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We study spin relaxation and diffusion in an electron-spin ensemble of nitrogen impurities in diamond at low temperature (0.25-1.2 K) and polarizing magnetic field (80-300 mT). Measurements exploit mode- and temperature-dependent coupling…

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We simulated spin polarized transport of electrons along III-V nanowires and two dimensional III-V channels using semi classical Monte Carlo method. Properties of spin relaxation length have been investigated in different III-V zinc-blende…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Swetali Nimje , Ashutosh Sharma , Bahniman Ghosh

In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Rodrigo Turcati , Carlos Andres Bonilla Quintero , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Enrique Arias

The interplay between spin and charge in solids is currently among the most discussed topics in condensed matter physics. Such interplay gives rise to magneto-electric coupling, which in the case of solids was named magneto-electric effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Teik-Hui Lee , Chii-Dong Chen

We present theoretical predictions of spintronic transport phenomena that should be observable in ferromagnetic Fe nanocontacts bridged by chains of Fe atoms. We develop appropriate model Hamiltonians based on semi-empirical considerations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Hugh Dalgleish , George Kirczenow

The spin current model of electric polarization of multiferroics is justified via the quantum hydrodynamic method and the mean-field part of the spin-orbit interaction. The spin current model is applied to derive the electric polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-10 Pavel A. Andreev , Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

We consider dc-electronic transport through a nanowire suspended between normal- and spin-polarized metal leads in the presence of an external magnetic field. We show that magnetomotive coupling between the electrical current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Danko Radić , Anders Nordenfelt , Anatoli M. Kadigrobov , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

In this paper a detailed numerical study (in frames of the Slonczewski formalism) of magnetization oscillations driven by a spin-polarized current through a thin elliptical nanoelement is presented. We show that a sophisticated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Berkov , N. L. Gorn

We investigate nonequilibrium phenomena in magnetic nano-junctions using a numerical approach that combines classical spin dynamics with the hierarchical equations of motion technique for quantum dynamics of conduction electrons. Our focus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rudolf Smorka , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

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

We study the formation of spontaneous spin polarization in inhomogeneous electron systems with pair interaction localized in a small region that is not separated by a barrier from surrounding gas of non-interacting electrons. Such a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Bagun S. Shchamkhalova

We present a theory of the elementary spin excitations in transition metal ferromagnet nanoparticles which achieves a unified and consistent quantum description of both collective and quasiparticle physics. The theory starts by recognizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Cehovin , C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald

A theory of electron spin relaxation in semiconducting carbon nanotubes is developed based on the hyperfine interaction with disordered nuclei spins I=1/2 of $^{13}$C isotopes. It is shown that strong radial confinement of electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , G. J. Iafrate

The energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron systems is studied in the diffusive regime. We derived the quantum kinetic equation in which the kernel of electron-electron collision integral explicitly depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-05 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , I. S. Burmistrov

We investigate theoretically the prospects for using a magnetic nanoelectromechanical single-electron tunneling (NEM-SET) device as an electronic spin filter. We find that strong magnetic exchange forces on the net spin of the mobile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Robert I. Shekhter , Artem Pulkin , Mats Jonson

We have studied the current through a carbon nanotube quantum dot with one ferromagnetic and one normal-metal lead. For the values of gate voltage at which the normal lead is resonant with the single available non-degenerate energy level on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

We study electron transport in nanojunctions in which an electron on a quantum dot or a molecule is interacting with an N-state local impurity, a harmonic ("Holstein") mode, or a two-state system ("spin"). These two models, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Lena Simine , Dvira Segal

We study the spin-dependent electronic excitations in alkali-metal nanoparticles. Using numerical and analytical approaches, we focus on the resonances in the response to spin-dependent dipole fields. In the spin-dipole absorption spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-18 Yue Yin , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Giovanni Manfredi , Emmanuel Maurat , Dietmar Weinmann

The spin degree of freedom can play an essential role in determining the electrical transport properties of spin-polarized electron systems in metals or semiconductors. In this article, I address the dependence of spin-subsystem chemical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 A. H. MacDonald