Out-of-plane spin polarization from in-plane electric and magnetic fields
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric fields, for angle-dependent impurity scattering or nonparabolic energy spectrum, while only in-plane polarization persists for simplified models. We derive Bloch equations, describing the main features of recent experiments, including the magnetic field dependence of static and dynamic responses.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609078,
title = {Out-of-plane spin polarization from in-plane electric and magnetic fields},
author = {Hans-Andreas Engel and Emmanuel I. Rashba and Bertrand I. Halperin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609078},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages and 1 figure in main text, 5 pages in appendix