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Nonequilibrium spin transport on Au(111) surfaces
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Liu, Ming-Hao, Chen, Son-Hsien and Chang, Ching-Ray (2008) Nonequilibrium spin transport on Au(111) surfaces. Physical Review B (PRB) 78 (19), p. 195413.DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.21274
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The well-known experimentally observed sp-derived Au(111) Shockley surface states with Rashba spin splitting are perfectly fit by an effective tight-binding model, considering a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with pz orbital and nearest-neighbor hopping only. The extracted realistic band parameters are then imported to perform the Landauer-Keldysh formalism to calculate nonequilibrium spin ...
The well-known experimentally observed sp-derived Au(111) Shockley surface states with Rashba spin splitting are perfectly fit by an effective tight-binding model, considering a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with pz orbital and nearest-neighbor hopping only. The extracted realistic band parameters are then imported to perform the Landauer-Keldysh formalism to calculate nonequilibrium spin transport in a two-terminal setup sandwiching a Au(111) surface channel. Obtained results show strong spin density on the Au(111) surface and demonstrate (i) intrinsic spin-Hall effect, (ii) current-induced spin polarization, and (iii) Rashba spin precession, all of which have been experimentally observed in semiconductor heterostructures but not in metallic surface states. We therefore urge experiments in the latter for these spin phenomena.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B (PRB) | ||||||
| Publisher | American Physical Society | ||||||
| Open Access Type | Due to SHERPA/RoMEO | ||||||
| Volume | 78 | ||||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter | 19 | ||||||
| Page Range | p. 195413 | ||||||
| Date | 13 November 2008 | ||||||
| Date of publication | 22 Jun 2011 06:26 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter | ||||||
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | No | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-212748 | ||||||
| Item ID | 21274 |
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