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It is argued that experiments on rotating superconductors provide evidence for the existence of macroscopic spin currents in superconductors in the absence of applied external fields. Furthermore it is shown that the model of hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Hirsch

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

We present an extension of the relativistic electron transport theory for the standard (charge) conductivity tensor of random alloys within the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method to the so-called spin-dependent conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-18 Ilja Turek , Josef Kudrnovsky , Vaclav Drchal

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Resonant behavior involving spin-orbit entangled states occurs for spin transport along a narrow channel defined in a two-dimensional electron gas, including an apparent rapid relaxation of the spin polarization for special values of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 D. H. Berman , M. Khodas , M. E. Flatté

We propose a time-reversal-even spin generation in second order of electric fields, which dominates the current induced spin polarization in a wide class of centrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and leads to a novel nonlinear spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Cong Xiao , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaolong Feng , Huiying Liu , Guang-Yu Guo , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

An oscillographic study of the Hall voltage with an unpolarized alternating current through a platinum sample revealed choral features of the Hall effect, which clearly demonstrate the presence of the spin Hall effect in metals with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

A vital goal in spintronics is the efficient electrical generation of spin currents, a pursuit that has recently focused on using antiferromagnets (AFMs) as spin current sources. It has been demonstrated that antiferromagnets with broken PT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Meng Zhu , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Jiahao Shentu , Yizhuo Song , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

A one dimensional theory of lateral spin-polarized transport is derived from the two dimensional flow in the vertical cross section of a stack of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic layers. This takes into account the influence of the lead on…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 H. Dery , L. Cywinski , L. J. Sham

Proposing a general formulism in terms of local coordinates representing the tilting of the ligands' octahedra, we evaluate the electric polarization in a chain of transition metal ions with unpolar octahedron rotation. We find the orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Shan Zhu , You-Quan Li

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

Motivated by recent interest in novel spintronics effects, we develop a semiclassical theory of spin transport that is valid for spin-orbit coupled bands. Aside from the obvious convective term in which the average spin is transported at…

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

Charge-spin conversion phenomena such as the spin Hall effect allow for the excitation of magnons in a magnetic layer by passing an electric current in an adjacent nonmagnetic conductor. We demonstrate that this current-induced modification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Paul Noël , Richard Schlitz , Emir Karadža , Charles-Henri Lambert , Luca Nessi , Federico Binda , Pietro Gambardella

Noncollinear antiferromagnets, such as Mn$_3$Sn and Mn$_3$Ir, were recently shown to be analogous to ferromagnets in that they have a large anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that these materials are similar to ferromagnets in another…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Jakub Zelezny , Yang Zhang , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

Spin currents that flow perpendicular to the electric field direction are generic in metals and doped semiconductors with spin-orbit coupling. It has recently been argued that the spin Hall conductivity can be dominated by an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nomura , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth , Q. Niu , A. H. MacDonald

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Symmetry formulated by group theory plays an essential role with respect to the laws of nature, from fundamental particles to condensed matter systems. Here, by combining symmetry analysis and tight-binding model calculations, we elucidate…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Pengfei Liu , Jiayu Li , Jingzhi Han , Xiangang Wan , Qihang Liu

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

In spin-polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin-charge coupling. The current conversion between the minority (as referred to carriers and not spin) and majority carriers leads to novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic