Can Non-Equilibrium Spin Hall Accumulation be Induced in Ballistic Nanostructures?

dc.creatorNikolic, Branislav K.
dc.creatorSouma, Satofumi
dc.creatorZarbo, Liviu P.
dc.creatorSinova, Jairo
dc.date2004-12-22
dc.date2005-07-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T15:46:02Z
dc.descriptionWe demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and it is, therefore, the principal observable signature of the spin Hall effect in two-probe semiconductor nanostructures. The magnitude of its out-of-plane component is gradually diminished by static disorder, while it can be enhanced by an in-plane transverse magnetic field. Moreover, our prediction of the longitudinal component of the spin Hall accumulation, which is insensitive to the reversal of the bias voltage, offers a smoking gun to differentiate experimentally between the extrinsic, intrinsic, and mesoscopic spin Hall mechanisms.
dc.description5 pages, 3 color EPS figures; published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412595
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412595
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 95, 046601 (2005)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.046601
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/36749
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.titleCan Non-Equilibrium Spin Hall Accumulation be Induced in Ballistic Nanostructures?
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