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Conserved spin Hall conductance in two dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Using the microscopic theory of the conserved spin current [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 076604 (2006)], we investigate the spin Hall effect in the two dimensional electron gas system with a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin Hall conductance σμνs\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s} as a response to the electric field consists of two parts, i.e., the conventional part σμνs0\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s0} and the spin torque dipole correction σμνsτ\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s\tau}. It is shown that the spin-orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting by introducing additional degeneracies between different Landau levels at certain values of magnetic field. These degeneracies, if occurring at the Fermi level, turn to give rise to resonances in both σμνs0\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s0} and σμνsτ\sigma_{\mu\nu }^{s\tau} in spin Hall conductance. Remarkably, both of these two components have the same sign in the wide range of variation in the magnetic field, which result in an overall enhancement of the total spin Hall current. In particular, the magnitude of σμνsτ\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s\tau} is much larger than that of σμνs0\sigma_{\mu\nu}^{s0} around the resonance.

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@article{arxiv.0706.0047,
  title  = {Conserved spin Hall conductance in two dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field},
  author = {Zhigang Wang and Ping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0047},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B