Nonlocal magnetolectric effects in diffusive conductors with spatially inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling
Nonlocal magnetolectric effects in diffusive conductors with spatially inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling
We present a theoretical study of nonlocal magnetoelectric effects in diffusive hybrid structures with an intrinsic linear-in-momentum spin-orbit coupling (SOC) which is assumed to be spatially inhomogeneous. Our analysis is based on the SU(2)-covariant drift-diffusion equations from which we derive the BC at hybrid interfaces. Within this formulation, the spin …