Magnetoresistance due to edge spin accumulation

Because of spin-orbit interaction, an electrical current is accompanied by a spin current resulting in spin accumulation near the sample edges. Due again to spin-orbit interaction this causes a small decrease of the sample resistance. An applied magnetic field will destroy the edge spin polarization leading to a positive magnetoresistance. This effect provides means to study spin accumulation by electrical measurements. The origin and the general properties of the phenomenological equations describing coupling between charge and spin currents are also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections corresponding to the published versio

Spin Distribution in Diffraction Pattern of Two-dimensional Electron Gas with Spin-orbit Coupling

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the two-dimensional plane can be generated up to 0.42 $\hbar$. The non-trivial spin distribution is the consequence of a pure spin current in the transverse direction generated by the diffraction. The direction of the spin current can be controlled by tuning the chemical potential.Comment: 9 page

Functions in Bloch-type spaces and their moduli

Given a suitably regular nonnegative function $\omega$ on $(0,1]$, let $\mathcal B_\omega$ denote the space of all holomorphic functions $f$ on the unit ball $\mathbb B_n$ of $\mathbb C^n$ that satisfy $$|\nabla f(z)|\le C\frac{\omega(1-|z|)}{1-|z|},\qquad z\in\mathbb B_n,$$ with some fixed $C=C_f>0$. We obtain a new characterization of $\mathcal B_\omega$ functions in terms of their moduli.Comment: 9 pages; to appear in Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 41 (2016), No.

Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation near metal-insulator transition and in hopping transport

In a heavily doped semiconductor with weak spin-orbital interaction the Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation rate is known to be proportional to the Drude conductivity. We argue that in the case of weak spin-orbital interaction this proportionality goes beyond the Drude mechanism: it stays valid through the metal-insulator transition and in the range of the exponentially small hopping conductivity.Comment: 3 page

ABC-type estimates via Garsia-type norms

We are concerned with extensions of the Mason--Stothers $abc$ theorem from polynomials to analytic functions on the unit disk $\mathbb D$. The new feature is that the number of zeros of a function $f$ in $\mathbb D$ gets replaced by the norm of the associated Blaschke product $B_f$ in a suitable smoothness space $X$. Such extensions are shown to exist, and the appropriate $abc$-type estimates are exhibited, provided that $X$ admits a "Garsia-type norm", i.e., a norm sharing certain properties with the classical Garsia norm on BMO. Special emphasis is placed on analytic Lipschitz spaces.Comment: 9 page