Diffusion equation and spin drag in spin-polarized transport
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important, because they tend to equilibrate the momentum of the two spin species. This ``spin drag'' effect enhances the resistivity of the system. The enhancement is stronger the lower the dimension and should be measurable in for example a two dimensional electron gas with ferromagnetic contacts. We also include spin flip scattering which has two effects: it equilibrates the spin density imbalance and, provided it has a non s-wave component, also the current imbalance.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107149,
title = {Diffusion equation and spin drag in spin-polarized transport},
author = {Karsten Flensberg and Thomas Stibius Jensen and Niels Asger Mortensen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107149},
year = {2007}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure