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Transport Equations and Spin-Charge Propagating Mode in the Two Dimensional Hole Gas

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We find that the spin-charge motion in a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) supports a propagating mode of cubic dispersion apart from the diffusive mode due to momentum scattering. Propagating modes seem to be a generic property of systems with spin-orbit coupling. Through a rigorous Keldysh approach, we obtain the transport equations for the 2DHG, we analyze the behavior of the hole spin relaxation time, the diffusion coefficients, and the spin-charge coupled motion.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601353,
  title  = {Transport Equations and Spin-Charge Propagating Mode in the Two Dimensional Hole Gas},
  author = {Taylor L. Hughes and B. Andrei Bernevig and Yaroslaw B. Bazaliy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601353},
  year   = {2009}
}