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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…
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This is comment to preprint arXiv:1409.7459 by Y. Tada, Wenxing Nie and M. Oshikawa "Orbital angular momentum and spectral flow in two dimensional chiral superfluids", where the effect of spectral flow along the edge states on the magnitude…
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