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Converting charge current into spin current is one of the main mechanisms exploited in spintronics. One prominent example is the Edelstein effect, namely the generation of a magnetization in response to an external electric field, which can…

Spin currents and spin textures are observed in a coherent gas of indirect excitons. Applied magnetic fields bend the spin current trajectories and transform patterns of linear polarization from helical to spiral and patterns of circular…

We consider the combined effects of large spin-orbit couplings and a perpendicular magnetic field in a 2D honeycomb fermionic lattice. This system provides an elegant setup to generate versatile spin textures propagating along the edge of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 N. Goldman , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

Anomalous and spin Hall effects are investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction where the applied voltage produces a Rashba spin-or bit coupling within the tunneling barrier layer. The ferromagnetic electrodes are the source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. V. Vedyayev , M. S. Titova , N. V. Ryzhanova , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , E. Y. Tsymbal

Surface states in Tl/Si(111) and Bi/Si(111) show non-Rashba-type spin splitting. We study spin-transport properties in these surface states. First we construct tight-binding Hamiltonians for Tl/Si and Bi/Si surfaces, which respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Kokin Nakajin , Shuichi Murakami

Helical magnetic background fields with adjustable pitch angle are imposed on a conducting fluid in a differentially rotating cylindrical container. The small-scale kinetic and current helicities are calculated for various field geometries,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Gellert , G. Ruediger , R. Hollerbach

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals are expected to be more sensitive to torque induced by light field since their structure allows both bend and twist in molecular orientations, differently from the conventional cholesterics in which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 G. Nava , F. Ciciulla , O. S. Iadlovska , O. D. Lavrentovich , F. Simoni , L. Lucchetti

We investigate the response of the Rashba spin-orbit system to a time-periodic scalar potential, in order to determine whether an induced magnetization exists. We approach this by employing the Floquet-Green function method within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Malen Etxeberria-Etxaniz , Andrés Arnau , Asier Eiguren

We propose an all-electrical nanoscopic structure where {\em pure} spin current is induced in the transverse voltage probes attached to {\em quantum-coherent} one-dimensional ring when conventional unpolarized charge current is injected…

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

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We demonstrate that the flow of a longitudinal spin current with different spin polarization will induce different patterns of charge accumulation in a two-terminal strip, or electric current distribution in a four-terminal Hall-bar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the magnetic excitation spectrum in the helical state of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with inversion symmetry breaking and strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. For this purpose, we derive the general expressions of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-13 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

Two-dimensional hexagonal and oblique lattices were investigated theoretically with the aim of observing differences in the spin expectation values between chiral and achiral systems. The spinresolved band structures were derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 N. K. Lewis , P. J. Durham , W. R. Flavell , E. A. Seddon

By using the projection operator technique it is observed that the strong Hund's rule coupling and s-d interaction in transition metal elements may lead to an effective coupling between the spin current and spin spirality. As a result, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Q. Shen , X. C. Xie

The broken inversion symmetry at the surface of a metallic film (or, more generally, at the interface between a metallic film and a different metallic or insulating material) greatly amplifies the influence of the spin-orbit interaction on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. V. Tokatly , E. E. Krasovskii , G. Vignale

Efficient manipulation of magnetic order with electric current pulses is desirable for achieving fast spintronic devices. The Rashba-Edelstein effect, wherein a spin polarization is electrically induced in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Leandro Salemi , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

We calculate orbital spin-dependent magnetization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. Such an orbital magnetization is admitted by the time-reversal symmetry of the system, and gives rise to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. Dyrdał , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

We observe and model spin currents arising from chirality and effective spin-exchange interactions in a weakly interacting $^6$Li Fermi gas. Chirality is introduced by a static displacement between the center of the trapped atoms and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Camen A. Royse , J. E. Thomas