2005/06/30 by İnanç Adagideli, Inanc Adagideli, G. Bauer +1 · 5 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Semiconductor materials and devices #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.256602
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256602 (2005) · To appear in Physical Review Letters. 5 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX
arxiv created 2005/11/10 · openalex publication_date 2005/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The prediction of intrinsic spin Hall currents by Murakami et al. and Sinova et al. raised many questions about methods of detection and the effect of disorder. We focus on a contact between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupled region with a normal two-dimensional electron gas and show that the spin Hall currents, though vanishing in the bulk of the sample, can be recovered from the edges. We also show that the current-induced spin accumulation in the spin-orbit coupled system diffuses into the normal region and contributes to the spin current in the leads.