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    Spin generation away from boundaries by nonlinear transport
    (American Physical Society (APS), 2007) Finkler, Ilya; Engel, Hans-Andreas; Rashba, Emmanuel; Halperin, Bertrand
    Spin polarization may be generated far from the boundaries of a sample by nonlinear effects of an electric current, in the presence of "extrinsic" spin-orbit interactions, even when such generation is forbidden in the linear regime. We present a Corbino model where spin accumulation results from a combination of current gradients, nonlinearity, and cubic anisotropy. Further, we show that even with isotropic conductivity, nonlinear effects in a low-symmetry sidearm geometry can generate spin polarization far away from boundaries. Finally, we find that drift from the boundaries dominates spin polarization patterns observed in recent experiments on GaAs by Sih et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096605 (2006)].
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    Microwave-induced zero-resistance states are not necessarily static
    (American Physical Society, 2009) Finkler, Ilya; Halperin, Bertrand
    We study the effect of inhomogeneities in Hall conductivity on the nature of the zero resistance states seen in the microwave irradiated two-dimensional electron systems in weak perpendicular magnetic fields and show that time-dependent domain patterns may emerge in some situations. For an annular Corbino geometry, with an equilibrium charge density that varies linearly with radius, we find a time-periodic nonequilibrium solution, which might be detected by a charge sensor, such as a single electron transistor. For a model on a torus, in addition to static domain patterns seen at high and low values of the equilibrium charge inhomogeneity, we find that, in the intermediate regime, a variety of nonstationary states can also exist. We catalog the possibilities we have seen in our simulations. Within a particular phenomenological model, we show that linearizing the nonlinear charge continuity equation about a particularly simple domain-wall configuration and analyzing the eigenmodes allows us to estimate the periods of the solutions to the full nonlinear equation.