The Edelstein effect in the presence of impurity spin-orbit scattering

Journal article (2017)

Authors

Amin Maleki Sheikhabadi University of Roma Tre
R. Raimondi University of Roma Tre
K. Shen QN/Bauer Group - AS , Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft
Research Group
QN/Bauer Group (AS) (TU Delft)
More Info
expand_more

Published Date

2017

Language

English

Reuse Rights

Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download, forward or distribute the text or part of it, without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license such as Creative Commons.

Faculty

Applied Sciences

Department

QN/Quantum Nanoscience

Research Group

QN/Bauer Group

Abstract

In this paper we study the current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, known also as the Edelstein effect. Compared to previous treatments, we consider both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction as well as the spin-orbit interaction from impurity scattering. In evaluating the Kubo formula for the spin polarization response to an applied electric field, we explicitly take into account the side-jump and skew-scattering effects. We show that the inclusion of side-jump and skew-scattering modifies the expression of the current-induced spin polarization.

Files

App132z1p35.pdf
(pdf | 0.582 Mb)
Unknown license

Download not available