Spin current and rectification in Luttinger liquids

Braunecker, Bernd; Feldman, D. E.; Li, Feifei

Spin current and rectification in Luttinger liquids

Authors

Braunecker, Bernd

Feldman, D. E.

Li, Feifei

Description

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of voltages, the spin current can exhibit a power dependence on the ac voltage bias with a negative exponent. The spin current expressed in units of $\hbar/2$ per second can become much larger than the charge current in units of the electron charge per second. The spin current generation requires neither spin-polarized particle injection nor time-dependent magnetic fields.
14 pages, 5 figures