Spontaneous spin-polarized current in a nonuniform Rashba interaction system

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Sun, Qing Feng ^a   Xie, X C ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 28644444053     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.155321     Document Type: Article

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