The role of gauge symmetry in spintronics

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.08.003zbMATH Open1252.81128arXiv1107.0332OpenAlexW3103022504MaRDI QIDQ654883FDOQ654883

V. J. Vasquez Otoya, Rodrigo F. Sobreiro

Publication date: 23 December 2011

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we employ a field theoretical approach to explain the nature of the non-conserved spin current in spintronics. In particular, we consider the usual U(1) gauge theory for the electromagnetism at classical level in order to obtain the broken continuity equation involving the spin current and spin-transfer torque. Inspired in the recent work of A. Vernes, B. L. Gyorffy and P. Weinberger where they obtain such equation in terms of relativistic quantum mechanics, we formalize their result in terms of the well known currents of field theory such as the Bargmann-Wigner current and the chiral current. Thus, an interpretation of spintronics is provided in terms of Noether currents (conserved or not) and symmetries of the electromagnetism. In fact, the main result of the present work is that the non-conservation of the spin current is associated to the gauge invariance of physical observables where the breaking term is proportional to the chiral current. Moreover, we generalize their result by including the electromagnetic field as a dynamical field instead of an external one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0332

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zbMATH Keywords

QEDgauge theoriesrelativistic spintronics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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