Mechanically driven spin-orbit-active weak links

M. Jonson and R.I. Shekhter

Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden

O. Entin-Wohlman and A. Aharony

Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Physics Department, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel

H.C. Park

Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34051, Republic of Korea

D. Radić

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička 32, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
E-mail: dradic@phy.hr
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Received August 30, 2018, published online October 26, 2018

We show that new functionality of spin-orbit-active electronic weak links can be achieved by their time-dependent mechanical deformation. As an illustration we use a simple model to calculate the electronic spin cur-rent generated by rotating a bent spin-orbit-active nanowire coupled to bulk metallic leads.

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