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St\v{r}eda formula for charge and spin currents

Mathematical Physics 2023-02-06 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider a 2-dimensional Bloch--Landau--Pauli Hamiltonian for a spinful electron in a constant magnetic field subject to a periodic background potential. Assuming that the zz-component of the spin operator is conserved, we compute the linear response of the associated spin density of states to a small change in the magnetic field, and identify it with the spin Hall conductivity. This response is in the form of a spin Chern marker, which is in general quantized to a half-integer, and to an integer under the further assumption of time-reversal symmetry. Our result is thus a generalization to the context of the quantum spin Hall effect to the well-known formula by St\v{r}eda, which is formulated instead for charge transport.

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@article{arxiv.2002.02419,
  title  = {St\v{r}eda formula for charge and spin currents},
  author = {Domenico Monaco and Massimo Moscolari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02419},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

10 pages. Improved exposition, references added and minor corrections. Final version matches published paper on Reviews in Mathematical Physics

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