[18p-E216-1~10] 10.4 Semiconductor spintronics, superconductor, multiferroics

[18p-E216-3] Theoretical understanding of the efficient intrinsic spin-to-charge current conversion in La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃/LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃

〇Shinobu Ohya^1,2, Daisei Araki¹, Le Duc Anh¹, Shingo Kaneta¹, Munetoshi Seki^1,2, Hitoshi Tabata^1,2, Masaaki Tanaka^1,2 (1.The Univ. of Tokyo, 2.CSRN)

Keywords:Edelstein Effect, Two dimensional electron gas, Spin-to-charge conversion

The two-dimensional-electron gas (2DEG) formed at the interface between perovskite insulating oxides LaAlO₃ (LAO) and SrTiO₃ (STO) is very promising for efficient spin-charge conversion, the so-called (inverse) Edelstein effect (IEE). This interface has the large Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which makes this system very attractive. There have been several reports on the IEE at LAO/STO, but the previous results contradict each other; the conversion signal was clearly observed at 7 K in Ref. [1], while the conversion signal strongly decreased to zero with decreasing temperature in Refs. [2,3]. Previously, we showed a very efficient IEE, which is drastically enhanced with decreasing temperature, with the conversion efficiency (λ_IEE) up to +3.9 nm at 20 K, using a high-quality all-epitaxial single-crystal LaSrMnO₃ (LSMO)/ LaAlO₃ (LAO)/ SrTiO₃ (STO) heterostructure grown via molecular beam epitaxy [4]. This value of λ_IEE is the largest positive value ever reported for LAO/STO. Here, we show that our band-structure calculation can well reproduce this behavior of λ_IEE and predicts further possible enhancement of the IEE by controlling the density and relaxation time τ of the 2DEG [5].
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[2] Y. Wang et al., Nano. Lett., 17, 7659 (2017).
[3] Q. Song et al., Sci. Adv. 3, e1602312 (2017).
[4] D. Araki, S. Ohys et al., the 66th JSAP Spring meeting, 11a-M101-7 (2019).
[5] S. Ohya, D. Araki, L. D. Anh, S. Kaneta, M. Seki, H. Tabata, and M. Tanaka, ArXiv:1906.06016.