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Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

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

We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function approach to study the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system with both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. By taking into account the long-range electron-impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We determine wave number $q$ and frequency $\omega$ dependent spin Hall conductivity $\sigma_{yx}^s(q, \omega)$ for a disordered two dimensional electron system with Rashba spin orbit interaction when $\q$ is {\it transverse} to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Ankur Sensharma

A two dimensional hopping system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered. Our main interest is concerned with the evolution of the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. We derive the rate equations governing the evolution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Damker , H. Boettger , V. V. Bryksin

Within the Kubo formalism, we estimate the spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and study its variation as a function of disorder strength and system size. The numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

A theory based on the Aharonov -Bohm effect in the momentum space for the Spin-Hall conductivity without a magnetic field is presented. The two dimensional Rashba Hamiltonian is diagonalized in the momentum spinor basis. This spinor is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schmeltzer

The impact of the boundary condition on the solution of the spin diffusion equations in a dirty Rashba semiconductor is reinvestigated. To this end diffusion equations, which take into account the coupling between spin and charge, are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bleibaum

We investigate the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional heavy-hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Both the short- and long-range disorder scatterings are considered in the…

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

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 derive the ac spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma_{\rm sH}(\omega)$ of two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled systems interacting with dispersionless phonons of frequency $\omega_0$. For the linear Rashba model we show that the electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi , E. Cappelluti , F. Marsiglio

We report a theoretical investigation on spin-Hall conductance fluctuation of disordered four terminal devices in the presence of Rashba or/and Dresselhaus spin-orbital interactions in two dimensions. As a function of disorder, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang , Qingfeng Sun , Hong Guo

We obtain analytic formulas for the frequency-dependent spin-Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of impurities, linear spin-orbit Rashba interaction, and external magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale

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 spin Hall effect taking into account the impurity scattering effect as general as possible with the focus on the definition of the spin current. The conserved bulk spin current (Shi et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 076604 (2006)])…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoyuki Sugimoto , Shigeki Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

Following a previous work [Shen, Ma, Xie and Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 256603 (2004)] on the resonant spin Hall effect, we present detailed calculations of the spin Hall conductance in two-dimensional quantum wells in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Yun-Juan Bao , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

The influence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the spin dynamics of a topologically disordered hopping system is studied in this paper. This is a significant generalization of a previous investigation, where an ordered (polaronic)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Beckmann , T. Damker , H. Boettger

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

We report a thorough theoretical investigation on the quantum transport of a disordered four terminal device in the presence of Rashba spin orbit coupling (RSOC) in two dimensions. Specifically we compute the behaviour of the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu