arXiv · 1010.4900
Robust to impurity-scattering spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas
Abstract
We propose a mechanism of spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas with spatially random Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The calculations based on the Kubo formalism and kinetic equation show that in contrast to the constant spin-orbit coupling, spin Hall conductivity in the random spin-orbit field is not totally suppressed by the potential impurity scattering. Even if the regular contribution is removed by the vertex corrections, the terms we consider, remain. Therefore, the intrinsic spin-Hall effect exists being, however, non-universal.
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V. K. Dugaev, M. Inglot, E. Ya. Sherman, J. Barnas. 2010-10-23. Robust to impurity-scattering spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.82.121310
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