The 14th Workshop on Nanoscale and Mesoscopic Systems

"Spin Hall Effect"
Jun 09--10, 2006
Korea Institute for Advanced Study

This time, we will discuss the spin Hall effect. Recently, the spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron (hole) gas with the spin-orbit coupling has attracted remarkable interest. The interest has been intensified even further by the controversies about the finiteness of the spin Hall conductance and its concept itself. The scope of the workshop is to provide the basic introduction to the spin Hall effect and the elementary physical descriptions of it, to address the fundamental issues on the definition of the spin Hall conductance, to review the key theoretical and experimental developements, and to discuss the perspectives of the subject in the future.


"Spin Hall Effect" (theory) Prof. Shen, Shun-Qing (University of Hong Kong) 
Introductory Spintronics 
Spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors: electric control of quantum spin
Spin current and spin Hall effect
(Lecture Note)

"Spin Transverse Force" (theory) Prof. Shen, Shun-Qing (University of Hong Kong) 
Spin transverse force: a pure quantum mechanical quantity
Applications of spin transverse force
Solution of single spin in an electric field
Spin force balance in a steady state
Spin force and anomalous Hall effect
Spin force and spin Hall effect
(Lecture Note)

"Experiments on Anomalsou Hall Effect" (experiment) Prof. Chun, Seung-Hyun (Sejong University) Various aspects of Hall effect
Intrinsic anomalous Hall effect from real-space Berry phase
Intrinsic anomalous Hall effect from momentum-space Berry phase
(Lecture Note)

"Experiments on Spin Hall Effect" (experiment) Prof. Chun, Seung-Hyun (Sejong University)
Proposals to measure spin Hall effect
Recent experimental results and interpretations
(Lecture Note)

"Optical Femtosecond Magnetic Switching" (experiment) Prof. Rasing, T. H. M. (University of Nijmegen)

"Berry Phase and the Hall Effect" (theory) Prof. Park, Kwon (KIAS)
Hall effect: a semi-classical view
Berry phase
Hall effect without magnetic field: anomalous Hall effect
Anomalous Hall effect v.s. spin Hall effect

"Spin and the Quantum Hall Effect" (theory) Prof. Park, Kwon (KIAS) 
Quantum Hall effect
Skyrmion and Berry phase
Other spin effects in the quantum Hall systems
(Lecture Note)


Satellite Seminar, "Observation of spin current: theory and experiment"
by Shen, Shun-Qing at KIAS (Room 1423) 
(Lecture Note)