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A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. O. Pauyac , M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , S. A. Nikolaev

Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yu-Hsuan Lin , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira , Miguel A. Cazalilla

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

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

A two dimensional hopping system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered. Our main interest is concerned with the evolution of the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. We derive the rate equations governing the evolution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Damker , H. Boettger , V. V. Bryksin

The current-induced spin polarization and momentum-dependent spin-orbit field were measured in In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As epilayers with varying indium concentrations and silicon doping densities. Samples with higher indium concentrations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Luengo-Kovac , S. Huang , D. Del Gaudio , J. Occena , R. S. Goldman , R. Raimondi , V. Sih

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

We investigate the spin-current absorption induced by an inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling due to impurities in metals. We consider the system with spin currents driven by the electric field or the spin accumulation. The resulting diffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Kazuhiro Hosono , Takehito Yokoyama

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

Spin-orbit interactions in two-dimensional electron liquids are responsible for many interesting transport phenomena in which particle currents are converted to spin polarizations and spin currents and viceversa. Prime examples are the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

We present the analytical result of the expectation value of spin resulting from an injected spin polarized electron into a semi-infinitely extended 2DEG plane with [001] growth geometry via ideal quantum point contact. Both the Rashba and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang , Son-Hsien Chen

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

We derive the transport equations for two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction and short-range spin-independent disorder. In the limit of slow spatial variations of the electron distribution we obtain coupled diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

We studied the electric current induced in a two-dimensional electron gas by the spin current, in the presence of Rashba and cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We found out that the factor relating these currents is not universal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Y. Wang , A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Cosimo Gorini , Amin Maleki , Ka Shen , Ilya V. Tokatly , Giovanni Vignale , Roberto Raimondi

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

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao