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The spin-orbit interaction in semiconductors is shown to result in an anisotropic contribution into the exchange Hamiltonian of a pair of localized conduction-band electrons. The anisotropic exchange interaction exists in semiconductor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. V. Kavokin

The effects of interplay between spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting on weak localisation and universal conductance fluctuations in lateral semiconductor quantum dots are analysed: All possible symmetry classes of corresponding random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We study the dependence of the intrinsic spin Hall effect on the crystal symmetry and geometry of experiment. The spin current is obtained and the Hall voltage caused by the polarization of the electron spins is computed. The unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 E. M. Chudnovsky

Propagating, directionally dependent, polarized spin-currents are created in an anisotropic planar semiconductor microcavity, via Rayleigh scattering of optically injected polaritons in the optical spin Hall regime. The influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 A. Amo , T. C. H. Liew , C. Adrados , E. Giacobino , A. V. Kavokin , A. Bramati

We have investigated the transport of spin polarization through a classically chaotic semiconductor loop with a strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We found that if the escape time of a particle is long enough, the configuration averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Mal'shukov , V. Shlyapin , K. A. Chao

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

We theoretically investigate electron spin injection and spin-polarization sensitive current detection at Schottky contacts between a ferromagnetic metal and an n-type or p-type semiconductor. We use spin-dependent continuity equations and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

We show theoretically that stimulated spin flip Raman scattering can be used to inject spin currents in doped semiconductors with spin split bands. A pure spin current, where oppositely oriented spins move in opposite directions, can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Najmaie , E. Ya. Sherman , J. E. Sipe

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

A theory based on the Aharonov -Bohm effect in the momentum space for the Spin-Hall conductivity without a magnetic field is presented. The two dimensional Rashba Hamiltonian is diagonalized in the momentum spinor basis. This spinor is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schmeltzer

We derive the transport equations for two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction and short-range spin-independent disorder. In the limit of slow spatial variations of the electron distribution we obtain coupled diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…

Storing, transmitting, and manipulating information using the electron spin resides at the heart of spintronics. Fundamental for future spintronics applications is the ability to control spin currents in solid state systems. Among the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabrizio Nichele , Szymon Hennel , Patrick Pietsch , Werner Wegscheider , Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

The intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is evaluated by taking account of anisotropic coupling between magnetic impurities and itinerant electrons. In our calculation Kubo's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Pei Wang , You-Quan Li , Xuean Zhao

The dynamic coupling between spin and charge currents in non-magnetic conductors is considered. As a consequence of this coupling, the spin dynamics is directly reflected in the electrical impedance of the sample, with a relevant frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. S. Alekseev , M. I. Dyakonov

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

We show that optically excited electrons by a circularly polarized light in a semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling subject to a weak electric field will carry a Hall current transverse to the electric field. This light induced Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xi Dai , Fu-Chun Zhang

We calculate an effect of spinless impurities on the spin Hall effect of the Luttinger model representing p-type semiconductors. The self-energy in the Born approximation becomes diagonal in the helicity basis and its value is independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Murakami

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang