Highly Efficient Induction of Spin Polarization by Circularly-Polarized Electromagnetic Waves in the Rashba Spin-Orbit Systems

Masahito Mochizuki, Keisuke Ihara, Jun-ichiro Ohe +1

We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picose…