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Spin Hall effect in semiconductor heterostructures with cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction

O. Bleibaum (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg), S. Wachsmuth (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

Physical Review B
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.74.195330 (Physics and Astronomy)
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Abstract: We study the spin Hall effect in systems with weak cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction. To this end we derive particle and spin diffusion equations and explicit expressions for the spin-current tensor in the diffusive regime. We discuss the impact of electric fields on the Green's functions and the diffusion equations and establish a relationship between the spin-current tensor and the spin diffusion equations for the model under scrutiny. We use our results to calculate the edge spin-accumulation in a spin Hall experiment and show that there is also a Hall-like contribution to the electric current in such systems.

Published on 20 Nov. 2006