Spin-Hall Conductivity and Electric Polarization in Metallic Thin Films
arXiv:1302.3490 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081407
Abstract
We predict theoretically that, when a normal metallic thin film (without bulk spin-orbit coupling, such as Cu or Al) is sandwiched by two insulators, two prominent effects arise due to the interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a giant spin-Hall conductivity due to the surface scattering and a transverse electric polarization due to the spin-dependent phase shift in the spinor wave functions.
Accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B
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