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We propose fractional spin hall effect (FSHE) by coupling pseudospin states of cold bosonic atoms to optical fields. The present scheme is an extension to interacting bosonic system of the recent work \cite{liu,zhu} on optically induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 Xiong-Jun Liu , Xin Liu , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We exploit the analogy with the quantum Hall (QH) effect for electrons to study the possible atomic QH states of a rapidly-rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. Actually, there is a nearly perfect map of the present problem in the QH regime to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeng-Bing Chen , Bo Zhao , Yong-De Zhang

Cold atomic gases of interacting bosons subject to rapid rotation and confined in anharmonic traps can theoretically exhibit analogues of the fractional quantum Hall effect for electrons in strong magnetic fields. In this setting the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

Previously, it has been shown that rapid cooling of yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) nano structures, preheated by an electric current sent through the Pt layer, leads to overpopulation of a magnon gas and to subsequent formation of…

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

A self-consistent treatment of the spin-Hall effect requires consideration of the spin-orbit coupling and electron-impurity scattering on equal footing. This is done here for the experimentally relevant case of a [110] GaAs quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , M. Flatte

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), a hallmark of topological insulators, enables dissipationless, spin-polarized edge transport and has been predicted in various two-dimensional materials. However, challenges such as limited scalability,…

The intrinsic spin-Hall effects (SHE) in $p$-doped semiconductors [S. Murakami et al., Science 301, 1348 (2003)] and two-dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling [J. Sinova et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 126603 (2004)] have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

We predict the very large spin Hall effect in type-II superconductors which mechanism is drastically different from the previously known ones. We find that in the flux-flow regime the spin is transported by the spin-polarized Abrikosov…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-12 Artjom Vargunin , Mikhail Silaev

The spin Hall effect (SHE) generates spin currents within nonmagnetic materials. Previously, studies of the SHE have been motivated primarily to understand its fundamental origin and magnitude. Here we demonstrate, using measurement and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Luqiao Liu , O. J. Lee , T. J. Gudmundsen , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Recent theory predicted that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a fundamentally novel quantum state of matter that exists at zero external magnetic field, may be realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells. We have fabricated such sample structures…

The spin Hall effect (SHE), in which electrical current generates transverse spin current, plays an important role in spintronics for the generation and manipulation of spin-polarized electrons. The phenomenon originates from spin-orbit…

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

The spin Hall effect (SHE), induced by spin-orbit interaction in nonmagnetic materials, is one of the promising phenomena for conversion between charge and spin currents in spintronic devices. The spin Hall (SH) angle is the characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Y. Niimi , H. Suzuki , Y. Kawanishi , Y. Omori , T. Valet , A. Fert , Y. Otani

We analyze the effect known as "spin current swapping" (SCS) due to electron-impurity scattering in a uniform spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas. In this effect a primary spin current $J_i^a$ (lower index for spatial direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ka Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

We show that an electric field parallel to the wavefronts of an electron-hole grating in a GaAs quantum well generates, via the electronic spin Hall effect, a spin grating of the same wave vector and with an amplitude that can exceed 1% of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ka Shen , G. Vignale

We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

We report observation of intrinsic inverse spin Hall effect in un-doped GaAs multiple quantum wells with a sample temperature of 10 K. A transient ballistic pure spin current is injected by a pair of laser pulses through quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Lalani K. Werake , Brian A. Ruzicka , Hui Zhao

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