Spin Hall effects in diffusive normal metals

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6 September 2004

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0409130

Abstract

We consider spin and charge flow in normal metals. We employ the Keldysh formalism to find transport equations in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, interaction with magnetic impurities, and non-magnetic impurity scattering. Using the quasiclassical approximation, we derive diffusion equations which include contributions from skew scattering, side-jump scattering and the anomalous spin-orbit induced velocity. We compute the magnitude of various spin Hall effects in experimental relevant geometries and discuss when the different scattering mechanisms are important.

Keywords

SPIN HALL EFFECTS
DIFFUSIVE NORMAL
NORMAL METALS
SCATTERING
DIFFUSION
ORBIT
SKEW

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Published version: Physical Review B, 71 (4), 045123.

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