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We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in an inversion asymmetric layer and in the presence of spatially distributed magnetic impurities. We investigate the relationship between the geometrical properties of the wave-function and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 T. L. van den Berg , L. Raymond , A. Verga

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

We show that an electric field parallel to the wavefronts of an electron-hole grating in a GaAs quantum well generates, via the electronic spin Hall effect, a spin grating of the same wave vector and with an amplitude that can exceed 1% of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ka Shen , G. Vignale

Topological aspects of superconductivity in quantum spin-Hall systems (QSHSs) such as thin layers of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D Tis) or two-dimensional Tis are in the focus of current research. We examine hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. W. Reinthaler , G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

Electrically-induced electron spin polarization is imaged in n-type ZnSe epilayers using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. Despite no evidence for an electrically-induced internal magnetic field, current-induced in-plane spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Stern , S. Ghosh , G. Xiang , M. Zhu , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We demonstrate theoretically that a coherent manipulation of electron spins in low-dimensional semiconductor structures with spin-orbit coupling by infrared radiation is possible. The proposed approach is based on using a dipole force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 E. Ya. Sherman , J. G. Muga , V. K. Dugaev , A. Ruschhaupt

We consider the possibility to extract spins that are generated by an electric current in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (R2DEG) in the Hall geometry. To this end, we discuss boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 I. Adagideli , M. Scheid , M. Wimmer , G. E. W. Bauer , K. Richter

We develop the microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas, including skew-scattering, side-jump, and Coulomb interaction effects. We find that while the spin-Hall conductivity connected with…

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

Successful incorporation of the spin degree of freedom in semiconductor technology requires the development of a new paradigm allowing for a scalable, non-destructive electrical detection of the spin-polarization of injected charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , Jairo Sinova , B. G. Park , X. L. Xu , B. Kaestner , V. Novak , T. Jungwirth

We study the dependence of the intrinsic spin Hall effect on the crystal symmetry and geometry of experiment. The spin current is obtained and the Hall voltage caused by the polarization of the electron spins is computed. The unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 E. M. Chudnovsky

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

The intrinsic spin Hall conductance shows rich sign changes by applying a perpendicular magnetic field in a two-dimensional hole gas. Especially, a notable sign changes can be achieved by adjusting the characteristic length of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tianxing Ma , Qin Liu

We propose an analytic model to study intrinsic spin polarization effect in a ballistic Rashba bar with two semi-infinite leads. The wave functions expanded with plane waves in Rashba bar are required to satisfy boundary conditions at both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Yao , Z. Yang

We propose a mechanism of spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas with spatially random Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The calculations based on the Kubo formalism and kinetic equation show that in contrast to the constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

Density-functional calculations using an exact exchange potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed in a GaAs single quantum well predict the existence of a spin-polarized phase, when an excited subband becomes slightly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. Goñi , P. Giudici , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , M. Hauser

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

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

The magnetic spin Hall effect is a time-reversal-odd phenomenon in which spin current is induced by the charge current. In the presence of a spin-orbit coupling and/or noncolinear magnetism, however, spin current is not uniquely defined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Atsuo Shitade

A Kramers pair of helical edge states in quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is robust against normal dephasing but not robust to spin dephasing. In our work, we provide an effective spin dephasing mechanism in the puddles of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Junjie Qi , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie