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The spin-orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. Accordingly, passing a current in a material with strong spin-orbit coupling generates a transverse spin current (spin Hall effect, SHE) and vice-versa (inverse spin…

We investigate the efficiency of charge-to-spin conversion in two-dimensional Rashba altermagnets, a class of materials that merge characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Utilizing quantum linear response theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weiwei Chen , Longhai Zeng , W. Zhu

We report experimental investigations of spin-to-charge current conversion and charge transfer dynamics (CT) at the interface of graphene/WS$_2$ van der Waals heterostructure. Pure spin current was produced by the spin precession in the…

Using the Green function formalism we calculate a current-induced spin polarization of weakly magnetized graphene with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In a general case, all components of the current-induced spin polarization are nonzero,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

A normal metallic film sandwiched between two insulators may have strong spin-orbit coupling near the metal-insulator interfaces, even if spin-orbit coupling is negligible in the bulk of the film. In this paper we study two technologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Borge , C. Gorini , G. Vignale , R. Raimondi

We propose an experimental realization of the Spin Hall effect in graphene by illuminating a graphene sheet on top of a substrate with circularly polarized monochromatic light. The substrate induces a controllable Rashba type spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alexander Lopez , Rafael Molina

We consider a straight one-dimensional potential step created across a graphene flake. Charge and spin transport through such a potential step are studied in the presence of both intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ai Yamakage , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Jérôme Cayssol , Yoshio Kuramoto

Graphene is an excellent material for long distance spin transport but allows little spin manipulation. Transition metal dichalcogenides imprint their strong spin-orbit coupling into graphene via proximity effect, and it has been predicted…

The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

A two dimensional hopping system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered. Our main interest is concerned with the evolution of the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. We derive the rate equations governing the evolution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Damker , H. Boettger , V. V. Bryksin

Spin-charge conversion by inverse spin Hall effect or inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect is prevalent in spintronics but dissipative. We propose a dissipationless spin-charge conversion mechanism by an excitonic pseudospin superfluid in an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-10 Yeyang Zhang , Ryuichi Shindou

We investigate numerically the spin polarization of the current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a T-shaped conductor proposed by A.A. Kiselev and K.W. Kim (Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 78} 775 (2001)). The recursive Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , B. Kramer

Establishing the conditions under which orbital, spin and lattice-pseudospin degrees of freedom are mutually coupled in realistic nonequilibrium conditions is a major goal in the emergent field of graphene spintronics. Here, we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Aires Ferreira

We investigate the inverse Edelstein effect in a non-homogeneous system consisting of a ferromagnetic layer coupled to a Rashba two-dimensional electron gas. Within a semiclassical Boltzmann framework, we derive analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

We investigate the spin diffusion and transport in a graphene monolayer on SiO$_2$ substrate by means of the microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The substrate causes a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling field $\sim 0.15$ meV,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-07 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Several spin-orbit effects allow performing spin to charge inter-conversion: the spin Hall effects, the Rashba effect, or the spin-momentum locking in topological insulators. Here we focus on how the detection of this inter-conversion can…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-18 V. T. Pham , L. Vila , G. Zahnd , P. Noël , A. Marty , J. P. Attané

Rashba effect describes how electrons moving in an electric field experience a momentum dependent magnetic field that couples to the electron angular momentum (spin). This physical phenomenon permits the generation of spin polarization from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Florent Auvray , Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Bivas Rana , Daisuke Hashizume , Yoshichika Otani

We consider a disordered graphene layer with anisotropic Rashba spin-orbit coupling subjected to a longitudinal electric field. Using the linear response theory we calculate current-induced spin polarization including in-plane normal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Mir Vahid Hosseini

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

Spin dependent transport in a three-terminal graphene nanoribbon (GNR) is investigated in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Such a three-terminal structure is shown to be highly effective in filtering electron spins from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti