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Based on the Keldysh formalism, the Boltzmann kinetic equation and the drift diffusion equation have been derived for studying spin polarization flow and spin accumulation under effect of the time dependent Rashba spin-orbit interaction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Tang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

Recent findings in orbitronics pointed out large current-induced torques originating, in the current understanding, from incident orbital currents. These are generated by orbital Rashba-Edelstein effect (OREE) produced at the interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-20 B. Bony , S. Krishnia , Y. Xu , S. Collin , A. Fert , J. -M. George , M. Viret , V. Cros , H. Jaffrès

Efficient generation of spin polarization is the central focus of spintronics. In magnetic materials, spin currents can arise from heat currents by the conventional spin Seebeck effect. Recently, chiral phonons with definite handedness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Xiao Li , Jinxin Zhong , Jinluo Cheng , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Jun Zhou

We analyze the contribution of the inhomogeneous magnetic field induced by an electrical current to the spin Hall effect in metals. The Zeeman coupling between the field and the electron spin leads to a spin dependent force, and to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Hernando , F. Guinea , M. A. Garcia

Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Fransson

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

For the technologically relevant spin Hall effect most theoretical approaches rely on the evaluation of the spin-conductivity tensor. In contrast, for most experimental configurations the generation of spin accumulation at interfaces and…

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

It is well assessed that the charge transport through a chiral potential barrier can result in spin-polarized charges. The possibility of driving this process through visible photons holds tremendous potential for several aspects of quantum…

Chirality induced spin selectivity, discovered about two decades ago in helical molecules, is a non-equilibrium effect that emerges from the interplay between geometrical helicity and spin-orbit interactions. Several model Hamiltonians…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 J. Fransson

We propose a mechanism of current-induced phonon angular momentum, which we call phonon Edelstein effect. We investigate this effect in three-dimensional chiral metals with spin-orbit coupling and chiral phonons, and obtain an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

Chirality is a fundamental property of great importance in physics, chemistry, and biology, and has recently been found to generate unexpected spin polarization for electrons passing through organic molecules, known as chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Qun Yang , Yongkang Li , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

The Edelstein effect is the origin of the spin-orbit torque: a current-induced torque that is used for the electrical control of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials. This effect originates from the relativistic spin-orbit…

In materials with spin-momentum locked spin textures, such as Rashba states and topological surface states, the current-induced shift of the Fermi contour in the k space leads to spin polarization, known as the Edelstein effect, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xing-Guo Ye , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

We predict the existence of chiral spin waves collective modes in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid with the Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. Starting from the phenomenological Landau theory, we show that the long-wavelength dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ali Ashrafi , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis, for the currents of charge and chirality, when there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Generating and controlling spin current (SC) are of central interest in spin physics and applications. To date, the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is an established pathway to generate SC through the spin-charge current conversion. We predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-12 Ruixiang Fei , Shuaiqin Yu , Yan Lu , Linghan Zhu , Li Yang

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a spin-splitting phenomenon from a helical structure with a considerably effective spin-orbit coupling. This unexpectedly large spin-splitting phenomenon has been experimentally observed in chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Meng Xu , Yan Chen