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Persistent spin and charge currents and magnification effects in open ring conductors subject toRashba coupling
Roberta CitroFrancesco Romeosubject
PhysicsMesoscopic physicsCondensed matter physicsSpintronicsSpin polarizationCondensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsFOS: Physical sciencesCharge (physics)Fermi energyCondensed Matter PhysicsCondensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall EffectElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsBallistic conductionMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)Spin Hall effectCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsSpin-½description
We analyze the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and of a local tunnel barrier on the persistent spin and charge currents in a one-dimensional conducting Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring symmetrically coupled to two leads. First, as an important consequence of the spin-splitting, it is found that a persistent spin current can be induced which is not simply proportional to the charge current. Second, a magnification effect of the persistent spin current is shown when one tunes the Fermi energy near the Fano-type antiresonances of the total transmission coefficient governed by the tunnel barrier strength. As an unambiguous signature of spin-orbit coupling we also show the possibility to produce a persistent pure spin current at the interference zeros of the transmittance. This widens the possibilities of employing mesoscopic conducting rings in phase-coherent spintronics applications.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-01 |