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Spin-Galvanic Effect in Quantum Wells

S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, V. V. Bel'kov, S. A. Tarasenko, M. Sollinger, D. Schowalter, D. Weiss, W. Wegscheider, W. Prettl

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0301390

Abstract

It is shown that a homogeneous non-equlibrium spin-polarization in semiconductor heterostructures results in an electric current. The microscopic origin of the effect is an inherent asymmetry of spin-flip scattering in systems with lifted spin degeneracy caused by k-linear terms in the Hamiltonian.

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