Spin-Hall conductivity and electric polarization in metallic thin films
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ArticleKAUST Department
Material Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Spintronics Theory Group
Date
2013-02-21Preprint Posting Date
2013-02-14Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/552846
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We predict theoretically that when a normal metallic thin film (without bulk spin-orbit coupling, such as Cu or Al) is sandwiched by two insulators, two prominent effects arise due to the interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a giant spin-Hall conductivity due to the surface scattering and a transverse electric polarization due to the spin-dependent phase shift in the spinor wave functions.Citation
Spin-Hall conductivity and electric polarization in metallic thin films 2013, 87 (8) Physical Review BPublisher
American Physical Society (APS)Journal
Physical Review BarXiv
1302.3490ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081407