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Temperature dependence of the intrinsic spin Hall effect in Rashba spin-orbit coupled systems

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Published 3 June 2008 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation Zhou Li et al 2008 EPL 82 67003 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/82/67003

0295-5075/82/6/67003

Abstract

We investigate the temperature dependence of the intrinsic charge and spin transport in two-dimensional semiconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. For (where α is the Rashba spin-orbit coupling parameter), the real part of the optical conductivity (σR(ω)) and the imaginary part of the spin Hall conductivity (σIsH(ω)) decrease with temperature monotonically. Outside this frequency range, σR(ω) and σIsH(ω) exhibit resonant behavior. At high frequencies, σRsH(ω) changes sign at a characteristic temperature T1. Our result suggests that the sign and magnitude of σRsH(ω) can be tuned by changing the temperature.

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