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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

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

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that two-dimensional (2D) heavy hole systems in single heterostructures exhibit a \emph{decrease} in spin-orbit interaction-induced spin splitting with an increase in perpendicular electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Habib , E. Tutuc , S. Melinte , M. Shayegan , D. Wasserman , S. A. Lyon , R. Winkler

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

We study the spin polarization and its associated spin-Hall current due to EDSR in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. We show that the disorder induced damping of the resonant spin polarization can be strongly reduced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

The anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is studied within the Kubo-Streda formalism in the presence of pointlike potential impurities. We find that all contributions to the…

We show that two types of spin-orbit coupling in the 2 dimensional hole gas (2DHG), with and without inversion symmetry breaking, contribute to the intrinsic spin Hall effect\cite{murakami2003,sinova2003}. Furthermore, the vertex correction…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We calculate the spin-Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas within the self-consistent Born approximation, varying the strength and type of disorder. In the weak disorder limit we find both analytically and numerically a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Peter Schwab

Theory predicts for the two-dimensional electrons gas with only Rashba spin-orbit interaction a vanishing spin Hall conductivity and at the same time a finite inverse spin Hall effect. We show how these seemingly contradictory results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Gorini , R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect in hexagon-shaped samples is investigated. To take into account the spin-orbit couplings and to fit the hexagon edges, we derive the triangular version of the tight-binding model for the linear Rashba [Sov.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-16 Son-Hsien Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

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 show that pure spin Hall current, flowing out of a four-terminal phase-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within inversion asymmetric semiconductor heterostructure, contains contributions from both the extrinsic mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo

We study the spin Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a magnetic field and both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We show that the value of the spin Hall conductivity, which is finite only if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lucignano , R. Raimondi , A. Tagliacozzo

Similar to the Landauer electric dipole created around an impurity by the electric current, a spin polarized cloud of electrons can be induced by the intrinsic spin-Hall effect near a spin independent elastic scatterer. It is shown that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We predict two spin-dependent transport phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems, which are induced by spatially fluctuating Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the electron gas is magnetized, the random Rashba interaction leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

We study the spin-charge coupled transport in a two-dimensional electron system using the method of quasiclassical ($\xi$-integrated) Green's functions. In particular we derive the Eilenberger equation in the presence of a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa

We have investigated the complex two-dimensional electron system with unequal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin polarizations are obtained in a wide range of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

We investigate spin transport of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type due to structure-inversion asymmetry. Similarly to the case of electrons, the longitudinal spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss