Low field phase diagram of spin-Hall effect in the mesoscopic regime
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 , both integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) and mesoscopic spin-Hall effect (MSHE) may exist when disorder strength in the sample is weak. We have calculated the low field "phase diagram" of MSHE in the plane for disordered samples in the IQHE regime. For weak disorder, MSHE conductance and its fluctuations vanish identically on even numbered IQHE plateaus, they have finite values on those odd numbered plateaus induced by SOI, and they have values and on those odd numbered plateaus induced by Zeeman energy. For moderate disorder, the system crosses over into a regime where both and are finite. A larger disorder drives the system into a chaotic regime where while is finite. Finally at large disorder both and 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