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Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Electrical control and detection of spin precession are experimentally demonstrated by using spin-resolved edge states in the integer quantum Hall regime. Spin precession is triggered at a corner of a biased metal gate, where electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 T. Nakajima , Kuan-Ting Lin , S. Komiyama

We examine a modified drift-diffusion formalism to describe spin transport near an ultrathin magnet whose thickness is similar to or less than the spin dephasing length. Most of the previous theories on spin torque assume the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyoung-Whan Kim

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

In addition to spin, electrons in many materials possess an additional pseudo-spin degree of freedom known as 'valley'. In materials where the spin and valley degrees of freedom are weakly coupled, they can be both excited and controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We report on theoretical and experimental study of the spin polarization recovery and Hanle effect for the charge carriers interacting with the fluctuating nuclear spins in the semiconductor structures. We start the theoretical description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 D. S. Smirnov , E. A. Zhukov , D. R. Yakovlev , E. Kirstein , M. Bayer , A. Greilich

The recent discovery of two-dimensional magnetic insulators has generated a great deal of excitement over their potential for nanoscale manipulation of spin or magnetism. One intriguing use for these materials is to put them in contact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Aron W. Cummings

We study the transport of spin polarized electrons in n-GaAs using spatially resolved continuous wave Faraday rotation. From the measured steady state distribution, we determine spin relaxation times under drift conditions and, in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beck , C. Metzner , S. Malzer , G. H. Döhler

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

The effect of nuclear spins in Fe/GaAs all-electrical spin-injection devices is investigated. At temperatures below 50 K, strong modifications of the non-local spin signal are found that are characteristic for hyperfine coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 G. Salis , A. Fuhrer , S. F. Alvarado

The spin density matrix for spin-3/2 hole systems can be decomposed into a sequence of multipoles which has important higher-order contributions beyond the ones known for electron systems [R. Winkler, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{70}, 125301…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitrie Culcer , C. Lechner , R. Winkler

Spin transport in graphene carries the potential of a long spin diffusion length at room temperature. However, extrinsic relaxation processes limit the current experimental values to 1-2 um. We present Hanle spin precession measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-04 C. Jozsa , T. Maassen , M. Popinciuc , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

We suggest a generalization of nonlinear $\sigma$-model for diffusive superconducting systems to account for magnetoelectric effects due to spin-orbit scattering. In the leading orders of spin-orbit strength and gradient expansion it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-02 P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

Injection, transmission, and detection of spins in a conducting channel are the basic ingredients of spintronic devices. Long spin lifetimes during transit are an important ingredient in realizing this technology. An attractive platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Evan Sosenko , Huazhou Wei , Vivek Aji

We launch a first investigation into how a light scalar field coupled both conformally and disformally to matter influences the evolution of spinning point-like bodies. Working directly at the level of the equations of motion, we derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville , Leong Khim Wong

Spin Hall effects have surged as promising phenomena for spin logics operations without ferromagnets. However, the magnitude of the detected electric signals at room temperature in metallic systems has been so far underwhelming. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 W. Savero Torres , J. F. Sierra , L. A. Benítez , F. Bonell , M. V. Costache , S. O. Valenzuela

We demonstrate the predicted out-of-plane precession induced by spin transfer in magnetic nanostructures with in-plane magnetic field. We show that other magnetic excitations have a significant effect on the stability of the out-of plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Weng Lee Lim , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

Propagating, directionally dependent, polarized spin-currents are created in an anisotropic planar semiconductor microcavity, via Rayleigh scattering of optically injected polaritons in the optical spin Hall regime. The influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 A. Amo , T. C. H. Liew , C. Adrados , E. Giacobino , A. V. Kavokin , A. Bramati

We derive exact expressions for the degree of lineal polarization over a resolved or integrated stellar disc due to resonance scattering and the Hanle effect from a dipolar or quadrupolar distribution of magnetic fields. We apply the theory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Manso Sainz , M. J. Martínez González

We uncover two anomalous features in the nonlocal transport behavior of two-dimensional metallic materials with spin-orbit coupling. Firstly, the nonlocal resistance can have negative values and oscillate with distance, even in the absence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Chunli Huang , Y. D Chong , Miguel A. Cazalilla