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Anomalous spin Hall effects in Dresselhaus (110) quantum wells

2010/05/31 by Ming‐Hao Liu, Ming-Hao Liu, Ching‐Ray Chang +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Hall effect #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Quantum spin Hall effect #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin Hall effect #Spin polarization #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.82.155327

published as Phys. Rev. B 82, 155327 (2010) · 6 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2010/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2010/10/29 · arxiv updated 2015/03/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Anomalous spin Hall effects that belong to the intrinsic type in Dresselhaus (110) quantum wells are discussed. For the out-of-plane spin component, antisymmetric current-induced spin polarization induces opposite spin Hall accumulation, even though there is no spin-orbit force due to Dresselhaus (110) coupling. A surprising feature of this spin Hall induction is that the spin accumulation sign does not change upon bias reversal. Contribution to the spin Hall accumulation from the spin Hall induction and the spin deviation due to intrinsic spin-orbit force as well as extrinsic spin scattering can be straightforwardly distinguished simply by reversing the bias. For the in-plane component, inclusion of a weak Rashba coupling leads to a new type of Sy intrinsic spin Hall effect solely due to spin-orbit-force-driven spin separation.

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