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In recent years, nonlinear Hall effect has attracted great attention with three different terms contributed by Drude effect, Berry curvature dipole and Berry connection polarizability. In this work, we theoretically predict an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

The spin Hall angle (SHA) is a measure of the efficiency with which a transverse spin current is generated from a charge current by the spin-orbit coupling and disorder in the spin Hall effect (SHE). In a study of the SHE for a Pt$|$Py…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-12 Lei Wang , R. J. H. Wesselink , Yi Liu , Zhe Yuan , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

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

We theoretically investigate a pure spin Hall current driven by a longitudinal temperature gradient, i.e., the spin Nernst effect (SNE), in a paramagnetic state of a collinear antiferromagnetic insulator with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Yinhan Zhang , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

As a non-magnetic heavy metal is attached to a ferromagnet, a vertically flowing heat-driven spin current is converted to a transverse electric voltage, which is known as the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (SSE). If the ferromagnet is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yadong Xu , Bowen Yang , Chi Tang , Zilong Jiang , Michael Schneider , Renu Whig , Jing Shi

Spin Hall effect (SHE) is the generation of spin current due to an electric field, and has been observed in a variety of materials. The analogous spin Hall current can be induced by chemical potential and temperature gradient, both of which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yi Yin

Using the Matsubara Green function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of spin Hall and spin Nernst conductivities of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the linear response regime. In the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

We study theoretically the spin-Hall effect as well as its reciprocal phenomenon (a transverse charge current driven by a spin-dependent chemical potential gradient) in electron and hole finite size mesoscopic systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , Jian Li , Tomas Jungwirth , Qian Niu , Shun-Qing Shen , Jairo Sinova

Electrical currents in a magnetic insulator/heavy metal heterostructure can induce two simultaneous effects, namely, spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) on the heavy metal side and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) on the magnetic insulator side.…

The spin-Hall effect underpins some of the most active topics in modern physics, including spin torques and the inverse spin-Hall effect, yet it lacks a proper theoretical description. This makes it difficult to differentiate the SHE from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Hongyang Ma , James H. Cullen , Serajum Monir , Rajib Rahman , Dimitrie Culcer

Phonons can carry angular momentum and exhibit chirality through the circular polarization of atomic motion. This enables a phonon-mediated spin Seebeck effect (SSE) via the conversion of phonon angular momentum into electron spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiayan Zhang , Gaoyang Li , Gaomin Tang , Yanxia Xing

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

We observe the inverse spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum wells. Specifically, we find that an inhomogeneous spin density induced by the optical injection gives rise an electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baoli Liu , Junren Shi , Wenxin Wang , Hongming Zhao , Dafang Li , Shoucheng Zhang , Qikun Xue , Dongmin Chen

Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the creation of spin currents due to a temperature gradient in the magnetic materials or across magnet-normal metal interfaces, which can be electrically detected through the inverse spin Hall effect…

The Mott relation between the electrical and thermoelectric transport coefficients normally holds for phenomena involving scattering. However, the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in ferromagnets may arise from intrinsic spin-orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Yong Pu , Daichi Chiba , Fumihiro Matsukura , Hideo Ohno , Jing Shi

We analyze thermally induced spin and charge transport in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells on the basis of the numerical non-equilibrium Green's function technique in the linear response regime. In the topologically non-trivial regime, we find a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 D. G. Rothe , E. M. Hankiewicz , B. Trauzettel , M. Guigou

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) is regarded as a promising mechanism for driving neuromorphic behavior in spin-orbitronic devices. In principle, the strong SOT in heavy metal-based magnetic heterostructure is attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tian-Yue Chen , Yu-Chan Hsiao , Wei-Bang Liao , Chi-Feng Pai

The spin current and spin conductivity is computed through thermally driven stochastic process. By evaluating the Kramers equation and with the help of $\vec{k}.\vec{p}$ method we have studied the spin Hall scenario. Due to the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Debashree Chowdhury

We study the spin polarization and its associated spin-Hall current due to EDSR in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. We show that the disorder induced damping of the resonant spin polarization can be strongly reduced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

The spin Hall and longitudinal conductivity of a 2D heavy-hole gas with {\it k}-cubic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied in the ac frequency domain. Using Kubo linear-response theory and a recently proposed definition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles