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Elasto-Dynamical Induced Spin and Charge Pumping in Bulk Heavy Metals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-06-08 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Analogous to the Spin-Hall Effect (SHE), {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations reveal that acoustic phonons can induce charge (spin) current flowing along (normal to) its propagation direction. Using Floquet approach we have calculated the elastodynamical-induced charge and spin pumping in bulk Pt and demonstrate that: (i) While the longitudinal charge pumping is an intrinsic observable, the transverse pumped spin-current has an extrinsic origin that depends strongly on the electronic relaxation time; (ii) The longitudinal charge current is of nonrelativstic origin, while the transverse spin current is a relativistic effect that to lowest order scales linearly with the spin-orbit coupling strength; (iii) both charge and spin pumped currents have parabolic dependence on the amplitude of the elastic wave.

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@article{arxiv.2201.09121,
  title  = {Elasto-Dynamical Induced Spin and Charge Pumping in Bulk Heavy Metals},
  author = {Farzad Mahfouzi and Nicholas Kioussis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09121},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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