Spin hall current driven by quantum interferences in mesoscopic rashba rings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Souma, Satofumi ^a   Nikolić, Branislav K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INJECTION; RASHBA RINGS; SPIN HALL CURRENT; SPIN HALL CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; HALL EFFECT; HAMILTONIANS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; TUNING; VECTORS;

STORAGE RINGS;

EID: 18144414666     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.106602     Document Type: Article

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