Diffusion equation and spin drag in spin-polarized transport

Details Diffusion equation and spin drag in spin-polarized transport Diffusion equation and spin drag in spin-polarized transport

2001-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107149v1

Phys. Rev. B 64, 245308 (2001).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.245308

We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important, because they tend to equilibrate the momentum of the two spin species. This ``spin drag'' effect enhances the resistivity of the system. The enhancement is stronger the lower the dimension and should be measurable in for example a two dimensional electron gas with ferromagnetic contacts. We also include spin flip scattering which has two effects: it equilibrates the spin density imbalance and, provided it has a non s-wave component, also the current imbalance.

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