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A two-dimensional kagome lattice is theoretically investigated within a simple tight-binding model, which includes the nearest neighbor hopping term and the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction between the next nearest neighbors. By using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

The spin Hall effect depends crucially on the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling of the energy band. Because of the smaller spin-orbit coupling in silicon, the spin Hall effect is expected to be much reduced. We show that the electric field in…

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

The spin relaxation time of localized charge carriers is few orders of magnitude larger than that of free electrons and holes. Therefore mutual conversion of spin polarization, charge current and spin current turns out to be underlined in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , L. E. Golub

A nonlocal electric response in the spin-Hall regime, resulting from spin diffusion mediating charge conduction, is predicted. The spin-mediated transport stands out due to its long-range character, and can give dominant contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Abanin , A. V. Shytov , L. S. Levitov , B. I. Halperin

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

For the two-dimensional ideal electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and in the presence of non-magnetic short-ranged potential impurities the spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma_{sH}$ is found by direct microscopic calculation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ol'ga V. Dimitrova

While moir\'e phenomena have been extensively studied in low-carrier-density systems such as graphene and semiconductors, their implications for metallic systems with large Fermi surfaces remain largely unexplored. Using GPU-accelerated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Ning Mao , Cheng Xu , Ting Bao , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

We predict a new effect in electronic bilayers: the {\it Spin Hall Drag}. The effect consists in the generation of spin accumulation across one layer by an electric current along the other layer. It arises from the combined action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Badalyan , G. Vignale

The conversion efficiency from charge current to spin current via spin Hall effect is evaluated by the spin Hall ratio (SHR). Through state-of-the-art $ab~initio$ calculations involving both charge conductivity and spin Hall conductivity,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-30 Jiaqi Zhou , Samuel Poncé , Jean-Christophe Charlier

A density-functional-theory based relativistic scattering formalism is used to study charge transport through thin Pt films with room temperature lattice disorder. A Fuchs-Sondheimer specularity coefficient $p \sim 0.5$ is needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Rohit S. Nair , Max S. Rang , Paul J. Kelly

For the spin Hall effect arising from strong band-structure spin-orbit coupling, a semiclassical Boltzmann theory reasonably addressing the intriguing disorder effect called side-jump is still absent. In this paper we describe such a theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Cong Xiao

Intrinsic spin Hall effect in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene is studied theoretically. The low-energy electronic spectrum for states in the vicinity of the Dirac points is obtained from the corresponding $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś

Recent works aiming at understanding magnetotransport phenomena in ferromagnetic III-V and II-VI semiconductors are described. Theory of the anomalous Hall effect in p-type magnetic semiconductors is discussed, and the relative role of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Dietl , Fumihiro Matsukura , Hideo Ohno , Joel Cibert , David Ferrand

The presence of incommensurate spiral spin-density waves (SDW) has been proposed to explain the $p$ (hole doping) to $1+p$ jump measured in the Hall number $n_H$ at a doping $p^*$. Here we explore {\it collinear} incommensurate SDW as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Charlebois , S. Verret , A. Foley , O. Simard , D. Sénéchal , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We employ a helicity-basis kinetic equation approach to investigate the anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional narrow-band semiconductors considering both Rashba and extrinsic spin-orbit (SO) couplings, as well as a SO coupling directly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , Norman J. M. Horing , X. L. Lei

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

We have studied the charge to spin conversion in Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$/CoFeB heterostructures. The spin Hall conductivity (SHC) of the sputter deposited heterostructures exhibits a high plateau at Bi-rich compositions, corresponding to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Zhendong Chi , Yong-Chang Lau , Xiandong Xu , Tadakatsu Ohkubo , Kazuhiro Hono , Masamitsu Hayashi

We calculate the localization corrections to the anomalous Hall conductivity related to the contribution of spin-orbit scattering into the current vertex (side-jump mechanism). We show that in contrast to the ordinary Hall effect, there…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 V. K. Dugaev , A. Crepieux , P. Bruno

We study the spin Hall effect in the kagom\'{e} lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The conserved spin Hall conductance $\sigma_{xy}^{s}$ (see text) and its two components, i.e., the conventional term $\sigma_{xy}^{s0}$ and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guocai Liu , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Shu-Shen Li

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