Spin Hall and Edelstein Effects in pseudospin-1 systems: significant contribution of vertex corrections

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spin Hall and Edelstein effects in 2D pseudospin-1 systems, demonstrating that vertex corrections significantly influence these effects and that their conductivities can be modulated by Rashba coupling strength.

Contribution

It reveals the crucial role of vertex corrections in the spin Hall and Edelstein effects within pseudospin-1 systems, a factor often neglected in prior studies.

Findings

Vertex corrections dominate the spin Hall and Edelstein effects in the system.

Response functions are highly sensitive to Rashba coupling strength.

Effects can be tuned by adjusting the Rashba interaction.

Abstract

Edelstein and spin Hall effect response functions for a two-dimensional (2D) system of pseudospin-1 particles is investigated. These two response functions denoted by $ \sigma_{SH} $ and $ \sigma_{EE} $ have been analyzed in a pseudospin-1 particle system in the presence of the Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction using the Kubo-Streda technique and vertex corrections with non-magnetic impurities. Then, for a given range of the Rashba coupling, response functions of the spin Hall effect (SHE) and Edelstein effect (EE) have been estimated at various energy gaps and Fermi energies. Results indicate that in this type of the two-dimensional materials, SHE and EE are essentially induced by the vertex corrections and without considering these corrections the amount of these effects are really negligible. It has also been realized that SHE and EE conductivities can be modulated by the Rashba coupling strength at low and intermediate level of this spin-orbit type interaction.