We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons remain as eigenstates of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit field with negligible subband mixing, a gauge structure appears in the momentum space of the system. In particular, the momentum space exhibits a non-trivial Berry curvature which affects the transverse motion of electrons anisotropically in spin, thereby producing a finite spin-Hall effect. The effect should be detectable using standard techniques in the literature such as Kerr rotation, and be readily distinguishable from other mechanisms of the spin-Hall effect.
We study the effects of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetoconductivity in diffusive cylindrical semiconductor nanowires. Following up on our former study on tubular semiconductor nanowires, we focus in this paper on nanowire systems where no surface accumulation layer is formed but instead the electron wave function extends over the entire cross section. We take into account the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling resulting from a zinc-blende lattice and the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, which is controlled by a lateral gate electrode. The spin relaxation rate due to Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling …
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor structures of materials without inversion center (e.g. zinc-blende ${\rm A^{III}B^V}$) possess the zero-field conduction band spin-splitting (Dresselhaus term), which is linear and cubic in wavevector $k$, that arises from cubic in $k$ splitting in a bulk material. At low carrier concentration the cubic term is usually negligible. However, if we will be interested in the following dimensional quantization (in 2D plane) and the character width in this direction is comparable with the width of 2D-structure, then we have to take into account $k^3$-terms as well …
We study theoretically the spin-orbit interaction of low-energy electrons in semiconducting nanowires with a zinc-blende lattice. The effective Dresselhaus term is derived for various growth directions, including <11(-2)>-oriented nanowires. While a specific configuration exists where the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is suppressed even at confinement potentials of low symmetry, many configurations allow for a strong Dresselhaus coupling. In particular, we discuss qualitative and quantitative results for nanowire cross-sections modeled after sectors of rings or circles. The parameter depende…
In a semiconductor, collective excitations of spin textures usually decay rather fast due to D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation. The latter arises from spin-orbit coupling, which induces wave-vector-dependent spin rotations that, in conjunction with random disorder scattering, generate spin decoherence. However, symmetries occurring under certain conditions can prevent the relaxation of particular homogeneous and inhomogeneous spin textures. The inhomogeneous spin texture, termed as persistent spin helix, is especially appealing as it enables us to manipulate the spin orientation while retaining…
Spin transport analysis for a spin pseudovalve-type L_l/SC/L_r trilayer for L = {FeCr, Fe, Co, NiFe, Ni} and SC = {GaSb, InSb, InAs, GaAs, ZnSe}
Instituto de Física La Plata IFLP-CONICET, CCT La Plata. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata UNLP（拉普拉塔物理研究所 (IFLP-CONICET)、拉普拉塔中央科学技术区、拉普拉塔国立大学理学院）；Grupo de Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales Cerámicos CYTEMAC, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Exactas y de la Educación, Universidad del Cauca UNICAUCA（考卡大学自然科学、精确与教育学院物理系陶瓷材料科学与技术小组）
By means the envelope function approximation, 8-band Kane model and a finite-difference scheme with the coordinate space discretization, we numerically performed calculations of the spin-orbit coupling parameters for 2D electron gas confined in both symmetric and asymmetric [0 0 1] quantum wells based on zinc-blende III-V semiconductors. Influence of the quantum well band parameters and width as well as the magnitude of the external electric field applied along the growth direction on the Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling parameters is investigated. It has been found that in the symme…
