Spin currents induced by nonuniform Rashba-type spin-orbit field

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Tsutsui, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Takeuchi, Akihito ^b   Tatara, Gen ^b   Murakami, Shuichi ^a,c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Keldysh green's function formalism; Spin current; Spin relaxation torque; Spin sink; Spin source; Spin orbit coupling; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051596572     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.80.084701     Document Type: Article

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