Out-of-plane spin polarization from in-plane electric and magnetic fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Engel, Hans Andreas ^a   Rashba, Emmanuel I ^a   Halperin, Bertrand I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BLOCH EQUATIONS; SPIN POLARIZATION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 33846380958     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.036602     Document Type: Article

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