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It is a conventional wisdom that the helical edge states of quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator are particularly stable due to the topological protection of time-reversal symmetry. Here, we report the first experimental observation of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) has formed the seed for contemporary research on topological quantum states of matter. Since its discovery in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells and AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures, all such systems have so far been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 Gang Li , Werner Hanke , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Felix Reis , Joerg Schaefer , Ralph Claessen , Congjun Wu , Ronny Thomale

We study intrinsic spin Hall effect in p-type GaAs quantum well structure described by Luttinger Hamiltonian and a Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from the structural inversion symmetry breaking. The Rashba term induces an energy level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Yu-Gui Yao , Fu-Chun Zhang

Despite the rapid progresses in the field of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, most of the QSH systems studied up to now are based on crystalline materials. Here we propose that the QSH effect can be realized in quasicrystal lattices (QLs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Huaqing Huang , Feng Liu

The field of topological insulators (TIs) is rapidly growing. Concerning possible applications, the search for materials with an easily controllable TI phase is a key issue. The quantum spin Hall effect, characterized by a single pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Paolo Michetti , Jan C. Budich , Elena G. Novik , Patrik Recher

The generation and manipulation of carrier spin polarization in semiconductors solely by electric fields has garnered significant attention as both an interesting manifestation of spin-orbit physics as well as a valuable capability for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-03 N. P. Stern , D. W. Steuerman , S. Mack , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

An intriguing observation on the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is the dissipative edge states, where quantized Hall resistance is accompanied by nonzero longitudinal resistance. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yanxia Xing , Fuming Xu , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Yu-gui Yao

The controlled generation of localized spin densities is a key enabler of semiconductor spintronics In this work, we study spin Hall effect induced edge spin accumulation in a two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin orbit interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , B. Kaestner , A. H. MacDonald , T. Jungwirth

We predict that unpolarized charge current driven through the longitudinal leads attached to ballistic quantum-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in semiconductor heterostructure will induce a {\em pure} spin current, which is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

Using circularly polarized light is an alternative to electronic ways for spin injection into materials. Spins are injected at a point of the light illumination, and then diffuse and spread radially due to the in-plane gradient of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Di Fan , Rei Hobara , Ryota Akiyama , Shuji Hasegawa

Electrical currents in a magnetic insulator/heavy metal heterostructure can induce two simultaneous effects, namely, spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) on the heavy metal side and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) on the magnetic insulator side.…

The spin Hall effect in nonmagnetic materials has been intensively studied and became one of the most crucial spin-charge conversion mechanism in spintronics. However, the spin Hall effect in ferromagnetic metals has been less investigated…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Fanxing Zheng , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Meng Zhu , Ye Zhou , Jia Zhang

Quantum spin Hall insulators, recently realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells, support topologically protected, linearly dispersing edge states with spin-momentum locking. A local magnetic exchange field can open a gap for the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Carsten Timm

The spin-orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. Accordingly, passing a current in a material with strong spin-orbit coupling generates a transverse spin current (spin Hall effect, SHE) and vice-versa (inverse spin…

Drude weight, historically associated with the longitudinal Drude conductivity, can be generalized to describe the transverse or Hall component of the extrinsic conductivity tensor. In particular, transverse Drude weights, such as band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) structures has great potential for various polarization-sensitive applications and devices. Here, using optical weak measurement, we observe spin-dependent and…

Bismuth is an archetypal semimetal with gigantic spin-orbit coupling and it has been a major source material for the discovery of seminal phenomena in solid state physics for more than a century. In recent years, spin current transports in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Guang-Yu Guo

We present the first findings of the spin transistor effect in the Rashba gate-controlled ring embedded in the p-type self-assembled silicon quantum well that is prepared on the n-type Si (100) surface. The coherence and phase sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , W. Gehlhoff , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , I. A. Shelykh

Landau level (LL) engineered photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) holds great promise for nanoscale manipulation and steering of magneto-optical transport in two-dimensional atomic systems. Herein, we theoretically investigate PSHE modulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Qiaoyun Ma , Hui Dou , Yiting Chen , Guangyi Jia , Xinxing Zhou