2001/07/06 by Karsten Flensberg, Thomas Stibius Jensen, Niels Asger Mortensen
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.64.245308
published as Phys. Rev. B 64, 245308 (2001). · 9 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2001/07/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important, because they tend to equilibrate the momentum of the two spin species. This ``spin drag'' effect enhances the resistivity of the system. The enhancement is stronger the lower the dimension and should be measurable in for example a two dimensional electron gas with ferromagnetic contacts. We also include spin flip scattering which has two effects: it equilibrates the spin density imbalance and, provided it has a non s-wave component, also the current imbalance.