Spin accumulation in metallic thin films induced by electronic impurity scattering

To explore spin accumulation, evaluating the spin galvanic and spin Hall effects, we utilize the semiclassical Boltzmann equation based on input from the relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green's function method within the density functional theory. We calculate the spin accumulation including multiple contributions, especially skew-scattering (scattering-in term), and we compare this to three different approximations, which include the...