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Intrinsic spin currents are encountered in noncentrosymmetric crystals without any external electric fields; these currents are caused by spin-orbit interaction. In this paper, various theoretical aspects of this phenomenon in bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-11 Ilja Turek

The impact of an external electric field on the spin relaxation in a disordered two-dimensional electron system is studied within the framework of a field-theoretical formulation. Generalized Bloch-equations for the diffusion and the decay…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Bleibaum

Spin relaxation can be greatly enhanced in narrow channels of two-dimensional electron gas due to ballistic spin resonance, which is mediated by spin-orbit interaction for trajectories that bounce rapidly between channel walls. The channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 W. W. Yu , S. M. Frolov , S. Luescher , J. A. Folk , W. Wegscheider

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in 2DEG Rashba system is considered, in which the spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is modulated by an ac gate voltage. By using non-Abelian gauge field method, we show the presence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

It is often assumed that in a superconductor without spin-triplet pairing, the formation of unconventional spin-triplet densities requires the spin-orbit interaction in combination with either broken inversion symmetry or broken…

Spin torque oscillators are spintronic devices that generate a periodic output signal from a non-periodic input, making them promising candidates for applications like microwave communications and neuromorphic computing. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Daniel Kubler , David A. Smith , Tommy Nguyen , Fernando Ramos-Diaz , Satoru Emori , Vivek P. Amin

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

Aiming to understand the main spin relaxation mechanism in graphene, we investigate the spin relaxation with random Rashba field induced by both adatoms and substrate, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

We generalize magnetoelectronic circuit theory to account for spin transfer to and from the atomic lattice via interfacial spin-orbit coupling. This enables a proper treatment of spin transport at interfaces between a ferromagnet and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Theoretical investigations of spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions using the tight-binding model in the framework of non-equilibrium Green functions formalism are presented. We show that the behavior of the spin transfer torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Chshiev , I. Theodonis , A. Kalitsov , N. Kioussis , W. H. Butler

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

We explore the nonreciprocity of spin-wave excitations in the Rashba-Hubbard ferromagnet on a square lattice. Our study reveals that the propagation of spin-wave excitations exhibit non-reciprocal behavior, i.e., spin waves traveling in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Aastha Jain , Dheeraj Kumar Singh

Motivated by recent experimental studies of thin-film devices containing a single ferromagnetic layer, we develop a quantum kinetic theory of current-induced magnetic torques in Rashba-model ferromagnets. We find that current-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

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

Within the s-d model description, we derive the current-driven spin torque in a ferromagnet, taking explicitly into account a spin-relaxing Caldeira-Leggett bath coupling to the s-electrons. We derive Bloch-Redfield equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Thorwart , R. Egger

We consider a single-level quantum dot coupled to two leads which are ferromagnetic in general. Apart from tunneling processes conserving electron spin, we also include processes associated with spin-flip of tunneling electrons, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Łukasz Karwacki , Józef Barnaś

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

Spin accumulation in a 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction subject to an electric field can take place without bulk spin currents (edge spin Hall effect). This is demonstrated for the collisional regime using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. B. Sonin