Spin-Hall conductivity and electric polarization in metallic thin films

Xuhui Wang; Jiang Xiao; Aurelien Manchon; Sadamichi Maekawa

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081407

Spin-Hall conductivity and electric polarization in metallic thin films

Xuhui Wang, Jiang Xiao, Aurelien Manchon, Sadamichi Maekawa

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We predict theoretically that when a normal metallic thin film (without bulk spin-orbit coupling, such as Cu or Al) is sandwiched by two insulators, two prominent effects arise due to the interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a giant spin-Hall conductivity due to the surface scattering and a transverse electric polarization due to the spin-dependent phase shift in the spinor wave functions.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Physical Review B
Volume	87
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081407
State	Published - Feb 21 2013

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