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We study the 2D Kondo insulators in a uniform magnetic field using quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the particle-hole symmetric Kondo lattice model and a mean field analysis of the Periodic Anderson model. We find that the field induces a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Milat , F. F. Assaad , M. Sigrist

Spin-$S$ Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnets on the Kagome lattice offer, when placed in a magnetic field, a fantastic playground to observe exotic phases of matter with (magnetic analogs of) superfluid, charge, bond or nematic orders, or a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Thibaut Picot , Marc Ziegler , Roman Orus , Didier Poilblanc

Ferromagnetic transitions between quantum Hall states with different polarization at a fixed filling factor can be studied by varying the ratio of cyclotron and Zeeman energies in tilted magnetic field experiments. However, an ability to…

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

The joint action of a synthetic gauge potential and of atomic contact repulsion in a one-dimensional alkaline-earth(-like) fermionic gas with nuclear spin I leads to the existence of a hierarchy of fractional insulating and conducting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-28 S. Barbarino , L. Taddia , D. Rossini , L. Mazza , R. Fazio

Spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors relates the spin of an electron to its momentum and provides a pathway for electrically initializing and manipulating electron spins for applications in spintronics and spin-based quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Sih , R. C. Myers , Y. K. Kato , W. H. Lau , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Electrical spin injection from Fe into Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well heterostructures is demonstrated in small (< 500 Oe) in-plane magnetic fields. The measurement is sensitive only to the component of the spin that precesses about the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Strand , B. D. Schultz , A. F. Isakovic , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We explore the possibility of using the inhomogeneous magnetic field carried by an Abrikosov vortex in a type-II superconductor to localize spin-polarized textures in a nearby magnetic semiconductor quantum well. We show how Zeeman-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-20 Tatiana G. Rappoport , Mona Berciu , Boldizsar Janko

In wide GaAs quantum wells where two electric subbands are occupied we apply a parallel magnetic field or increase the electron density to cause a crossing of the two $N=0$ Landau levels of these subbands and with opposite spins. Near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yang Liu , S. Hasdemir , J. Shabani , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Spin gapless semiconductor (SGS) has attracted long attention since its theoretical prediction, while concrete experimental hints are still lack in the relevant Heusler alloys. Here in this work, by preparing the series alloys of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-01 Cheng Zhang , Shuang Pan , Peihao Wang , Yuchen Men , Xiang Li , Yuqing Bai , Li Tang , Feng Xu , Guizhou Xu

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

We have measured magnetic field dependences of the attenuation and velocity of surface acoustic waves in a high-mobility $n$-GaAs/AlGaAs structure with a wide quantum well. The results allowed us to find the complex conductance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 I. L. Drichko , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Y. M. Galperin

We study the equilibrium properties of a model of magnetic diblock copolymer where each monomer is decorated with an Ising-like spin. Spins interact ferromagnetically within each block and antiferromagnetically across blocks, generating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-27 Alberto Raiola , Emanuele Locatelli , Davide Marenduzzo , Enzo Orlandini

We demonstrate methods to locally control the spin rotation of moving electrons in a GaAs channel. The Larmor frequency of optically-injected spins is modulated when the spins are dragged through a region of spin-polarized nuclei created at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. E. Nowakowski , G. D. Fuchs , S. Mack , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization from the hyperfine interaction between nonequilibrium electronic spins and nuclear spins coupled to them in semiconductor nanostructures. We derive the time and position dependence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ionel Tifrea , Michael E. Flatte

Magnetic and electronic states of an Ising-spin Kondo lattice model on a kagome lattice are investigated by a Monte Carlo simulation. In addition to the conventional ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic orders, we show that this model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-18 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yukitoshi Motome

The dynamical spin susceptibility is studied in the magnetically-disordered phase of heavy-Fermion systems near the antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition. In the framework of the $S=1/2$ Kondo lattice model, we introduce a perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Pepin , M. Lavagna

We investigate the magnetic response in the quantized spin Hall (SH) phase of layered-honeycomb lattice system with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling lambda_SO and on-site Hubbard U. The response is characterized by a parameter g= 4 U a^2 d /…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-04-29 Jun Goryo , Nobuki Maeda

In the new van der Waals Kondo-lattice Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, itinerant ferromagnetism and heavy fermionic behaviour coexist. Both the key properties of such a system namely a spin-polarized Fermi surface and a low Fermi momentum are expected to…

Weyl semimetals are characterized by the presence of massless band dispersion in momentum space. When a Weyl semimetal meets magnetism, large anomalous transport properties emerge as a consequence of its topological nature. Here, using…