title: Suppression of spin-orbit scattering in strongly disordered gold nanojunctions.
abstract: We discovered that spin-orbit scattering in strongly disordered gold nanojunctions is strongly suppressed relative to that in weakly disordered gold thin films. This property is unusual because in weakly disordered films spin-orbit scattering increases with disorder. Granularity and freezing of spin-orbit scattering inside the grains explains the suppression of spin-orbit scattering. We propose a generalized Elliot-Yafet relation that applies to a strongly disordered granular regime.
authors.affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anaya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.forename: And D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Davidović