Semiclassical spin transport in spin-orbit-coupled bands |
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Authors: | Culcer Dimitrie Sinova Jairo Sinitsyn N A Jungwirth T MacDonald A H Niu Q |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA. |
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Abstract: | Motivated by recent interest in novel spintronics effects, we develop a semiclassical theory of spin transport that is valid for spin-orbit coupled bands. Aside from the obvious convective term in which the average spin is transported at the wave packet group velocity, the spin current has additional contributions from the wave packet's spin and torque dipole moments. Electric field corrections to the group velocity and carrier spin contribute to the convective term. Summing all terms we obtain an expression for the intrinsic spin-Hall conductivity of a hole-doped semiconductor, which agrees with the Kubo formula prediction for the same quantity. We discuss the calculation of spin accumulation, which illustrates the importance of the torque dipole near the boundary of the system. |
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