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A nonequilibrium Green's function approach is employed to investigate the spin-Hall effect in diffusive two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Considering a long-range electron-impurity scattering potential in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

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

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

We consider a two-dimensional electron system subjected to a short-ranged nonmagnetic disorder potential, Coulomb interactions, and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The path-integral approach incorporated within the Keldysh formalism is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

The intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is evaluated by taking account of anisotropic coupling between magnetic impurities and itinerant electrons. In our calculation Kubo's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Pei Wang , You-Quan Li , Xuean Zhao

We calculate the spin-Hall conductivity of a disordered two-dimensional Rashba electron gas within the self-consistent Born approximation and for arbitrary values of the electron density, parametrized by the ratio $E_F /E_0$, where $E_F$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi , E. Cappelluti , F. Marsiglio

We investigate the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional heavy-hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Both the short- and long-range disorder scatterings are considered in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

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

We calculate spin Hall conductivities in the two dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The salient feature is that, apart from the usual spin-Hall conductivity \sigma^z_{xy} which corresponds to the induction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ankur Sensharma , Sudhansu S. Mandal

The spin Hall and longitudinal conductivity of a 2D heavy-hole gas with {\it k}-cubic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied in the ac frequency domain. Using Kubo linear-response theory and a recently proposed definition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles

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

We evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov

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

We found the universal relationship between frequency-dependent spin-Hall conductivity and magnetic susceptibility in clean 2D electron systems with Rashba coupling: $\sigma_{sH}(\Omega)= \frac{e}{(g\mu_B)^2m_b}\chi_\parallel(\Omega)$ in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ol'ga V. Dimitrova

Recent experiments demonstrate that antiferromagnets exhibit the spin Hall effect. We study a tight-binding model of an antiferromagnet on a square lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and disorder. By exact diagonalization of a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Camilla Espedal , Arne Brataas

The spin Hall effect is investigated in a high mobility two dimensional electron system with the spin-orbital coupling of both the Rashba and the Dresselhaus types. A spin current perpendicular to the electric field is generated by either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen

We study the coupled dynamics of spin and charge currents in a two-dimensional electron gas in the transport diffusive regime. For systems with inversion symmetry there are established relations between the spin Hall effect, the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi , C. Gorini

Quasi--one dimensional edge channels are formed at the boundary of a two-dimensional electron system subject to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. We consider the effect of Rashba spin--orbit coupling, induced by structural inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We present magnetotransport calculations for homogeneous two-dimensional electron systems including the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which mixes the spin-eigenstates and leads to a modified fan-chart with crossing Landau levels. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 M. Langenbuch , M. Suhrke , U. Rössler

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth