St\v{r}eda formula for charge and spin currents
Abstract
We consider a 2-dimensional Bloch--Landau--Pauli Hamiltonian for a spinful electron in a constant magnetic field subject to a periodic background potential. Assuming that the -component of the spin operator is conserved, we compute the linear response of the associated spin density of states to a small change in the magnetic field, and identify it with the spin Hall conductivity. This response is in the form of a spin Chern marker, which is in general quantized to a half-integer, and to an integer under the further assumption of time-reversal symmetry. Our result is thus a generalization to the context of the quantum spin Hall effect to the well-known formula by St\v{r}eda, which is formulated instead for charge transport.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.02419,
title = {St\v{r}eda formula for charge and spin currents},
author = {Domenico Monaco and Massimo Moscolari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02419},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
10 pages. Improved exposition, references added and minor corrections. Final version matches published paper on Reviews in Mathematical Physics