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We show that a tilted magnetic field transforms the structure and THz dynamics of charge domains in a biased semiconductor superlattice. At critical field values, strong coupling between the Bloch and cyclotron motion of a miniband electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 M. T. Greenaway , A. G. Balanov , E. Schoell , T. M. Fromhold

We develop a consistent semiclassical theory of spin dynamics for an isotropic ferromagnet with a spin $ S=1$ taking into consideration both bilinear and biquadratic over spin operators exchange interaction. For such non-Heisenberg magnets,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. A. Ivanov , A. Yu. Galkin , R. S. Khymyn , A. Yu. Merkulov

We consider ballistic transport through a lateral, two-dimensional superlattice with experimentally realizable, sinusoidally oscillating Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. The periodic structure of the rectangular lattice produces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Viktor Szaszkó-Bogár , F. M. Peeters , Péter Földi

We consider the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate, $1/T_1T$ in superconductors with accidental nodes. We show that a Hebel-Slichter-like peak occurs even in the absence of an isotropic component of the superconducting gap. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-17 D. C. Cavanagh , B. J. Powell

I study electron movement in electromagnetic fields beyond the adiabatic approximation, using so-called Stormer theory. Some of the electron orbits are regular or integrable, but their measure is zero. Other orbits, called quasiperiodic,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Dirk Dubbers

We study the full counting statistics of electronic transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads, with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. The interplay of Coulomb interaction and finite spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Stephan Lindebaum , Daniel Urban , Jürgen König

We develop a self-consistent theory describing the spin and spatial electron diffusion in the impurity band of doped semiconductors under the effect of a weak spin-orbit coupling. The resulting low-temperature spin-relaxation time and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-02 Thomas Wellens , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

The large-time asymptotics of the density matrix solving a drift-diffusion-Poisson model for the spin-polarized electron transport in semiconductors is proved. The equations are analyzed in a bounded domain with initial and Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Philipp Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel

The Eilenberger equation is a standard tool in the description of superconductors with an arbitrary degree of disorder. It can be generalized to systems with linear-in-momentum spin-orbit coupling (SOC), by exploiting the analogy of SOC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Stefan Ilić , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We examine the high-frequency differential conductivity response properties of semiconductor superlattices having various miniband dispersion laws. Our analysis shows that the anharmonicity of Bloch oscillations (beyond tight-binding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuriy A. Romanov , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing

The rapidly expanding research in Spintronics, the electronics utilizing the electron spin instead of its charge, is driven by the very interesting potential applications. The actual task is to develop principles for the spin manipulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Scherbakov , A. V. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , W. Ossau , L. Hansen , A. Waag , L. W. Molenkamp

A theory of spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors is developed and applied to magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions. Several phenomena with possible spintronic applications are predicted, including spinvoltaic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Recently, polarons in the Peyrard-Bishop-Holstein model under DC electric fields were established to perform Bloch oscillations, provided the charge-lattice coupling is not large. In this work, we study this model when the charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Herrero-Gómez , E. Díaz , F. Domínguez-Adame

We study the electronic transport through a noncollinear single-electron spin-valve transistor. It consists of a small metallic island weakly coupled to two ferromagnetic leads with noncollinear magnetization directions. The electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Stephan Lindebaum , Jürgen König

The relativistic semiclassical evolution of the position of an electron in the presence of an external electromagnetic field is studied in terms of a Newton equation that incorporates spin effects directly. This equation emerges from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 R. Gutierrez-Jauregui , R. Perez-Pascual , R. Jauregui

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

We address the increase of electron drift velocity that arises in semiconductor superlattices (SLs) subjected to constant electric and magnetic fields. It occurs if the magnetic field possesses nonzero components both along and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-14 Stanislav M. Soskin , Igor A. Khovanov , Peter V. E. McClintock

We derive a nonlinear equation governing dynamics of short-wavelength longitudinal waves in ultrarelativistic electron-positron-ion plasmas. In contrast to the recent work by Lashkin [Phys. Plasmas {\textbf{27}}, 102302 (2020)], where a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 V. M. Lashkin

Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (NLS) of the Hartree type occur in the modeling of quantum semiconductor devices. Their "semiclassical" limit of vanishing (scaled) Planck constant is both a mathematical challenge and practically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Norbert Mauser , Hans Peter Stimming

Resonant behavior involving spin-orbit entangled states occurs for spin transport along a narrow channel defined in a two-dimensional electron gas, including an apparent rapid relaxation of the spin polarization for special values of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 D. H. Berman , M. Khodas , M. E. Flatté