Prediction of resonant all-electric spin pumping with spin-orbit coupling

Valentina Brosco,1,2,3 Markus Jerger,4 Pablo San-José,3 Gergely Zarand,5,6 Alexander Shnirman,7,6 and Gerd Schön3,6 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università “La Sapienza,” P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy 2ISC-CNR, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma, Italy 3Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 4Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 5Theoretical Physics Department, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economy, Budapest H-1521, Hungary 6DFG, Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 7Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Received 4 January 2010; revised manuscript received 2 July 2010; published 28 July 2010