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强自旋轨道相互作用半导体纳米结构中自旋电流的产生与探测

Generation and Detection of Spin Currents in Semiconductor Nanostructures with Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction

Fabrizio Nichele, Szymon Hennel, Patrick Pietsch, Werner Wegscheider, Peter Stano, Philippe Jacquod, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin

摘要:

利用电子自旋存储、传输和操纵信息是自旋电子学的核心。未来自旋电子学应用的基础是在固态系统中控制自旋电流的能力。在迄今为止提出的不同平台中,具有强自旋轨道相互作用的半导体特别有吸引力,因为它们承诺使用全电子协议进行快速和可扩展的自旋控制。在这里,我们演示了半导体纳米结构中纯自旋电流的产生和测量。产生是纯电的,并且由具有强自旋轨道场的材料中的自旋动力学介导。测量是使用自旋-电荷转换技术,基于磁场对称性容易测量的电量。通过量子点接触的电导校准自旋-电荷转换,我们定量测量了多端GaAs点中的介观自旋霍尔效应。我们报告的自旋电流为174 pA,对应于34%的自旋霍尔角。

英文摘要:

Storing, transmitting, and manipulating information using the electron spin resides at the heart of spintronics. Fundamental for future spintronics applications is the ability to control spin currents in solid state systems. Among the different platforms proposed so far, semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction are especially attractive as they promise fast and scalable spin control with all-electrical protocols. Here we demonstrate both the generation and measurement of pure spin currents in semiconductor nanostructures. Generation is purely electrical and mediated by the spin dynamics in materials with a strong spin-orbit field. Measurement is accomplished using a spin-to-charge conversion technique, based on the magnetic field symmetry of easily measurable electrical quantities. Calibrating the spin-to-charge conversion via the conductance of a quantum point contact, we quantitatively measure the mesoscopic spin Hall effect in a multiterminal GaAs dot. We report spin currents of 174 pA, corresponding to a spin Hall angle of 34%.

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