Spin currents in semiconductors: Redefinition and counterexample

HJ Drouhin, G Fishman, JE Wegrowe - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We show that effective Hamiltonians in solids lead to specific problems when dealing with
spin-orbit interaction. We prove that the usual construction, where the velocity operator is …

Spin injection via (110)-grown semiconductor barriers

PS Alekseev, MM Glazov, SA Tarasenko - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We study the tunneling of conduction electrons through a (110)-oriented single-barrier
heterostructure grown from III-V semiconductor compounds. It is shown that, due to low …