Spin Hall conductance in a Y-shaped junction device in presence of tunable spin-orbit coupling
arXiv:1607.03352 · doi:10.1016/j.physe.2017.03.021
Abstract
We study spin Hall effect in a three terminal Y-shaped device in presence of tunable spin-orbit (SO) interactions via Landauer-Büttiker formalism. We have evolved a fabrication technique for creating different angular separation between the two arms of the Y-shaped device so as to investigate the effect of angular width on the spin Hall conductance (SHC). A smaller angular separation yields a larger conductance. Also arbitrary orientation of the spin quantization axes yields interesting three dimensional contour maps for the SHC corresponding to different angular separation of the Y-shaped device. The results explicitly show breaking of the spin rotational symmetry. Further a systematic study is carried out to compare and contrast between the different SO terms, such as Rashba and Dresselhaus SO interactions and the interplay of the angular separation therein.
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