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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

Layered singlet paired superconductors with disorder and broken time reversal symmetry are studied. The phase diagram demonstrates charge-spin separation in transport. In terms of the average intergrain transmission and the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai

Spin Hall effect in a nonlocal spin-injection device is theoretically studied. Using a nonlocal spin-injection technique, a pure spin current is created in a nonmagnetic metal (N). The spin current flowing in N is deflected by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We have observed the Hall effect in the field-induced accumulation layer on the surface of small-molecule organic semiconductor. The Hall mobility mu_H increases with decreasing temperature in both the intrinsic (high-temperature) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Podzorov , E. Menard , J. A. Rogers , M. E. Gershenson

Spin Hall effect can be induced both by the extrinsic impurity scattering and by the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the electronic structure. The HgTe/CdTe quantum well has a quantum phase transition where the electronic structure changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Yang , Kai Chang , S. C. Zhang

This paper reviews the state of the art in spin-torque and spin Hall effect driven nano-oscillators. After a brief introduction to the underlying physics, the authors discuss different implementations of these oscillators, their functional…

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

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…

A current problem in semiconductor spin-based electronics is the difficulty of experimentally expressing the effect of spin-polarized current in electrical circuit measurements. We present a theoretical solution with the principle of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 Hanan Dery , Lukasz Cywinski , Lu J. Sham

The spin-orbit interaction in a solid couples the spin of an electron to its momentum. This coupling gives rise to mutual conversion between spin and charge currents: the direct and inverse spin Hall effects. The spin Hall effects have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazuya Ando , Eiji Saitoh

While microscopic laws of physics are invariant under the reversal of the arrow of time, the transport of energy and information in most devices is an irreversible process. It is this irreversibility that leads to intrinsic dissipations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa , Shou-Cheng Zhang

In this paper, we present the theoretical predication of a thermospin Hall effect, in which a transverse spin current can be generated in semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit coupling by a frequency-dependent longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Zhongshui Ma

The controlled generation of localized spin densities is a key enabler of semiconductor spintronics In this work, we study spin Hall effect induced edge spin accumulation in a two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin orbit interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , B. Kaestner , A. H. MacDonald , T. Jungwirth

We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall effect in a quantum well semiconductor doped with magnetic impurities, as a means to manipulate the carriers' spin. Using a simple Hamiltonian with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and exchange interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 T. L. van den Berg , L. Raymond , A. Verga

A generalized definition of intrinsic and extrinsic transport coefficients is introduced. We show that transport coefficients from the intrinsic origin are solely determined by local electronic structure, and thus the intrinsic spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Zhang , Z. Yang

We predict that when an alternating voltage is applied to a semiconducting system with inhomogeneous electron density in the direction perpendicular to main current flow, the spin Hall effect results in a transverse voltage containing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-21 Yu. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

We theoretically investigate the mechanism to generate large intrinsic spin Hall effect in iridates or more broadly in 5d transition metal oxides with strong spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate such a possibility by taking the example of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-25 Adarsh S. Patri , Kyusung Hwang , Hyun-Woo Lee , Yong Baek Kim

We study the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the $d$-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in metallic $d$-electron systems based on the multiorbital tight-binding model. The obtained Hall conductivities are much larger than that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Tanaka , H. Kontani , M. Naito , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

Spin accumulation and spin transfer torques induced by Spin Hall Effect in bi-layer structures comprising ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials are theoretically investigated. The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. Vedyayev , N. Strelkov , M. Chshiev , N. Ryzhanova , B. Dieny

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