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A biref review is presented on resonant spin Hall effect, where a tiny external electric field induces a saturated spin Hall current in a 2-dimensional electron or hole gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. The phenomenon is attributted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

In order to describe correctly the interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic spin-orbit mechanisms to the spin Hall effect, it is necessary to consider different sources of spin relaxation. We take into account the spin relaxation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Roberto Raimondi , Peter Schwab

Topological superconductivity can be engineered in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction coupled to a superconductor. Experimental advances in this field have often been triggered by the development of new hybrid material…

We analyze the effect known as "spin current swapping" (SCS) due to electron-impurity scattering in a uniform spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas. In this effect a primary spin current $J_i^a$ (lower index for spatial direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ka Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

The spin Hall effect in a finite ballistic two-dimensional system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied numerically. We find that the spin Hall conductance is very sensitive to the transverse measuring location, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We study the temperature flow of conductivities in a gated GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) containing self-assembled InAs dots and compare the results with recent theoretical predictions. By changing the gate voltage, we are able…

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

Pure spin currents are measured in micron-wide channels of GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Spins are injected and detected using quantum point contacts, which become spin polarized at high magnetic field. High sensitivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Frolov , A. Venkatesan , W. Yu , W. Wegscheider , J. A. Folk

A large spin-dependent and electric field-tunable magnetoresistance of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) is a key ingredient for the realization of many novel concepts for spin-based electronic devices. The low magnetoresistance…

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

The spin-orbit coupling may generate spin transverse force on moving electron spin, which gives a heuristic picture for the quantum transverse transport of electron. A relation between the spin and anomalous Hall conductance and spin force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bin Zhou , Li Ren , Shun-Qing Shen

This work elucidates the novel behavior found in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under a tilted magnetic field in which the field's angle becomes the dominant factor in tuning the spin-splitting rather than the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Rayda Gammag , Cristine Villagonzalo

The spin-Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) generates symmetric out-of-plane spin Sz accumulation about the current axis in the absence of external magnetic field. Here we employ the real space Landauer-Keldysh formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Son-Hsien Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We calculate the spin-Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas within the self-consistent Born approximation, varying the strength and type of disorder. In the weak disorder limit we find both analytically and numerically a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Peter Schwab

We propose a new scheme of spin filtering based on nanometric crossjunctions in the presence of Spin Orbit interaction, employing ballistic nanojunctions patterned in a two-dimensional electron gas. We demonstrate that the flow of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

The spin Hall effect in two dimensional hole systems is studied by using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula with the help of Green functions. The spin Hall effect exists even when there are {\em not} any correlations between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou

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

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

We evidence the possibility for coherent electrical manipulation of the spin orientation of topologically protected edge states in a low-symmetry quantum spin Hall insulator. By using a combination of ab-initio simulations, symmetry-based…

In metallic systems with spin-orbit coupling a longitudinal charge current may generate a transverse pure spin current; vice-versa an injected pure spin current may result in a transverse charge current. Such direct and inverse spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Cosimo Gorini