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SUBMITTER: Araki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6189066 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20181015 1
We show that an electric field applied to a strained topological Dirac semimetal, such as Na<sub>3</sub>Bi and Cd<sub>3</sub>As<sub>2</sub>, induces a spin Hall current that is quadratic in the electric field. By regarding the strain as an effective "axial magnetic field" for the Dirac electrons, we investigate the electron and spin transport semiclassically in terms of the chiral kinetic theory. The nonlinear spin Hall effect arises as the cross effect between the regular Hall effect driven by ...[more]