Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Research Année : 2024

Boosting the Edelstein effect of two-dimensional electron gases by ferromagnetic exchange

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Strontium titanate ( SrTiO 3 ) two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) have broken spatial inversion symmetry and possess a finite Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This enables the interconversion of charge and spin currents through the direct and inverse Edelstein effects, with record efficiencies at low temperature but more modest effects at room temperature. Here, we show that making these 2DEGs ferromagnetic enhances the conversion efficiency by nearly one order of magnitude. Starting from the experimental band structure of nonmagnetic SrTiO 3 2DEGs, we mimic magnetic exchange coupling by introducing an out-of-plane Zeeman term in a tight-binding model. We then calculate the band structure and spin textures for increasing internal magnetic fields and compute the Edelstein effect using a semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We find that the conversion efficiency first increases strongly with increasing magnetic field, then shows a maximum, and finally decreases. This field dependence is caused by the competition of the exchange coupling with the effective Rashba interaction. While the magnetic field enhances the splitting of band pairs (both in momentum and in spin expectation value), it also weakens the in-plane Rashba-type spin texture. The former mechanism increases the Edelstein effect, and the latter reduces it. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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hal-04778401 , version 1 (10-12-2025)

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Gabriel Lazrak, Börge Göbel, Agnès Barthélémy, Ingrid Mertig, Annika Johansson, et al.. Boosting the Edelstein effect of two-dimensional electron gases by ferromagnetic exchange. Physical Review Research, 2024, 6 (2), pp.023074. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023074⟩. ⟨hal-04778401⟩
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