2023/10/05 by Gabriel Lazrak, Börge Göbel, Lazrak, Gabriel +9 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.03348
openalex publication_date 2023/10/05 · openalex created_date 2023/10/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Strontium titanate (SrTiO3) two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) have broken spatial inversion symmetry and possess a finite Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This enables the interconversion of charge and spin currents through the direct and inverse Edelstein effects, with record efficiencies at low temperature, but more modest effects at room temperature. Here, we show that making these 2DEGs ferromagnetic enhances the conversion efficiency by nearly one order of magnitude. Starting from the experimental band structure of non-magnetic SrTiO3 2DEGs, we mimic magnetic exchange coupling by introducing an out-of-plane Zeeman term in a tight-binding model. We then calculate the band structure and spin textures for increasing internal magnetic fields and compute the Edelstein effect using a semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We find that the conversion efficiency first increases strongly with increasing magnetic field, then shows a maximum and finally decreases. This field dependence is caused by the competition of the exchange coupling with the effective Rashba interaction. While enhancing the splitting of band pairs amplifies the Edelstein effect, weakening the in-plane Rashba-type spin texture reduces it.