Quantum spin Hall effect in graphene

CL Kane, EJ Mele - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a
single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature …

Spin current and magnetoelectric effect in noncollinear magnets

H Katsura, N Nagaosa, AV Balatsky - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
A new mechanism of the magnetoelectric effect based on the spin supercurrent is
theoretically presented in terms of a microscopic electronic model for noncollinear magnets …

Experimental Observation of the Spin-Hall Effect in a Two-Dimensional<? format?> Spin-Orbit Coupled Semiconductor System

J Wunderlich, B Kaestner, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a 2D hole system with spin-
orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of ap-n junction light-emitting diode with a …

Berry phase correction to electron density of states in solids

D Xiao, J Shi, Q Niu - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
Liouville's theorem on the conservation of phase-space volume is violated by Berry phase in
the semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons. This leads to a modification of the phase …

Optical spin Hall effect

A Kavokin, G Malpuech, M Glazov - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
A remarkable analogy is established between the well-known spin Hall effect and the
polarization dependence of Rayleigh scattering of light in microcavities. This dependence …

Spatial imaging of the spin Hall effect and current-induced polarization in two-dimensional electron gases

V Sih, RC Myers, YK Kato, WH Lau, AC Gossard… - Nature physics, 2005 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling in semiconductors relates the spin of an electron to its momentum, and
provides a pathway for electrically initializing and manipulating electron spins for …

Quantum transport theory for nanostructures with Rashba spin-orbital interaction

Q Sun, J Wang, H Guo - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the metal-
QD-metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device-scattering region which …

Theory of Spin Hall Conductivity in -Doped GaAs

HA Engel, BI Halperin, EI Rashba - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting from spin-orbit
coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew-scattering and side-jump contributions …

Nondissipative spin Hall effect via quantized edge transport

L Sheng, DN Sheng, CS Ting, FDM Haldane - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
The spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system on honeycomb lattice with both
intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings is studied numerically. Integer quantized spin Hall …

Spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional Rashba electron gas

OV Dimitrova - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
Spin-Hall conductivity and Pauli susceptibility of 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbital
interaction is studied theoretically in the semiclassical limit k F l⪢ 1. Static spin-Hall …