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Is there anyone who understands (or has ever heard of) the difference between a pure spin current and a spin-polarized charge current?
It causes a great deal of confusion for me, because I cannot imagine a current flowing without an accompanying charge flow... Guesses and conjectures are welcome. I have been struggling about this for quite some time now.
Here's the paper and the context if you are interested in learning more:
(hopefully you have a Nature subscription)
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v4/n11/full/nphys1095.html
It causes a great deal of confusion for me, because I cannot imagine a current flowing without an accompanying charge flow... Guesses and conjectures are welcome. I have been struggling about this for quite some time now.
Here's the paper and the context if you are interested in learning more:
(hopefully you have a Nature subscription)
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v4/n11/full/nphys1095.html
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