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October 25, 2005Physical Review Letters157 citationsOpen Access

Spin Transverse Force on Spin Current in an Electric Field

SSShun-Qing Shen

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As a relativistic quantum mechanical effect, it is shown that the electron field exerts a transverse force on an electron spin 1/2 only if the electron is moving. The spin force, analogue to the Lorentz for an electron charge in a magnetic field, is perpendicular to the electric field and the spin current whose spin polarization is projected along the electric field. This spin-dependent force can be used to understand the Zitterbewegung of the electron wave packet with spin-orbit coupling and is relevant to the generation of the charge Hall effect driven by the spin current in semiconductors.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a20accda773c727c8e517e8https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.187203
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