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We investigate torque and also conventionally defined spin-Hall currents in two-dimensional (2D) spin-orbit coupled systems of spin-1/2 particles within the linear response Kubo formalism. We obtain some interesting relations between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Tsung-Wei Chen , Guang-Yu Guo

We study the effect of spin-orbit interaction and in-plane effective magnetic field on the conductance of a quasi-one-dimensional ballistic electron system. The effective magnetic field includes the externally applied field, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yuriy V. Pershin , James A. Nesteroff , Vladimir Privman

Using the recently proposed definition of a conserved spin-current operator [J. Shi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 076604 (2006)] we explore the frequency dependent spin Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arturo Wong , Jesus A. Maytorena , Catalina Lopez-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

We report on a comparative numerical study of the spin Hall conductivity in two-dimensions for three different spin-orbit interaction models; the standard k-linear Rashba model, the k-cubic Rashba model that describes two-dimensional hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , Jairo Sinova , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. H. MacDonald

We discuss the orbital magnetism and the Hall effect in the weak magnetic field in two dimensional Dirac fermion systems with energy gap. This model is related to the graphene sheet, organic conductors, and $d$-density wave superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-06 Masaaki Nakamura

The spin Hall effect in two dimensional hole systems is studied by using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula with the help of Green functions. The spin Hall effect exists even when there are {\em not} any correlations between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

The charge and spin Hall conductance of the two-dimensional hole gas within the Luttinger model with and without inversion symmetry breaking terms in a perpendicular magnetic field are studied, and two key phenomena are predicted. The sign…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tianxing Ma , Qin Liu

Current induced magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques offers an energy-efficient means of writing information in heavy metal/ferromagnet (FM) multilayer systems. The relative contributions of field-like torques and damping-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Meiyin Yang , Kaiming Cai , Hailang Ju , Kevin William Edmonds , Guang Yang , Shuai Liu , Baohe Li , Bao Zhang , Yu Sheng , Shouguo Wang , Yang Ji , Kaiyou Wang

The spin Hall effect is investigated in a two-orbital tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. We show that the model exhibits three topologically-different insulating phases at half filling, which are distinguished by different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-15 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yukitoshi Motome

We study the local equilibrium properties of two-dimensional electron gases at high magnetic fields in the presence of random smooth electrostatic disorder, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman interaction. Using a systematic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Daniel Hernangomez-Perez , Serge Florens , Thierry Champel

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

Within the Kubo formalism, we estimate the spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and study its variation as a function of disorder strength and system size. The numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

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

In this work, we study the spin Hall effect and Rashba-Edelstein effect of a 2D Weyl fermion system in the clean limit using the Kubo formalism. Spin transport is solely due to the spin-torque current in this strongly spin-orbit coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 T. Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

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 provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

Using four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism and Green's function technique, in this present paper, we calculate numerically spin Hall conductance (SHC) and longitudinal conductance of a finite size kagome lattice with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar