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We study the coupled dynamics of spin and charge currents in a two-dimensional electron gas in the transport diffusive regime. For systems with inversion symmetry there are established relations between the spin Hall effect, the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi , C. Gorini

We study the spin Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a magnetic field and both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We show that the value of the spin Hall conductivity, which is finite only if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lucignano , R. Raimondi , A. Tagliacozzo

Based on a rigorous quantum-kinetic approach, spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations are derived for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas. An electric field leads to a coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

Spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors relates the spin of an electron to its momentum and provides a pathway for electrically initializing and manipulating electron spins for applications in spintronics and spin-based quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Sih , R. C. Myers , Y. K. Kato , W. H. Lau , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

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

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

We propose a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system in which an external magnetic (B) field with a small chirality is applied to provide a topological U(1) U(1) gauge field that separates conduction electrons of opposite spins in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. G. Tan , M. B. A. Jalil , Xiong-Jun Liu , Takashi Fujita

Coupling of spin states and space motion of conduction electrons due to spin-orbit interaction opens up possibilities for manipulation of the electron spins by electrical means. It is shown here that spin orientation of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko

We propose a mechanism of spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas with spatially random Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The calculations based on the Kubo formalism and kinetic equation show that in contrast to the constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium 2D homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Peter Bokes , Frantisek Horvath

Spin-orbit interaction is usefully classified as extrinsic or intrinsic depending on its origin: the potential due to random impurities (extrinsic), or the crystalline potential associated with the band or device structure (intrinsic). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab , C. Gorini , G. Vignale

It is shown that the interplay of long-range disorder and in-plane magnetic field gives rise to an out-of-plane spin polarization and a finite spin Hall conductivity of the two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Milletari' , R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

The spin Hall effect is investigated in a high mobility two dimensional electron system with the spin-orbital coupling of both the Rashba and the Dresselhaus types. A spin current perpendicular to the electric field is generated by either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen

A brief review is given on the spin Hall effect, where an external electric field induces a transverse spin current. It has been recognized over 30 years that such effect occurs due to impurities in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Murakami

We show that pure spin Hall current, flowing out of a four-terminal phase-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within inversion asymmetric semiconductor heterostructure, contains contributions from both the extrinsic mechanisms…

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

The charge and spin Hall conductance of the two-dimensional hole gas within the Luttinger model with and without inversion symmetry breaking terms in a perpendicular magnetic field are studied, and two key phenomena are predicted. The sign…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tianxing Ma , Qin Liu

We calculate spin Hall conductivities in the two dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The salient feature is that, apart from the usual spin-Hall conductivity \sigma^z_{xy} which corresponds to the induction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ankur Sensharma , Sudhansu S. Mandal

A curved two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions due to the radial confinement asymmetry is considered. At certain relation between the spin-orbit coupling strength and curvature radius the tangential component of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

We have studied transport properties in a two-dimensional electron gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under a perpendicular magnetic field. By employing the exact solution for this system, we found resonant charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Degang Zhang , Yao-Ming Mu , C. S. Ting

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro
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