Proposal for measuring mechanically equilibrium spin currents in the rashba medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 26, 2007, Pages

  Sonin, E B ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SUBSTRATES; TORQUE;

RASHBA MEDIUM; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 37649008177     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.266602     Document Type: Article

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