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Low field phase diagram of spin-Hall effect in the mesoscopic regime

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

When a mesoscopic two dimensional four-terminal Hall cross-bar with Rashba and/or Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is subjected to a perpendicular uniform magnetic field BB, both integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) and mesoscopic spin-Hall effect (MSHE) may exist when disorder strength WW in the sample is weak. We have calculated the low field "phase diagram" of MSHE in the (B,W)(B,W) plane for disordered samples in the IQHE regime. For weak disorder, MSHE conductance GsHG_{sH} and its fluctuations rms(GSH)rms(G_{SH}) vanish identically on even numbered IQHE plateaus, they have finite values on those odd numbered plateaus induced by SOI, and they have values GSH=1/2G_{SH}=1/2 and rms(GSH)=0rms(G_{SH})=0 on those odd numbered plateaus induced by Zeeman energy. For moderate disorder, the system crosses over into a regime where both GsHG_{sH} and rms(GSH)rms(G_{SH}) are finite. A larger disorder drives the system into a chaotic regime where GsH=0G_{sH}=0 while rms(GSH)rms(G_{SH}) is finite. Finally at large disorder both GsHG_{sH} and rms(GSH)rms(G_{SH}) vanish. We present the physics behind this ``phase diagram".

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610288,
  title  = {Low field phase diagram of spin-Hall effect in the mesoscopic regime},
  author = {Zhenhua Qiao and Wei Ren and Jian Wang and Hong Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610288},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 page, 3 figures