The Edelstein effect in the presence of impurity spin-orbit scattering
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-10-27 v1
Abstract
In this paper we study the current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, known also as the Edelstein effect. Compared to previous treatments, we consider both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction as well as the spin-orbit interaction from impurity scattering. In evaluating the Kubo formula for the spin polarization response to an applied electric field, we explicitly take into account the side-jump and skew-scattering effects. We show that the inclusion of side-jump and skew-scattering modifies the expression of the current-induced spin polarization.
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@article{arxiv.1610.08258,
title = {The Edelstein effect in the presence of impurity spin-orbit scattering},
author = {Amin Maleki and Roberto Raimondi and Ka Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08258},
year = {2016}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings for SSPCM 2016