1. Spin Hall Effect in Symmetric Wells with Two Subbands.
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Hachiya, M. O., Lee, M., Bernardes, E., Egues, J. C., and Loss, D.
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CONDUCTIVITY of electrolytes ,ELECTRON gas ,QUANTUM wells ,HALL effect ,MAGNETIC fields - Abstract
We investigate the spin Hall conductivity σ of a clean 2D electron gas formed in a two-subband well. We determine σ as arising from the inter-subband induced spin–orbit (SO) coupling η (Calsaverini et al., Phys. Rev. B 78:155313, ) via a linear-response approach due to Rashba. By self-consistently calculating η for realistic wells, we find that σ presents a non-monotonic (and non-universal) behavior and a sign change as the Fermi energy varies between the subband edges. Although our σ is very small (i.e., ≪ `` e/4 π″), it is non-zero as opposed to linear-in- k SO models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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