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We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

We performed photoinduced inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) measurements on a Pt/Ge(001) junction at room temperature. The spin-oriented electrons, photogenerated at the direct gap of Ge using circularly polarized light, provide a net spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Bottegoni , Alberto Ferrari , Stefano Cecchi , Marco Finazzi , Franco Ciccacci , Giovanni Isella

Electronic properties like current flow are generally independent of the electron's spin angular momentum, an internal degree of freedom present in quantum particles. The spin Hall effects (SHEs), first proposed 40 years ago, are an unusual…

We construct a model of spin-Hall effect on a noncommutative 4 sphere with isospin degrees of freedom (coming from a noncommutative instanton) and invariance under a quantum orthogonal group. The corresponding representation theory allows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanni Landi

To date, optical orientation of free-carrier spins and spin currents have been achieved by circularly polarized light, while the linearly polarized light has been used for optical alignment of electron momenta. Here we show that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko , E. L. Ivchenko

The effect of spin-orbit interaction on electron transport properties of a cross-junction structure is studied. It is shown that it results in spin polarization of left and right outgoing electron waves. Consequently, incoming electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. N. Bulgakov , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Sadreev , P. Středa , P. Šeba

In this work, we summarize the current state of understanding of lateral displacement and angular deviations of an optical beam propagating through dielectric blocks. In part I, the analytical formulas, found for critical incidence, are…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-19 Steafno De Leo , Gabriel G. Maia

We demonstrate theoretically that a coherent manipulation of electron spins in low-dimensional semiconductor structures with spin-orbit coupling by infrared radiation is possible. The proposed approach is based on using a dipole force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 E. Ya. Sherman , J. G. Muga , V. K. Dugaev , A. Ruschhaupt

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

A self-consistent treatment of the spin-Hall effect requires consideration of the spin-orbit coupling and electron-impurity scattering on equal footing. This is done here for the experimentally relevant case of a [110] GaAs quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , M. Flatte

We investigate the spin Hall effect in a single-layer graphene device with disorder and interface-induced spin-orbit coupling. Our graphene device is connected to four semi-infinite leads that are embedded in a {Landauer-B\"uttiker} setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Juliana M. da Silva , Fernando A. F. Santana , Jorge G. G. S. Ramos , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

Recent advancement in laser technology has opened the path toward the manipulation of functionalities in quantum materials by intense coherent light. Here, we study three-dimensional (3D) Dirac electrons driven by circularly polarized light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Yoshua Hirai , Naotaka Yoshikawa , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi , Shun Okumura , Takashi Oka , Ryo Shimano

We consider the relativistic deformation of quantum waves and mechanical bodies carrying intrinsic angular momentum (AM). When observed in a moving reference frame, the centroid of the object undergoes an AM-dependent transverse shift. This…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

We predict theoretically that, when a normal metallic thin film (without bulk spin-orbit coupling, such as Cu or Al) is sandwiched by two insulators, two prominent effects arise due to the interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a giant spin-Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Xuhui Wang , Jiang Xiao , Aurelien Manchon , Sadamichi Maekawa

We reveal an enhanced and switchable spin Hall effect (SHE) of light near Brewster angle on reflection both theoretically and experimentally. The obtained spin-dependent splitting reaches 3200nm near Brewster angle, 50 times larger than the…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-21 Hailu Luo , Xinxing Zhou , Weixing Shu , Shuangchun Wen , Dianyuan Fan

We report on the experimental observation of the non-linear analogue of the optical spin Hall effect under highly non-resonant circularly polarized excitation of an exciton polariton condensate in a GaAs/AlGaAs microcavity. Initially…

Hirsch (1999) proposed a mechanism and geometry for the observation of the spin-Hall effect. In this work, we present a novel realization of the Hirsch geometry in a platinum (Pt) nanostructure, which is an increasingly important material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Koong Chee Weng , N. Chandrasekhar , Christian Miniatura , Berthold-Georg Englert

We show, both theoretically and experimentally, that high-numerical-aperture (NA) optical microscopy is accompanied by strong spin-orbit interaction of light, which translates fine infomation about the specimen to the polarization degrees…

In the quantum anomalous Hall effect, chiral edge modes are expected to conduct spin polarized current without dissipation and thus hold great promise for future electronics and spintronics with low energy consumption. However, spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Rui-Xing Zhang , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Chao-Xing Liu

Tunable directional scattering is of paramount importance for operation of antennas, routing of light, and design of topologically protected optical states. For visible light scattered on a nanoparticle the directionality could be provided…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-23 A. V. Poshakinskiy , A. N. Poddubny