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Article: Deduction of pure spin current from the linear and circular spin photogalvanic effect in semiconductor quantum wells

TitleDeduction of pure spin current from the linear and circular spin photogalvanic effect in semiconductor quantum wells
Authors
KeywordsPhysics
Issue Date2007
PublisherAmerican Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://prb.aps.org/
Citation
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 2007, v. 75 n. 4, article no. 045339 How to Cite?
AbstractWe study the spin photogalvanic effect in a two-dimensional electron system with structure-inversion asymmetry by means of solution of the semiconductor optical Bloch equations. It is shown that linearly polarized light may inject a pure spin current into spin-splitting conduction bands due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling, while circularly polarized light may inject a spin-dependent photocurrent. We establish an explicit relation between the photocurrent caused by oblique incidence of circularly polarized light and the pure spin current caused by normal incidence of linearly polarized light such that we can deduce the amplitude of the spin current from the experimentally measured spin photocurrent. This method may provide a source of spin current to study spin transport in semiconductors quantitatively. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/45275
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dc.contributor.authorZhou, Ben_HK
dc.contributor.authorShen, SQen_HK
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dc.date.issued2007en_HK
dc.identifier.citationPhysical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 2007, v. 75 n. 4, article no. 045339-
dc.identifier.issn1098-0121en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/45275-
dc.description.abstractWe study the spin photogalvanic effect in a two-dimensional electron system with structure-inversion asymmetry by means of solution of the semiconductor optical Bloch equations. It is shown that linearly polarized light may inject a pure spin current into spin-splitting conduction bands due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling, while circularly polarized light may inject a spin-dependent photocurrent. We establish an explicit relation between the photocurrent caused by oblique incidence of circularly polarized light and the pure spin current caused by normal incidence of linearly polarized light such that we can deduce the amplitude of the spin current from the experimentally measured spin photocurrent. This method may provide a source of spin current to study spin transport in semiconductors quantitatively. © 2007 The American Physical Society.en_HK
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dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://prb.aps.org/en_HK
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dc.rightsCopyright 2007 by The American Physical Society. This article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045339-
dc.subjectPhysicsen_HK
dc.titleDeduction of pure spin current from the linear and circular spin photogalvanic effect in semiconductor quantum wellsen_HK
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dc.identifier.emailShen, SQ: sshen@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045339en_HK
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