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We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Coordinate scaling of each spin density separately is considered in spin density functional theory. A virial theorem relates the spin-scaled correlation energy to the spin-scaled correlation potentials. An adiabatic connection formula…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Magyar , T. K. Whittingham , K. Burke

We calculate the frequency dependent spin susceptibilities for a two-dimensional electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. The resonances of the susceptibilities depends on the relative values of the Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital dynamics, which governs the angular momentum transfer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Hiroki Hayashi , Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Tenghua Gao , Satoshi Haku , Yuriy Mokrousov , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kazuya Ando

In the general case, torsion couples to the spin current of the Dirac field. In General Relativity, the apparent torsion field to which the spin current of the Dirac field couples is a mere manifestation of the tetrad anholonomy. Seen from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Aldrovandi , P. B. Barros , J. G. Pereira

Extra dimensions are introduced: 3 in Classical Mechanics and 6 in Relativistic Mechanics, which represent orientations, resulting from rotations, of a particle, described by quaternions, and leading to a 7-dimensional, respectively…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 Evangelos Chaliasos

A longitudinal electric field is used to control the transit time (through an undoped silicon vertical channel) of spin-polarized electrons precessing in a perpendicular magnetic field. Since an applied voltage determines the final spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

The drift-diffusion formalism for spin-polarized carrier transport in semiconductors is generalized to include spin-orbit coupling. The theory is applied to treat the extrinsic spin Hall effect using realistic boundary conditions. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , J. Fabian , I. Zutic , S. Das Sarma

Here, we study diffusive spin transport in two dimensions and demonstrate that an intrinsic analog to a previously predicted extrinsic spin swapping effect, where the spin polarization and the direction of flow are interchanged due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov

We consider properties of a two-dimensional electron system in a random magnetic field. It is assumed that the magnetic field not only influences orbital electron motion but also acts on the electron spin. For calculations, we suggest a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Takahashi , K. B. Efetov

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Optical responses of ferromagnetic materials with spin gauge field that drives intrinsic spin curren is theoretically studied. The conductivity tensor is calculated based on a linear response theory to the applied electric field taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Evgeny Karashtin , Gen Tatara

Understanding the coherent properties of electron spins driven by electric fields is crucial for their potential application in quantum-coherent nanoscience. In this work, we address two distinct driving mechanisms in electric-field driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jose Reina-Galvez , Matyas Nachtigall , Nicolas Lorente , Jan Martinek , Christoph Wolf

Optical intrinsic angular momentum can be regarded as derivation from spatial superposition of optical vector fields embodied by spinning or and spiraling the electric field vector. We employ vectorial formulation derivation to…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Jian Wang

We give physical explanations of explicit invariant expressions for the energy and angular momentum densities of gravitational fields in stationary space-times. These expressions involve non-locally defined conformal factors. In certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Lynden-Bell , Joseph Katz , Jiri Bicak

We develop a drift-diffusion equation that describes electron spin polarization density in two-dimensional electron systems. In our approach, superpositions of spin-up and spin-down states are taken into account, what distinguishes our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Pershin

Tunneling spin transport characteristics of a magnetic skyrmion are described theoretically in magnetic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The spin-polarized charge current in STM (SP-STM) and tunneling spin transport vector quantities,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Krisztián Palotás , Levente Rózsa , László Szunyogh

Motivated by the importance of understanding competing mechanisms to current-induced spin-orbit torque in complex magnets, we develop a unified theory of current-induced spin-orbital coupled dynamics. The theory describes angular momentum…

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

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

A pure spin current formed by opposite spins moving in opposite directions is a rank-2 axial tensor which breaks the inversion symmetry. Thus a spin current has a second-order optical susceptibility, with unique polarization-dependence…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-30 Jing Wang , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu