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A nonequilibrium Green's function approach is employed to investigate the spin-Hall effect in diffusive two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Considering a long-range electron-impurity scattering potential in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We calculate the spin Hall conductivity driven by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in $p$-type two-dimensional semiconductors in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. For a highly confined quantum well, the system is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Zarea , Sergio E. Ulloa

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

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

The spin Hall effect in a finite ballistic two-dimensional system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied numerically. We find that the spin Hall conductance is very sensitive to the transverse measuring location, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

It is well known that the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductor two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) possesses both linear and cubic in momentum contributions. Nevertheless, the latter is usually neglected in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 E. Santana-Suárez , F. Mireles

The spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system on honeycomb lattice with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings is studied numerically. Integer quantized spin Hall conductance is obtained at zero Rashba coupling limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting , F. D. M. Haldane

In this paper, we present the theoretical predication of a thermospin Hall effect, in which a transverse spin current can be generated in semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit coupling by a frequency-dependent longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Zhongshui Ma

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…

We study theoretically the manifestation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling via dc-transport measurements in realistic mesoscopic H-shape structures. The Landauer-Buttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Hankiewicz , L. W. Molenkamp , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the spin-Hall effect in systems with weak cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction. To this end we derive particle and spin diffusion equations and explicit expressions for the spin-current tensor in the diffusive regime. We discuss the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Bleibaum , S. Wachsmuth

Spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors relates the spin of an electron to its momentum and provides a pathway for electrically initializing and manipulating electron spins for applications in spintronics and spin-based quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Sih , R. C. Myers , Y. K. Kato , W. H. Lau , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Spin and electric Hall currents are calculated numerically in a two-dimensional mesoscopic system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling by means of the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. It is found that both electric and spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian Li , Liangbin Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

We consider a two-dimensional electron system subjected to a short-ranged nonmagnetic disorder potential, Coulomb interactions, and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The path-integral approach incorporated within the Keldysh formalism is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We study the influence of the phase relaxation process on Hall resistance and spin Hall current of a mesoscopic two-dimensional (2D) four-terminal Hall cross-bar with or without Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in a perpendicular uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula and Green's function approach, we calculate numerically the spin-Hall conductance in a two-dimensional junction system with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting