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Inverse Edelstein Effect: an Heuristic Derivation
No full textWe provide a heuristic derivation of the "Inverse Edelstein Effect" (IEE), in which a non-equilibrium spin accumulation in the plane of a two-dimensional (interfacial) electron gas drives an electric current perpendicular to its own direction. The drift-diffusion equations that govern the effect are derived and applied to the interpretation of recent experiments. A brief analysis based on the Kubo formula shows that the result is valid also outside the diffusive regime, i.e. when spin and momentum relaxation become comparable
Spin current swapping and Hanle spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas
No full textWe analyze the effect known as “spin current swapping” (SCS) due to electron-impurity scattering in a uniform spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas. In this effect a primary spin current Jai (lower index for spatial direction, upper index for spin direction) generates a secondary spin current Jia if i≠a, or Jjj, with j≠i, if i=a. Contrary to naive expectation, the homogeneous spin current associated with the uniform drift of the spin polarization in the electron gas does not generate a swapped spin current by the SCS mechanism. Nevertheless, a swapped spin current will be generated, if a magnetic field is present, by a completely different mechanism, namely, the precession of the spin Hall spin current in the magnetic field. We refer to this second mechanism as Hanle spin Hall effect, and we notice that it can be observed in an experiment in which a homogeneous drift current is passed through a uniformly magnetized electron gas. In contrast to this, we show that an unambiguous observation of SCS requires inhomogeneous spin currents, such as those that are associated with spin diffusion in a metal, and no magnetic field. An experimental setup for the observation of the SCS is therefore proposed
Temperature-dependent theory of tunneling in the fractional quantum Hall effect
No full textRecent experiments have studied the tunneling current between two edges of the same fractional quantum Hall liquid as a function of temperature and voltage. The experimental findings for low temperatures are at odds with the model where the edges are described as chiral Luttinger liquids, while the data at high temperatures are quite consistent with the same model. Here, we argue that a temperature dependence of the tunneling amplitude, not foreseen in previous works, can explain this discrepancy
Theory of coupled spin-charge transport due to spin-orbit interaction in inhomogeneous two-dimensional electron liquids
No full textCollective excitations and quantum incompressibility in electron-hole bilayers
No full textWe apply quantum continuum mechanics to the calculation of the excitation spectrum of a coupled electron-hole bilayer. The theory expresses excitation energies in terms of ground-state intra- and interlayer pair correlation functions, which are available from quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The final formulas for the collective modes deduced from this approach coincide with the formulas obtained in the “quasilocalized particle approximation” by Kalman et al. [G. Kalman, V. Valtchinov, and K. I. Golden, Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 3124 (1999)10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3124], and likewise the theory predicts the existence of gapped excitations in the charged channel, with the gap arising from electron-hole correlation. An immediate consequence of the gap is that the static density-density response function of the charged channel vanishes as for wave vector , rather than linearly in , as commonly expected. In this sense, the system is incompressible. This feature, which has no analog in the classical electron-hole plasma, is consistent with the existence of an excitonic ground state and implies the existence of a discontinuity in the chemical potential of electrons and holes when the numbers of electrons and holes are equal. It should be experimentally observable by monitoring the densities of electrons and holes in response to potentials that attempt to change these densities in opposite directions
Exchange and correlation effects on plasmon dispersions and Coulomb drag in low-density electron bilayers
No full textSpin Hall and Edelstein Effects in Metallic Films
No full textA normal metallic film sandwiched between two insulators may have strong spin-orbit coupling near the metal-insulator interfaces, even if spin-orbit coupling is negligible in the bulk of the film. In this paper, we study two technologically important and deeply interconnected effects that arise from interfacial spin-orbit coupling in metallic films. The first is the spin Hall effect, whereby a charge current in the plane of the film is partially converted into an orthogonal spin current in the same plane. The second is the Edelstein effect, in which a charge current produces an in-plane, transverse spin polarization. At variance with strictly two-dimensional Rashba systems, we find that the spin Hall conductivity has a finite value even if spin-orbit interaction with impurities is neglected and "vertex corrections" are properly taken into account. Even more remarkably, such a finite value becomes "universal" in a certain configuration. This is a direct consequence of the spatial dependence of spin-orbit coupling on the third dimension, perpendicular to the plane of the film. The nonvanishing spin Hall conductivity has a profound influence on the Edelstein effect, which we show to consist of two terms, the first with the standard form valid in a strictly two-dimensional Rashba system, and a second arising from the presence of the third dimension. Whereas the standard term is proportional to the momentum relaxation time, the new one scales with the spin relaxation time. Our results, although derived in a specific model, should be valid rather generally, whenever a spatially dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling is present and the electron motion is not strictly two dimensional
Intrinsic spin Hall effect at asymmetric oxide interfaces: Role of transverse wave functions
No full textTemperature Dependence of the Tunneling Amplitude between Quantum Hall Edges
No full textRecent experiments have studied the tunneling current between the edges of a fractional quantum Hall liquid as a function of temperature and voltage. The results of the experiment are puzzling because at "high" temperature (600–900 mK) the behavior of the tunneling conductance is consistent with the theory of tunneling between chiral Luttinger liquids, but at low temperature it strongly deviates from that prediction dropping to zero with decreasing temperature. In this Letter we suggest a possible explanation of this behavior in terms of the strong temperature dependence of the tunneling amplitude
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