Transport Equations and Spin-Charge Propagating Mode in the Two Dimensional Hole Gas

Taylor L. Hughes, B. Andrei Bernevig, Yaroslaw B. Bazaliy

Published 2006-01-16Version 1

We find that the spin-charge motion in a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) supports a propagating mode of cubic dispersion apart from the diffusive mode due to momentum scattering. Propagating modes seem to be a generic property of systems with spin-orbit coupling. Through a rigorous Keldysh approach, we obtain the transport equations for the 2DHG, we analyze the behavior of the hole spin relaxation time, the diffusion coefficients, and the spin-charge coupled motion.