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We investigate the impact of disorder in the form of impurity scattering on a generalized version of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in Weyl semimetals where the frequency detuning between the two orthogonally polarized beams is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Tobias Meng

The intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductors has developed to a remarkably lively and rapidly growing branch of research in the field of semiconductor spintronics. In this article we give a pedagogical overview on both theoretical and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Schliemann

We report on our theoretical investigation considering the widths of quantized Hall plateaus (QHPs) depending on the density asymmetry induced by the large current within the out-of-linear response regime. We solve the Schrodinger equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Eksi , O. Kilicoglu , S. Aktas , A. Siddiki

We present a study of spin transport in charge and spin inhomogeneous semiconductor systems. In particular, we investigate the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two semiconductor regions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

The spin Hall effect and its inverse play key roles in spintronic devices since they allow conversion of charge currents to and from spin currents. The conversion efficiency strongly depends on material details, such as the electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. H. Wei , Y. Niimi , B. Gu , T. Ziman , S. Maekawa , Y. Otani

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 study theoretically the effects of strong pinning centers on a charge density wave in the limit that the charge density wave coherence length is shorter than the average inter-impurity distance. An analysis based on a Ginzburg-Landau…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-26 Jun-ichi Okamoto , Andrew J. Millis

We discuss the mechanism of anomalous Hall effect related to the contribution of electron states below the Fermi surface (induced by the Berry phase in momentum space). Our main calculations are made within a model of two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , P. Bruno , M. Taillefumier , B. Canals , C. Lacroix

We considered the nonequlibrium spin dipoles induced around spin independent elastic scatterers by the intrinsic spin-Hall effect associated with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The normal to 2DEG spin polarization has been calculated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We use quantum mechanical scattering calculations implemented in a basis of tight-binding muffin-tin orbitals to calculate nonequilibrium spin and orbital currents in transition metals with a view to understanding the length scale on which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Max Rang , Paul J. Kelly

The characterization of the stationary states in the spin-Hall effect is discussed within the framework of the phenomenological two spin-channel model. It is shown that two different definitions of the stationary states can be applied in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Jean-Eric Wegrowe

We investigate magnetic polarons in two-dimensional strongly correlated electron systems, where conduction electrons interact with antiferromagnetically interacting localized spins. Starting from a basic model, we derive a simplified model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-25 Takao Morinari

We consider a two-dimensional structure with spin-orbit-related splitting of the electron (hole) spectrum and calculate the edge spin density which appears due to the intrinsic mechanism of spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander Khaetskii

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

Relativistic band theoretical calculations reveal that intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in hole-doped archetypical semiconductors Ge, GaAs and AlAs is large $[\sim 100 (\hbar/e)(\Omega cm)^{-1}]$, showing the possibility of spin Hall effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Y. Guo , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

We propose a tunneling spin Hall effect in a normal metal/$p$-wave magnet/superconductor junction. It is found that the Andreev reflection in the normal lead is spin-dependent and exhibits strong asymmetry with respect to the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 W. Zeng

We theoretically investigate an extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) in semiconductor heterostructures due to the scattering by an artificial potential created by antidot, STM tip, etc. The potential is electrically tunable. First, we formulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

We report the first electrical manipulation and detection of the mesoscopic intrinsic spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in semiconductors through non-local electrical measurement in nano-scale H-shaped structures built on high mobility HgTe/HgCdTe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-22 C. Bruene , A. Roth , E. G. Novik , M. Koenig , H. Buhmann , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Hanke , J. Sinova , L. W. Molenkamp

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…