Vanishing of the Dissipationless Spin Hall Effect in a Diffusive Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Materials Science
2007-05-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function approach to study the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system with both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. By taking into account the long-range electron-impurity scattering, the derived kinetic equations are solved numerically. It is found the vanishing of the total zero-temperature dissipationless spin-Hall effect, contributing from the intrinsic and disorder-mediated processes. This result has been examined in the wide ranges of spin-orbit coupling constants and electron density.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502392,
title = {Vanishing of the Dissipationless Spin Hall Effect in a Diffusive Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling},
author = {S. Y. Liu and X. L. Lei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502392},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure