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We report the first measurement of the Spin Hall Effect of Light (SHEL) on an air-metal interface. The SHEL is a polarization-dependent out-of-plane shift on the reflected beam. For the case of metallic reflection with a linearly polarized…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-29 N. Hermosa , A. M. Nugrowati , Andrea Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

Despite the recent success of identifying experimental signatures of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), the research on the microscopic mechanisms behind this unique phenomenon is still in its infancy. Here, using a gapped 2D Dirac material as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alessandro Veneri , Tatiana G. Rappoport , Aires Ferreira

The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum in response to an electric field, has concentrated overwhelmingly on intrinsic mechanisms. Here, using a quantum kinetic formulation, we determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

We present gauge-invariant theory of the dynamic inverse spin Hall effect driven by the spin--orbit interaction in metallic systems. Charge conservation is imposed diagrammatically by including vertex corrections. We show the charge current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-06 Kazuhiro Hosono , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We calculate the anomalous Hall conductance of superconductors with spin-orbit interaction and with either uniform or local magnetization. In the first case we consider a uniform ferromagnetic ordering in a spin triplet superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 P. D. Sacramento , M. A. N. Araujo , V. R. Vieira , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas

A general form of the Hamiltonian for electrons confined to a curved one-dimensional (1D) channel with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in momentum is rederived and is applied to a U-shaped channel. Discretizing the derived continuous 1D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Ming-Hao Liu , Jhih-Sheng Wu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

Spin transport properties at finite electric and magnetic fields are studied by using the generalized semiclassical Boltzmann equation. It is found that the spin diffusion equation for non-equilibrium spin density and spin currents involves…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Qi , S. Zhang

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 construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

Ferromagnetic metals, with the potential to generate spin current with unconventional spin polarization via the spin Hall effect, offer promising opportunities for field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization and for the spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Fanxing Zheng , Jianting Dong , Yizhuo Song , Meng Zhu , Xinlu Li , Jia Zhang

Recent reports of spin-orbit coupling enhancement in chemically modified graphene have opened doors to studies of the spin Hall effect with massless chiral fermions. Here, we theoretically investigate the interaction and impurity density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mirco Milletari , Aires Ferreira

The side-jump effect is a manifestation of the spin orbit interaction in electron scattering from an atom/ion/impurity. The effect has a broad interest because of its conceptual importance for generic spin-orbital physics, in particular the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 O. P. Sushkov , A. I. Milstein , M. Mori , S. Maekawa

The detailed derivation of a theory for transport in quasi-two-dimensional metals, with small-angle elastic scattering and angle-independent inelastic scattering is presented. The transport equation is solved for a model Fermi surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Elihu Abrahams , C. M. Varma

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We show that the extrinsic spin Hall effect can be engineered in monolayer graphene by decoration with small doses of adatoms, molecules, or nanoparticles originating local spin-orbit perturbations. The analysis of the single impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 A. Ferreira , T. G. Rappoport , M. A. Cazalilla , A. H. Castro Neto

The spin Hall (SH) effect is a phenomenon in which the spin current flows perpendicular to an applied electric field and causes the spin accumulation at the boundaries. However, in the presence of spin-orbit couplings, the spin current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Atsuo Shitade , Gen Tatara

Conceptual framework behind the intrinsic spin Hall effect in three-dimensional conductors is discussed. Theory suggests how the spin Hall current should depend on symmetry and orientation of the crystal.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-20 E. M. Chudnovsky

We present the generalization of the two-dimensional quantum scattering formalism to systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using symmetry considerations, we show that the differential scattering cross section depends on the spin state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Andras Palyi , Jozsef Cserti

We study the mechanisms of the spin Hall effect (SHE) and anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in 3$d$ ferromagnetic metals (Fe, Co, permalloy (Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$; Py), and Ni) by varying their resistivities and temperature. At low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Yasutomo Omori , Edurne Sagasta , Yasuhiro Niimi , Martin Gradhand , Luis E. Hueso , Felix Casanova , YoshiChika Otani