中国物理B ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (7): 2981-2987.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/7/060
• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇 下一篇
颜玉珍, 李辉武, 胡梁宾
Yan Yu-Zhen(颜玉珍), Li Hui-Wu(李辉武), and Hu Liang-Bin(胡梁宾)†
摘要: This paper shows that a substantial amount of dissipationless spin-Hall current contribution may exist in the extrinsic spin-Hall effect, which originates from the spin-orbit coupling induced by the applied external electric field itself that drives the extrinsic spin-Hall effect in a nonmagnetic semiconductor (or metal). By assuming that the impurity density is in a moderate range such that the total scattering potential due to all randomly distributed impurities is a smooth function of the space coordinate, it is shown that this dissipationless contribution shall be of the same orders of magnitude as the usual extrinsic contribution from spin-orbit dependent impurity scatterings (or may even be larger than the latter one). The theoretical results obtained are in good agreement with recent relevant experimental results.
中图分类号: (Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects)