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Electrons in double-layer semiconductor heterostructures experience a special type of spin-orbit interaction that arises in each layer from the perpendicular component of the Coulomb electric field created by electron-density fluctuations in the other layer. We show that this interaction, acting in combination with the usual spin-orbit interaction, can generate a spin current in one layer when a charge current is driven in the other. This effect is distinct symmetrywise from the spin-Hall drag. The spin current is not, in general, perpendicular to the drive current.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи033305
ЖурналPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Том84
Номер выпуска3
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 11 июл 2011

    Предметные области Scopus

  • Электроника, оптика и магнитные материалы
  • Физика конденсатов

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