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Chin. Phys. B, 2009, Vol. 18(1): 282-286    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/1/045
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Macroscopic spin and charge transport theory

Li Da-Fang(李大芳) and Shi Jun-Ren(施均仁)
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Abstract  According to the general principle of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, we propose a set of macroscopic transport equations for the spin transport and the charge transport. In particular, the spin torque is introduced as a generalized `current density' to describe the phenomena associated with the spin non-conservation in a unified framework. The Einstein relations and the Onsager relations between different transport phenomena are established. Specifically, the spin transport properties of the isotropic non-magnetic and the isotropic magnetic two-dimensional electron gases are fully described by using this theory, in which only the macroscopic-spin-related transport phenomena allowed by the symmetry of the system are taken into account.
Keywords:  spin torque      spin Hall effect      Einstein relation      Onsager relation  
Received:  23 June 2008      Revised:  03 July 2008      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  72.25.-b (Spin polarized transport)  
  72.10.-d (Theory of electronic transport; scattering mechanisms)  
  73.63.-b (Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China (Grant No 2006CB921300), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10604063).

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Li Da-Fang(李大芳) and Shi Jun-Ren(施均仁) Macroscopic spin and charge transport theory 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 282

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