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动态自旋抽运系统中的扩散自旋流与局域自旋流

Diffusive versus local spin currents in dynamic spin pumping systems

Akihito Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Hosono, Gen Tatara

摘要:

利用微观理论,我们研究了由磁化动力学驱动的自旋电流的性质。在光滑磁化织构的限制下,自旋泵效应引起的主导自旋电流是扩散自旋电流,即,所述扩散仅由与自旋累积相关联的扩散引起。也就是说,没有有效场局部驱动自旋流。我们还研究了自旋-轨道相互作用,特别是逆自旋霍尔效应将抽运的自旋电流转换为电荷电流的机制。我们表明,自旋-电荷转换并不总是发生,它强烈依赖于自旋-轨道相互作用的类型。在Rashba自旋-轨道系统中,电荷流的局部部分与自旋弛豫力矩成比例,并且局部自旋流(其不产生于自旋累积)在转换中不起任何作用。相比之下,扩散自旋电流对扩散电荷电流有贡献。或者,对于由随机杂质引起的自旋-轨道相互作用,局部电荷电流与仅构成总自旋电流的一小部分的局部自旋电流成比例。显然,主导自旋电流(扩散自旋电流)没有转换成电荷电流。因此,自旋电流的性质根据其起源而根本不同,因此自旋输运和自旋-电荷转换行为需要与自旋电流产生一起讨论。

英文摘要:

Using microscopic theory, we investigate the properties of a spin current driven by magnetization dynamics. In the limit of smooth magnetization texture, the dominant spin current induced by the spin pumping effect is shown to be the diffusive spin current, i.e., the one arising from only a diffusion associated with spin accumulation. That is to say, there is no effective field that locally drives the spin current. We also investigate the conversion mechanism of the pumped spin current into a charge current by spin-orbit interactions, specifically the inverse spin Hall effect. We show that the spin-charge conversion does not always occur and that it depends strongly on the type of spin-orbit interaction. In a Rashba spin-orbit system, the local part of the charge current is proportional to the spin relaxation torque, and the local spin current, which does not arise from the spin accumulation, does not play any role in the conversion. In contrast, the diffusive spin current contributes to the diffusive charge current. Alternatively, for spin-orbit interactions arising from random impurities, the local charge current is proportional to the local spin current that constitutes only a small fraction of the total spin current. Clearly, the dominant spin current (diffusive spin current) is not converted into a charge current. Therefore, the nature of the spin current is fundamentally different depending on its origin and thus the spin transport and the spin-charge conversion behavior need to be discussed together along with spin current generation.

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