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An {\it ab initio} relativistic band structure calculation of spin Hall conductivity (SHC) ($\sigma_{xy}^z$) in Pd and Au metals has been performed. It is found that at low temperatures, intrinsic SHCs for Pd and Au are, respectively, $\sim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Y. Guo

We investigate the extrinsic spin Hall effect in the electron gas model due to magnetic impurities, by focusing on Ce- and Yb-impurities. In the dilute limit, the skew scattering term dominates the side jump term. For Ce-impurities, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Tanaka , H. Kontani

We consider spin and charge flow in normal metals. We employ the Keldysh formalism to find transport equations in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, interaction with magnetic impurities, and non-magnetic impurity scattering. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. V. Shchelushkin , Arne Brataas

We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells with two subbands, where a new intersubband-induced spin-orbit coupling is operative. The bulk spin Hall conductivity $\sigma^z_{xy}$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Minchul Lee , Marco O. Hachiya , E. Bernardes , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

Spin-to-charge current interconversions are widely exploited for the generation and detection of pure spin currents and are key ingredients for future spintronic devices including spin-orbit torques and spin-orbit logic circuits. In case of…

The quantum Hall effect in the three-dimensional anisotropic tight-binding electrons is investigated in the field-induced spin density wave phases with a magnetic field tilted to any direction. The Hall conductivity, $\sigma_{xy}$ and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yasumasa Hasegawa

During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The search for superconducting systems exhibiting nonreciprocal transport and, specifically, the diode effect, has proliferated in recent years. This trend encompasses a wide variety of systems, including planar hybrid structures,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , Sebastian Bergeret

The generation and manipulation of carrier spin polarization in semiconductors solely by electric fields has garnered significant attention as both an interesting manifestation of spin-orbit physics as well as a valuable capability for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-03 N. P. Stern , D. W. Steuerman , S. Mack , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We observe the inverse spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum wells. Specifically, we find that an inhomogeneous spin density induced by the optical injection gives rise an electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baoli Liu , Junren Shi , Wenxin Wang , Hongming Zhao , Dafang Li , Shoucheng Zhang , Qikun Xue , Dongmin Chen

The effect of spin-orbit interaction on electron transport properties of a cross-junction structure is studied. It is shown that it results in spin polarization of left and right outgoing electron waves. Consequently, incoming electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. N. Bulgakov , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Sadreev , P. Středa , P. Šeba

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Yang Zhang , Jakub Zelezny , Yan Sun , Jeroen van den Brink , Binghai Yan

We show that optically excited electrons by a circularly polarized light in a semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling subject to a weak electric field will carry a Hall current transverse to the electric field. This light induced Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xi Dai , Fu-Chun Zhang

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

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We start closing a gap in the comparison of experimental and theoretical data associated with the spin Hall effect. Based on a first-principles characterization of electronic structure and a semiclassical description of electron transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Albert Hönemann , Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig

Conversion of spin to charge current was observed in SrTiO3 doped with Nd (Nd:STO), which exhibited a metallic behavior even with low concentration doping. The obvious variation of DC voltages for Py/Nd:STO, obtained by inverting the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-18 Qiuru Wang , Wenxu Zhang , Bin Peng , Wanli Zhang

The intrinsic spin Hall effect plays an important role in spintronics applications, such as spin-orbit torque-based memory. The bulk space group symmetry determines the form of the bulk spin current conductivity tensor. This paper considers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Fei Xue , Paul M. Haney