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We study the spin polarization of tunneling holes injected from ferromagnetic GaMnAs into a p-doped semiconductor through a tunneling barrier. We obtain an upper limit to the spin injection rate. We find that spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Brey , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor

We propose a simple scheme for the spin filter by studying the coherent transport of electrons through a double-bend structure in a quantum wire with a weak lateral magnetic potential which is much weaker than the Fermi energy of the leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. W. Shi , J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

Electronic transport through a single-molecule magnet Mn$_{12}$ in a two-terminal set up is calculated using the non-equilibrium Green's function method in conjunction with density-functional theory. A single-molecule magnet Mn$_{12}$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-28 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Kyungwha Park , Víctor García-Suárez , Jaime Ferrer

Recently it has been shown that ac-driven double quantum dots can act as spin pumps and spin filters. By calculating the current through the system for each spin polarization, by means of the time evolution of the reduced density matrix in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Sánchez , Ernesto Cota , Ramón Aguado , Gloria Platero

We report on the spin-polarized electron injection through an Fe(100)/InAs(100) junction. The circularly polarized electroluminescence of injected electrons from epitaxially grown Fe thin film into InAs(100) in an external magnetic field is…

We propose a spin filter scheme using a $T$-stub waveguide. By applying a moderate magnetic field at the tip of the sidearm, this device can produce both large electric and spin current. The direction, polarization of the output spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Y. Feng , J. H. Jiang , M. Q. Weng

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

Altermagnetism has been widely explored in 3D and 2D crystals, but its one-dimensional realization remains largely unexplored. Here we propose an altermagnetic nanotube formed by rolling a 2D altermagnet, which converts momentum-odd spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xin Chen , Zhen Han , Linyang Li , Mingwen Zhao

A method for measuring the degree of spin polarization of magnetic materials based on spin-dependent resonant tunneling is proposed. The device we consider is a ballistic double-barrier resonant structure consisting of a ferromagnetic layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 Francesco Giazotto , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Beltram

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

The spin transport characteristics of a nanowire directional electronic coupler have been evaluated theoretically via a transfer matrix approach. The application of a gate field in the region of mixing allows for control of spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Rebello Sousa Dias , V. Lopez-Richard , G. E. Marques , S. E. Ulloa

Spin filter tunnel junctions are based on selective tunneling of up and down spin electrons controlled through exchange splitting of the band structure of a ferromagnetic insulator. Therefore, spin filter efficiency can be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 P. K. Muduli , X. L. Wang , J. H. Zhao , Mark G. Blamire

An electric current flowing in a ferromagnetic metal carries spin angular momentum, i.e. it is spin-polarized. Here, we measure the spin-wave Doppler shift induced by the transfer of angular momentum from the diffusive spin-polarized…

In systems with spin-momentum locking, such as the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators, a charge current is spin-polarized and spin-flip interactions between electron and nuclear spins can transfer this polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Sofie Kölling , İnanç Adagideli , Alexander Brinkman

We introduce a highly sensitive and relatively simple technique to observe magnetization motion in single Ni nanoparticles, based on charge sensing by electron tunneling at millikelvin temperature. Sequential electron tunneling via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 W. C. Jiang , G. Nunn , P. Gartland , D. Davidović

We have investigated the spin current polarization without the external magnetic field in the resonant tunneling diode with the emitter and quantum well layers made from the ferromagnetic GaMnN. For this purpose we have applied the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski , M. Wołoszyn , B. J. Spisak

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

We calculate the tunneling conductance \sigma between the surface states on the opposite sides of the ultra-thin film of a topological insulator in a parallel magnetic field B_y. The parallel magnetic produces a relative shift of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

The ballistic spin-filter effect from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor has theoretically been studied with an intention of detecting the spin polarizability of density of states in FM layer at a higher energy level. The physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Y. H. Li

The spin polarization P of the transport current through the interface between superconducting Al and ferromagnetic Fe is determined by means of Andreev reflection at nanostructured point contacts. We observe a systematic decrease of P with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stokmaier , G. Goll , D. Weissenberger , C. Sürgers , H. v. Löhneysen