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In this article we extend the currently established diffusion theory of spin-dependent electrical conduction by including spin-dependent thermoelectricity and thermal transport. Using this theory, we propose new experiments aimed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , F. L. Bakker , B. J. van Wees

Spin transport properties at finite electric and magnetic fields are studied by using the generalized semiclassical Boltzmann equation. It is found that the spin diffusion equation for non-equilibrium spin density and spin currents involves…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Qi , S. Zhang

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductors, is outlined. The aim is to provide a framework…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Thomas Stibius Jensen , Niels Asger Mortensen

We introduce a distinctive feature of spin-polarized transport, the Spin Coulomb Drag: there is an intrinsic source of friction for spin currents due to the Coulomb interaction between spin ``up'' and spin ``down'' electrons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

We study the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the transport of spin polarized currents in metals and doped semiconductors in the diffusive regime. In addition to well-known screening effects, we identify two additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

The description of the proximity effect in superconducting/ferromagnetic heterostructures requires to use spin-dependent boundary conditions. Such boundary conditions must take into account the spin dependence of the phase shifts acquired…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet

We show that the transverse components of spin current in a ferromagnet is linked to an off diagonal spin component of the transmission matrix at interfaces;it has little to do with the mismatch of band structures between dissimilar metals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianwei Zhang , Peter M Levy , Shufeng Zhang , Vladimir Antropov

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic symmetry breaking at interfaces. It provides a…

We study hydrodynamic thermal transport in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems placed in an in-plane magnetic field, and identify a new mechanism of thermal magnetotransport. This mechanism is caused by drag between the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

We present a combined experimental and theoretical work that investigates the magnetic proximity effect at a ferromagnetic-insulator - superconductor (FI-S) interface. The simulation is based on the boundary condition for diffusive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-21 P. Machon , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

Ferromagnetic heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the nature of spin-orbit torques arising from the interplay mediated by itinerant electrons between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xuhui Wang , Christian Ortiz Pauyac , Aurelien Manchon

A nonlocal electric response in the spin-Hall regime, resulting from spin diffusion mediating charge conduction, is predicted. The spin-mediated transport stands out due to its long-range character, and can give dominant contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Abanin , A. V. Shytov , L. S. Levitov , B. I. Halperin

We investigate the diffusive electron transport in conductors with spatially inhomogeneous magnetic properties taking into account both impurity and normal scattering. It is found that the additional interface resistance that arises due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

We present a theoretical model that describes electrical spin-detection at a ferromagnet/semiconductor interface. We show that the sensitivity of the spin detector has strong bias dependence which, in the general case, is dramatically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 Athanasios N. Chantis , Darryl L. Smith

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov