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In disordered systems, the hopping conductivity regime is usually realized at low temperatures where spin-related phenomena differ strongly from the case of delocalized carriers. We develop the unified microscopic theory of current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 D. S. Smirnov , L. E. Golub

We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

Spin polarization induced by a temperature gradient (heat-current) in a magnetized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically within the linear response theory. Using the Matsubara…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

We demonstrate that the flow of a longitudinal spin current with different spin polarization will induce different patterns of charge accumulation in a two-terminal strip, or electric current distribution in a four-terminal Hall-bar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

Using the Matsubara Green's function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of the nonequilibrium spin polarization induced by an external electric field in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. The model Hamiltonian includes an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 L. Karwacki , A. Dyrdal , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Rigorous coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived from quantum-kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix that incorporate effects due to k-linear spin-orbit interaction, an in-plane electric field, and the elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

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 show that electron tunneling from edge states in two-dimensional topological insulator into a parallel electron waveguide leads to the appearance of spin-polarized current in the waveguide. The spin polarization $P$ can be very close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov

The non-linear transport of charge and spin due to the emergence of band geometric effects has garnered much interest in recent years. In this work, we show that a linear in-plane spin current vanishes, whereas a non-linear (second-order)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Srijan Chatterjee , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We study theoretically the disorder-induced smearing of the density of states in a two-dimensional electron system taking into account a spin-orbit term in the Hamiltonian of a free electron. We show that the characteristic energy scale for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. G. Galstyan , M. E. Raikh

Universal properties of spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron systems are addressed. The net spin polarization across the edge of the conductor is second order, ~\lambda^2, in spin-orbit coupling constant independent of the form of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 V. A. Zyuzin , P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

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

Spin transport phenomena in solid materials suffer limitations from spin relaxation associated to disorder or lack of translational invariance. Ultracold atoms, free of that disorder, can provide a platform to observe phenomena beyond the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-26 Iryna Miatka , Marco Barbieri , Roberto Raimondi

We consider a disordered graphene layer with anisotropic Rashba spin-orbit coupling subjected to a longitudinal electric field. Using the linear response theory we calculate current-induced spin polarization including in-plane normal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Mir Vahid Hosseini

We consider spin-vorticity coupling - the generation of spin polarization by vorticity - in viscous two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling. We first derive hydrodynamic equations for spin and momentum densities in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Ruben J. Doornenbal , Marco Polini , R. A. Duine

It is shown that the spin Hall current generates a non-equilibrium spin polarization in the interior of crystals with reduced symmetry in a way that is drastically different from the previously well-known equilibrium polarization during the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. L. Korenev

We have described electron spin dynamics in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. Exact solution is obtained for an arbitrary 2D spin-orbit Hamiltonian and arbitrary smoothness of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

We analyze electron spin relaxation in electronic transport through coherently coupled double quantum dots in the spin blockade regime. In particular, we focus on hyperfine interaction as the spin relaxation mechanism. We pay special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carlos López-Monís , Jesús Iñarrea , Gloria Platero