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In spintronics, both electronic charge and spin are used to process and store information. Generation, manipulation, and detection of spin currents are essential for the development of next-generation spintronic technologies. Here, we…

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We propose a tunneling spin Hall effect in a normal metal/$p$-wave magnet/superconductor junction. It is found that the Andreev reflection in the normal lead is spin-dependent and exhibits strong asymmetry with respect to the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 W. Zeng

We study the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the $d$-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in metallic $d$-electron systems based on the multiorbital tight-binding model. The obtained Hall conductivities are much larger than that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Tanaka , H. Kontani , M. Naito , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

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

The spin-orbit interaction in heavy hole gas formed at $p$-doped semiconductor heterojunctions and electron gas at {\mbox SrTiO}${}_3$ surfaces is cubic in momentum. Here we report magnetotransport properties of k-cubic Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 Alestin Mawrie , Tutul Biswas , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We consider the spin-Hall current in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We derive a generalized Kubo-Greenwood formula for the spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma$ and evaluate it in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Chalaev , Daniel Loss

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

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

In this review article we describe spin-dependent transport in materials with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. We mainly focus on semiconductor heterostructures, topological insulators, graphene and hybrid structures involving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Dario Bercioux , Procolo Lucignano

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

We predict the very large spin Hall effect in type-II superconductors which mechanism is drastically different from the previously known ones. We find that in the flux-flow regime the spin is transported by the spin-polarized Abrikosov…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-12 Artjom Vargunin , Mikhail Silaev

We study the spin photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional electron system with structure inversion asymmetry by means of the solution of semiconductor optical Bloch equations. It is shown that a linearly polarized light may inject a pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bin Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

We investigate the Drude model of spin dynamics in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled systems. In the absence of an applied electric field, the spin aligns with the k-dependent effective magnetic field. The influence of disorder (the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Tsung-Wei Chen , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu

In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Rodrigo Turcati , Carlos Andres Bonilla Quintero , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Enrique Arias

Employing a nonequilibrium Green's function approach, we examine the effects of long-range hole-impurity scattering on spin-Hall current in $p$-type bulk semiconductors within the framework of the self-consistent Born approximation. We find…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , Norman J. M. Horing , X. L. Lei

We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a paramagnetic two dimensonal electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the weak scattering regime. In the ususal case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Sinitsyn , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Teizer , Jairo Sinova

A general expression for the spin Hall conductivity (SHC) in the s-wave superconducting state at finite temperatures is derived. Based on the expression, we study the SHC in a two-dimensional electron gas model in the presence of Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , J. Goryo , D. S. Hirashima

We study the linear response spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of the Rashba spin orbit interaction in the diffusive transport regime. When defect scattering is modeled by isotropic short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We investigate equilibrium (background), linear, and nonlinear spin currents in two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit coupled altermagnet systems, using a modified spin current operator that includes anomalous velocity from non-zero Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Priyadarshini Kapri

We imaged the transport of current-induced spin coherence in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a triple quantum well. Nonlocal Kerr rotation measurements, based on the optical resonant amplification of the electrically-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 F. G. G. Hernandez , S. Ullah , G. J. Ferreira , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov