operat...