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We present a comprehensive quasiclassical approach for studying transport properties of superconducting diffusive hybrid structures in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We derive a generalized Usadel equation and boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-16 F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

We propose a mechanism of intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE). In this mechanism, local orbital angular momentum (OAM) induces electron position shift and couples with the bias electric field to generate orbital Hall effect (OHE). SHE then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Wonsig Jung , Dongwook Go , Hyun-Woo Lee , Changyoung Kim

When a charge current is injected into an altermagnet along a suitable crystallographic direction, a transverse spin current can be generated. This so-called spin-splitter effect does not rely on spin-orbit coupling, and is thus distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

We examine the evolution of paraxial beams carrying intrinsic spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) in gradient-index media. A parabolic-type equation is derived which describes the beam diffraction in curvilinear coordinates accompanying…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-25 K. Y. Bliokh , A. S. Desyatnikov

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Yang Zhang , Jakub Zelezny , Yan Sun , Jeroen van den Brink , Binghai Yan

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The intrinsic orbital Hall effect (OHE), the orbital counterpart of the spin Hall effect, was predicted and studied theoretically for more than one decade, yet to be observed in experiments. Here we propose a strategy to convert the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Jiewen Xiao , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan

Relativistic effects influence the motion of charged particles in solids by intertwining spin and momentum. The resulting phenomena exhibit rich and intriguing properties that can unveil radically new quantum devices. In this context, the…

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

We study the anomalous Hall effect arising from the altermagnetic order and spin-orbit interaction in doped FeSb$_2$. To investigate the anomalous transport, we have constructed a tight-binding model of FeSb$_2$. We separately considered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-20 Lotan Attias , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

In this Letter we present a microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin Hall effect based on the diagrammatic perturbation theory. Side-jump (SJ) and skew-scattering (SS) contributions are explicitly taken into account to calculate the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

The Josephson tunneling through a 2D normal contact with the spin-orbit split conduction band has been studied in the diffusive regime. Linearized Usadel equations for triplet components of the pairing function revealed a striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We present an extension of the relativistic electron transport theory for the standard (charge) conductivity tensor of random alloys within the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method to the so-called spin-dependent conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-18 Ilja Turek , Josef Kudrnovsky , Vaclav Drchal

The relativistic Rashba contribution to the spin-Hall effect in external electric and magnetic fields in Al and Pt was investigated. Schemes of edge accumulation of spins are proposed that take into account the flip of spins when they do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

A theory of the circular photogalvanic effect caused by spin splitting in quantum wells is developed. Direct interband transitions between the hole and electron size-quantized subbands are considered. The photocurrent excitation spectrum is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. E. Golub

We consider intrinsic contributions to the spin Hall and spin Nernst effects in a bilayer graphene. The relevant electronic spectrum is obtained from the tight binding Hamiltonian, which also includes the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

Despite the recent success of identifying experimental signatures of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), the research on the microscopic mechanisms behind this unique phenomenon is still in its infancy. Here, using a gapped 2D Dirac material as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alessandro Veneri , Tatiana G. Rappoport , Aires Ferreira

An extension of Drude model is proposed that accounts for spin and spin-orbit interaction of charge carriers. Spin currents appear due to combined action of the external electric field, crystal field and scattering of charge carriers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting from spin-orbit coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew scattering and side jump contributions to the spin Hall conductance. Applying the theory to bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Bertrand I. Halperin , Emmanuel I. Rashba

In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Rodrigo Turcati , Carlos Andres Bonilla Quintero , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Enrique Arias