2014年9月
Weak localization, spin relaxation, and spin diffusion: Crossover between weak and strong Rashba coupling limits
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
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- 巻
- 90
- 号
- 12
- 開始ページ
- 125309
- 終了ページ
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.125309
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-independent disorder, focusing on the role of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in transport. Spin-orbit coupling contributes to spin relaxation, transforming the quantum interference contribution to conductivity from a negative weak localization (WL) correction to a positive weak antilocalization (WAL) correction. The importance of spin channel mixing in transport is largest in the regime where the Bloch state energy uncertainty h/tau and the Rashba spin-orbit splitting Delta(SO) are comparable. We find that as a consequence of this spin channel mixing, the WL-WAL crossover is nonmonotonic in this intermediate regime, which can be related to recent experimental studies of transport at two-dimensional oxide interfaces.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.125309
- ISSN : 2469-9950
- eISSN : 2469-9969
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000342128000004