Intrinsic spin and orbital angular momentum hall effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Zhang, S ^a   Yang, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTER; INTRINSIC SPIN; SPIN CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENT;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HAMILTONIANS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

HALL EFFECT;

EID: 18144411280     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.066602     Document Type: Article

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