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All-electric devices for the generation and filtering of spin currents are of crucial importance for spintronics experiments and applications. Here we consider a quantum dot between two metallic leads in the presence of spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Valentina Brosco , Markus Jerger , Pablo San-Jose , Gergely Zarand , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

We demonstrate a scalable new ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) technique based on the spin-orbit interaction. An alternating current drives FMR in uniform ferromagnetic structures patterned from the dilute magnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)As and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Fang , H. Kurebayashi , J. Wunderlich , K. Vyborny , L. P. Zarbo , R. P. Campion , A. Casiraghi , B. L. Gallagher , T. Jungwirth , A. J. Ferguson

A proposal of a spin separator based on the spin Zeeman effect in Y-shaped nanostructure with a quantum point contact is presented. Our calculations show that the appropriate tuning of the quantum point contact potential and the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-12 P. Wojcik , M. Woloszyn , B. J. Spisak , J. Adamowski

We propose a spin-mechanical device to control and detect spin currents by mechanical torque. Our hybrid nano-electro-mechanical device, which contains a nanowire with a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic interface, is designed to measure or induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Mohanty , G. Zolfagharkhani , S. Kettemann , P. Fulde

Spin torque and spin Hall effect nanooscillators generate high intensity spin wave auto oscillations on the nanoscale enabling novel microwave applications in spintronics, magnonics, and neuromorphic computing. For their operation, these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 M. Haidar , A. A. Awad , M. Dvornik , R. Khymyn , A. Houshang , J. Akerman

Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

Impressive advances in the field of molecular spintronics allow one to study electron transport through individual magnetic molecules embedded between metallic leads in the purely quantum regime of single electron tunneling. Besides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-05 Alessandro Chiesa , Emilio Macaluso , Paolo Santini , Stefano Carretta , Eva Pavarini

Magnetic skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like configurations in spin textures, are of wide conceptual and practical appeal for quantum information technologies, notably in relation to the making of so-called race-track memory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Emil Viñas Boström , Claudio Verdozzi

The coherent spin-polarized electron transport through a zigzag-edge graphene flake (ZGF), sandwiched between two semi-infinite armchair graphene nanoribbons, is investigated by means of Landauer-Buttiker formalism. To study the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Saffarzadeh , R. Farghadan

Spin-1/2 electrons are scattered through one or two diamond-like loops, made of quantum dots connected by one-dimensional wires, and subject to both an Aharonov-Bohm flux and (Rashba and Dresselhaus) spin-orbit interactions. With some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amnon Aharony , Yasuhiro Tokura , Guy Z. Cohen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Shingo Katsumoto

We investigate the spin transport through strongly anisotropic noncollinear magnetic molecules and find that the noncollinear magnetization acts as a spin-switching device for the current. Moreover, spin currents are shown to offer a viable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alessandro Soncini , Liviu F. Chibotaru

We design spin filters for particles with potentially arbitrary spin S (= 1/2, 1, 3/2,....) using a one-dimensional periodic chain of magnetic atoms as a quantum device. Describing the system within a tight-binding formalism we present an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Biplab Pal , Rudolf A. Römer , Arunava Chakrabarti

Junctions composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically proposed as electron beam splitters where incoming electron waves in one GNR can be split coherently into propagating waves in \emph{two} outgoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Sofia Sanz , Nick Papior , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Mads Brandbyge , Thomas Frederiksen

We propose a setup which allows to couple the electron spin degree of freedom to the mechanical motions of a nanomechanical system not involving any of the ferromagnetic components. The proposed method employs the strain induced spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

The understanding and calculation of spin transport are essential elements for the development of spintronics devices. Here, we propose a simple method to calculate analytically the spin accumulations, spin currents and magnetoresistances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 W. Savero Torres , A. Marty , P. Laczkowski , L. Vila , M. Jamet , J-P. Attané

Magnetically ordered, electrically insulating materials pave the way towards novel spintronic devices. In these materials the flow of magnetic excitations such as magnons results in pure spin currents. These spin currents can be driven by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Matthias Althammer , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein , Rudolf Gross

Two types of spintronic devices on the base of magnetic nanostructures containing silicon dioxide films with cobalt nanoparticles SiO2(Co) on GaAs substrate - magnetic sensors and field-effect transistor governed by applied magnetic field -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 L. V. Lutsev , A. I. Stognij , N. N. Novitskii , A. S. Shulenkov

On-chip micromagnets enable electrically controlled quantum gates on electron spin qubits. Extending the concept to a large number of qubits is challenging in terms of providing large enough driving gradients and individual addressability.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Michele Aldeghi , Rolf Allenspach , Gian Salis

A device enabling mechanically-controlled spin and electric transport in mesoscopic structures is proposed. It is based on the transfer of electrons through weak links formed by suspended nanowires, on which the charge carriers experience a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon