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We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

We study spin and charge diffusion in metallic-ferromagnet/topological-insulator junctions. The coupled diffusion equations are derived perturbatively with respect to the strength of the interlayer tunneling. We calculate spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takehito Yokoyama , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Rashba spin orbit torque derived from the broken inversion symmetry at ferromagnet/heavy metal interfaces has potential application in spintronic devices. In conventional description of the precessional and damping components of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 D. Wang , Yan Zhou

The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

Spin-dependent transport is investigated in ballistic regime through the interface between a ferromagnet and a spin spiral. We show that spin-dependent interferences lead to a new type of diffraction called "spin-diffraction". It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aurélien Manchon , Natalya Ryzhanova , A. Vedyayev , Bernard Dieny

Spin accumulation and spin transfer torques induced by Spin Hall Effect in bi-layer structures comprising ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials are theoretically investigated. The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. Vedyayev , N. Strelkov , M. Chshiev , N. Ryzhanova , B. Dieny

We present the calculation of the density matrix response function of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which is applicable in a wide range of parameters covering the diffusive and non-diffusive, the dirty…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pletyukhov

We have developed a drift-diffusion equation of spin transport in collinear bipartite metallic antiferromagnets. Starting from a model tight-binding Hamiltonian, we obtain the quantum kinetic equation within Keldysh formalism and expand it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 A. Manchon

We show theoretically that conversion between spin and charge by spin-orbit interaction in metals occurs even in a non-local setup where magnetization and spin-orbit interaction are spatially separated if electron diffusion is taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Junji Fujimoto , Gen Tatara

Quantum drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. The (formal) derivation turns out to be a non-standard application of the usual mathematical tools, such as Wigner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Luigi Barletti , Philipp Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel

We consider a helical system of fermions with a generic spin (or pseudospin) orbit coupling. Using the equation of motion approach for the single-particle distribution functions, and a mean-field decoupling of the higher order distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-13 Moslem Mir , Saeed H. Abedinpour

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

We study the spatial distribution of spin torque induced by a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) in a ferromagnetic (FM) metal layer, using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function method. In the presence of the s-d interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 N. L. Chung , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

We examine a spin torque induced by the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in three dimensions within the Boltzmann transport theory. We analytically calculate the spin torque and show how its behavior is related with the spin topology in the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Shuichi Murakami

In 1984, Bychkov and Rashba introduced a simple form of spin-orbit coupling to explain certain peculiarities in the electron spin resonance of two-dimensional semiconductors. Over the past thirty years, similar ideas have been leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 A. Manchon , H. C. Koo , J. Nitta , S. M. Frolov , R. A. Duine

We apply the Wigner function formalism to derive drift-diffusion transport equations for spin-polarized electrons in a III-V semiconductor single quantum well. Electron spin dynamics is controlled by the linear in momentum spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Semion Saikin

We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Thomas Stibius Jensen , Niels Asger Mortensen

We introduce the general formalism to describe spin torques induced by the supercurrents injected from the adjacent superconducting electrodes into the spin-textured ferromagnets. By considering the adiabatic limit for the equal-spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-28 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

The movement of the electrons under the simultaneous influence of a scalar periodic potential and of a uniform transversal magnetic field is described by the well-known second order discrete Harper equation. This equation originates from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-19 O. Borchin , E. Papp