Abstract
We develop a theory of thermal fluctuations of spin density emerging in a two-dimensional electron gas. The spin fluctuations probed at spatially separated spots of the sample are correlated due to Brownian motion of electrons and spin-obit coupling. We calculate the spatiotemporal correlation functions of the spin density for both ballistic and diffusive transport of electrons and analyze them for different types of spin-orbit interaction including the isotropic Rashba model and persistent spin helix regime. The measurement of spatial spin fluctuations provides direct access to the parameters of spin-orbit coupling and spin transport in conditions close to the thermal equilibrium.
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