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The third-rank tensor of the static spin Hall conductivity is investigated for two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators by electronic structure calculations. Its seeming quantization is numerically demonstrated for highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Filipe Matusalem , Lars Matthes , Jürgen Furthmüller , Marcelo Marques , Lara K. Teles , Friedhelm Bechstedt

A theory based on the Aharonov -Bohm effect in the momentum space for the Spin-Hall conductivity without a magnetic field is presented. The two dimensional Rashba Hamiltonian is diagonalized in the momentum spinor basis. This spinor is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schmeltzer

We present an extension of the relativistic electron transport theory for the standard (charge) conductivity tensor of random alloys within the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method to the so-called spin-dependent conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-18 Ilja Turek , Josef Kudrnovsky , Vaclav Drchal

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

We report a theoretical investigation on spin-Hall conductance fluctuation of disordered four terminal devices in the presence of Rashba or/and Dresselhaus spin-orbital interactions in two dimensions. As a function of disorder, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang , Qingfeng Sun , Hong Guo

We study the edge spin current and spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The edge effect removes the degeneracy of Landau levels due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Juan Bao , Huai-Bing Zhuang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang

The coupling between Zeeman spin splitting and Rashba spin-orbit terms has been studied experimentally in a gated InGaAs/InP quantum well structure by means of simultaneous measurements of the weak antilocalization (WAL) effect and beating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Studenikin , P. T. Coleridge , G. Yu , P. J. Poole

A two-dimensional kagome lattice is theoretically investigated within a simple tight-binding model, which includes the nearest neighbor hopping term and the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction between the next nearest neighbors. By using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

We study the spin-resolved spectral properties of the impurity states associated to the presence of magnetic impurities in two-dimensional, as well as one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We focus on Shiba bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 V. Kaladzhyan , P. Simon , C. Bena

In this work, we present the analytical solution of the effective mass Pauli equation, with Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions, for an electron gas moving through a semiconductor quantum dot under a longitudinal electric field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. L. Cardoso

We study the linear response spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of the Rashba spin orbit interaction in the diffusive transport regime. When defect scattering is modeled by isotropic short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron gas with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and smooth edge confinement is studied. We predict that the interplay of semiclassical electron motion and quantum dynamics of spins leads to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 P. G. Silvestrov , V. A. Zyuzin , E. G. Mishchenko

A general expression for the spin Hall conductivity (SHC) in the s-wave superconducting state at finite temperatures is derived. Based on the expression, we study the SHC in a two-dimensional electron gas model in the presence of Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , J. Goryo , D. S. Hirashima

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Spin-charge interconversion is currently the focus of intensive experimental and theoretical research both for its intrinsic interest and for its potential exploitation in the realization of new spintronic functionalities. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi

The spin-Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) generates symmetric out-of-plane spin Sz accumulation about the current axis in the absence of external magnetic field. Here we employ the real space Landauer-Keldysh formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Son-Hsien Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

We study the spin polarization and its associated spin-Hall current due to EDSR in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. We show that the disorder induced damping of the resonant spin polarization can be strongly reduced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss