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We consider the spin-Hall current in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We derive a generalized Kubo-Greenwood formula for the spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma$ and evaluate it in an…

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The kinetics of the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity induced by the skew scattering is performed from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach in $(001)$ GaAs symmetric quantum well. In the steady state, the extrinsic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-02 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

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

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

We obtain the spin-orbit interaction and spin-charge coupled transport equations of a two-dimensional heavy hole gas under the influence of strain and anisotropy. We show that a simple two-band Hamiltonian can be used to describe the holes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent E. Sacksteder , B. Andrei Bernevig

We propose an experimental scheme to study spin-orbit coupling effects in a of two-dimensional (2D) Fermi atomic gas cloud by coupling its internal electronic states (pseudospins) to radiation in a delta configuration. The induced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiong-Jun Liu , Mario F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Cosimo Gorini , Amin Maleki , Ka Shen , Ilya V. Tokatly , Giovanni Vignale , Roberto Raimondi

We report distinct nonanalytic signatures in the spin-orbit entanglement of a 2D electron gas with Rashba interactions at integer values of the filling factor and at certain level crossings. The accompanying sharp changes in the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-16 Rona F. Barbarona , Francis N. C. Paraan

Using the recently proposed definition of a conserved spin-current operator [J. Shi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 076604 (2006)] we explore the frequency dependent spin Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arturo Wong , Jesus A. Maytorena , Catalina Lopez-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

Spin-charge interconversion is currently the focus of intensive experimental and theoretical research both for its intrinsic interest and for its potential exploitation in the realization of new spintronic functionalities. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi

We study intrinsic spin Hall effect in p-type GaAs quantum well structure described by Luttinger Hamiltonian and a Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from the structural inversion symmetry breaking. The Rashba term induces an energy level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Yu-Gui Yao , Fu-Chun Zhang

We study the spin current induced spin-Hall effect that a longitudinal spin dependent chemical potential $qV_{s=x,y,z}$ induces a transverse spin conductances $G^{ss'}$. A four terminal system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

Recently, it has been shown that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of the Dresselhaus type in $[110]$ quantum wells can be mathematically removed by a non-Abelian gauge transformation. In the presence of an additional uniform magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qin Liu , Tianxing Ma , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We present the analytical result of the expectation value of spin resulting from an injected spin polarized electron into a semi-infinitely extended 2DEG plane with [001] growth geometry via ideal quantum point contact. Both the Rashba and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang , Son-Hsien Chen

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

Using the microscopic theory of the conserved spin current [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 076604 (2006)], we investigate the spin Hall effect in the two dimensional electron gas system with a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

There currently is a large effort to explore spin-orbit effects in semiconductor structures with the ultimate goal of manipulating electron spins with gates. A search for materials with large spin-orbit coupling is therefore important. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Studenikin , P. T. Coleridge , P. Poole , A. Sachrajda

We have studied the spin-orbit interaction in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas in a GaInAs/InP heterostructure as a function of an applied gate voltage as well as a function of temperature. Highly sensitive magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaliy A. Guzenko , Thomas Schäpers , Hilde Hardtdegen

By means the envelope function approximation, 8-band Kane model and a finite-difference scheme with the coordinate space discretization, we numerically performed calculations of the spin-orbit coupling parameters for 2D electron gas…

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