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We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and precesses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Milena Filipovic , Cecilia Holmqvist , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

Spin polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations is discussed in terms of nonequilibrium Green functions formalism in the finite-U slave boson mean field approximation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński

We study the influence of spin polarization on the degree of coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots. To this end, we identify transport regimes in which the degree of coherence can be related to the visibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Bastian Hiltscher , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We develop an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for spin-orbit (SO) interaction in bent carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the electrons forming the $\pi$ bonds between the nearest neighbor atoms. We account for the bend of the CNT and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 E. N. Osika , B. Szafran

We propose and theoretically investigate spin superconducting qubits. Spin superconducting qubit consists of a single spin confined in a Josephson junction. We show that owing to spin-orbit interaction, superconducting difference across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , Yu. V. Nazarov

In the presence of spin-orbit interactions, the steady state established for spin distributions in an electric field is qualitatively different from the steady state for charge distributions. This is primarily because the steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , Roland Winkler

We investigate spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through a system of two coupled quantum dots attached to reservoirs of spin-polarized electrons. Generally, we focus on the strongly correlated regime of transport. To this end, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Łukasz Karwacki , Piotr Trocha

We develop a realistic and analytically tractable model to describe the spin current which arises in a quantum point contact (QPC) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) upon a small voltage is applied. In the model, the QPC is considered as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Vladimir A. Sablikov

Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

We discuss the electron spin resonance in two-dimensional electron gas at zero external magnetic field. This spin-resonance is due to the transitions between the electron states, which are split by the spin-orbit (SO) interaction, and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

We evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

The ability to manipulate electron spins with voltage-dependent electric fields is key to the operation of quantum spintronics devices, such as spin-based semiconductor qubits. A natural approach to electrical spin control exploits the…

At low temperatures, quantum corrections, originating from the interference of the many paths an electron may take between two points, tend to dominate the transport properties of two-dimensional conductors. These quantum corrections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Frederico Sousa , David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

By means of ab initio calculations and spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy experiments we show how to manipulate the local spin-polarization of a ferromagnetic surface by creating a complex energy dependent magnetic structure. We…

Understanding the coherent properties of electron spins driven by electric fields is crucial for their potential application in quantum-coherent nanoscience. In this work, we address two distinct driving mechanisms in electric-field driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jose Reina-Galvez , Matyas Nachtigall , Nicolas Lorente , Jan Martinek , Christoph Wolf

Extending a previous work on spin precession in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling, we study the role of deformation in the external confinement. Small elliptical deformations are enough to alter the precessional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We investigate spin-polarized transport phenomena through double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads in series. By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we calculate the conductance in the Kondo regime for two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

The optical susceptibility is a local, minimally-invasive and spin-selective probe of the ground state of a two-dimensional electron gas. We apply this probe to a gated monolayer of MoS$_2$. We demonstrate that the electrons are spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jonas G. Roch , Guillaume Froehlicher , Nadine Leisgang , Peter Makk , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Richard J. Warburton