 Fermi contours of an isotropic Rashba band

For the Rashba effect with $k_R>0$, put $D=\sqrt{k_R^2+2m{E}_F/{\hslash }^2}$. If $-E_R<E_F<0$, both Fermi contours belong to the lower branch and bound the singly occupied annulus $k_R-D<k<k_R+D$; the central disk and exterior are empty. At $E_F=0$, the lower occupied disk has outer radius $2k_R$, while the origin is a degenerate point at the Fermi energy. For $E_F>0$, the lower Fermi contour has radius $k_{-}=D+k_R$ and the upper Fermi contour radius $k_{+}=D-k_R$. The inner disk has two occupied spin-split eigenstates at each momentum, the intervening annulus has one, and the exterior is empty. Consequently $k_{-}-k_{+}=2k_R$, whereas below the crossing the two lower-branch radii add to $2k_R$. At zero temperature, changing occupation values only on these Fermi contours affects a null set and leaves the integrated carrier density unchanged.