Pure spin current generation in a Rashba-Dresselhaus quantum channel

Details Pure spin current generation in a Rashba-Dresselhaus quantum channel Pure spin current generation in a Rashba-Dresselhaus quantum channel

2008-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1449v1

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245312 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.245312

We demonstrate a spin pump to generate pure spin current of tunable intensity and polarization in the absence of charge current. The pumping functionality is achieved by means of an ac gate voltage that modulates the Rashba constant dynamically in a local region of a quantum channel with both static Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Spin-resolved Floquet scattering matrix is calculated to analyze the whole scattering process. Pumped spin current can be divided into spin-preserved transmission and spin-flip reflection parts. These two terms have opposite polarization of spin current and are competing with each other. Our proposed spin-based device can be utilized for non-magnetic control of spin flow by tuning the ac gate voltage and the driving frequency.

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