Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect in the Two-Dimensional Hole Gas

2004/11/30 by B. Andrei Bernevig, Shou-Cheng Zhang · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Fermi gas #Hall effect #Impurity #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Physics #Point reflection #Quantum Hall effect #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Quantum spin Hall effect #Scattering #Semiconductor #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin Hall effect #Spin polarization #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.other

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.016801

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 016801 (2005) · Minor typos fixed, one reference added

arxiv created 2004/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2005/06/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We show that two types of spin-orbit coupling in the 2 dimensional hole gas, with and without inversion symmetry breaking, contribute to the intrinsic spin-Hall effect. Furthermore, the vertex correction due to impurity scattering vanishes in both cases, in sharp contrast to the case of usual Rashba coupling in the electron band. Recently, the spin-Hall effect in a hole doped GaAs semiconductor has been observed experimentally by Wunderlich et al. [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 047204 (2005).]. From the fact that the lifetime broadening is smaller than the spin splitting, and the fact impurity vertex corrections vanish in this system, we argue that the observed spin-Hall effect should be in the intrinsic regime.

Citations

• Spin Current and Polarization in Impure Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling
• Spin-Hall effect in a disordered two-dimensional electron system
• Observation of the Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors
• Rashba spin splitting in two-dimensional electron and hole systems
• Anomalous Rashba spin splitting in two-dimensional hole systems
• SU(2)non-Abelian holonomy and dissipationless spin current in semiconductors
• Spin-Hall transport of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells
• Absence of vertex correction for the spin Hall effect inp-type semiconductors
• Universal Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect
• Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current at Room Temperature

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