### Session X10: Focus Session: Spin Transport/Novel Magnetic Semiconductors

8:00 AM–10:12 AM, Friday, March 25, 2005
LACC Room: 153B

Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.MAR.X10.1

### Abstract: X10.00001 : Spin susceptibility of a 2D gas with Rashba spin-orbit in the HF approximation

8:00 AM–8:12 AM

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#### Authors:

Gabriele Giuliani
Stefano Chesi
(Department of Physics, Purdue University)

The in plane and out of plane spin susceptibility $\chi_S^{ \parallel (\perp)} (r_s, \bar{\alpha})$ in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit is studied within the Hartree-Fock approximation in both the static ($\omega \rightarrow 0$ first then $q \rightarrow 0$) and adiabatic ($q \rightarrow 0$ first then $\omega \rightarrow 0$) limits. The latter is related to what is commonly referred to as the spin-Hall conductivity. The behavior of $\chi_S^{ \parallel (\perp)} (r_s, \bar{\alpha})$ as a function of the density parameter $r_s$ and the spin-orbit coupling strength $\bar{\alpha}$ has been explored. At variance with a recent perturbative analysis, we find that, as one would expect, the exchange interaction tends to increase $\chi_S^{ \parallel (\perp)} (r_s, \bar{\alpha})$ over its non interacting value. The interplay between the differential instability of the paramagnetic chiral state as signaled by the divergence of $\chi_S^{ \parallel (\perp)} (r_s, \bar{\alpha})$ and the (first order) spin polarization transition to a spin-textured chiral state will be discussed.

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