Nonvanishing spin Hall currents in disordered spin-orbit coupling systems

2004/07/31 by K. Nomura, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Electron #Hall conductivity #Hall effect #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Materials science #Physics #Quantum Hall effect #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Quantum spin Hall effect #Scattering #Semiconductor #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin Hall effect #Spin polarization #Spin–orbit interaction #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.71.041304

published as Phys. Rev. B 71, 041304 (2005) · 4 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2004/11/24 · openalex publication_date 2005/01/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Spin-orbit coupling-induced spin Hall currents are generic in metals and doped semiconductors. It has recently been argued that the spin Hall conductivity can be dominated by an intrinsic contribution that follows from Bloch state distortion in the presence of an electric field. Here we report on numerical demonstration of the robustness of this effect in the presence of disorder scattering for the case of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interactions.

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