Proper definition of spin current in spin-orbit coupled systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Shi, Junren ^a,b   Zhang, Ping ^b,c   Xiao, Di ^b   Niu, Qian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPIN CURRENT; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLED SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT THEORY;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33644531864     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.076604     Document Type: Article

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