(1) Fakultät für Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany;(2) A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract:
It is shown that a homogeneous nonequlibrium spin polarization in semiconductor hetero- structures results in an electric current. The microscopic origin of the effect is an inherent asymmetry of spin-flip scattering in systems with lifted spin degeneracy caused by k-linear terms in the Hamiltonian.