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We have measured the tunnelling current in Nb/Nb$_x$O$_y$/Ni planar tunnel junctions at different temperatures. The junctions are in the intermediate transparency regime. We have extracted the current polarization of the metal/ferromagnet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. González , A. D. Folgueras , R. Escudero , J. Ferrer , F. Guinea , J. L. Vicent

We report on experiments in which a spin-polarized current is injected from a $GaMnAs$ ferromagnetic electrode into a $GaAs$ quantum well through an AlAs barrier. The resulting spin polarization in the GaAs well is detected by measuring how…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mattana , J. -M. George , H. Jaffres , F. Nguyen Van Dau , A. Fert , B. Lepine , A. Guivarc'h , G. Jezequel

Nonequilibrium electron spin polarization is calculated under spin injection from one ferromagnet to another in magnetic junction. It is shown that the nonequilibrium spin polarization can be comparable with equilibrium one if the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman , A. I. Krikunov

We demonstrate a possibility to manipulate the magnetic coupling between two nanomagnets with a help of ac electric field. In the scheme suggested the magnetic coupling in question is mediated by a magnetic particle contacting with both of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , V. Vinokur , D. Feldman , V. Kozub , M. Jonson

For magnonics and spintronics applications, the spin polarization ($P$) of a transport current and the magnetic damping ($\alpha$) play a crucial role, e.g. for magnetization dynamics and magnetization switching applications. In particular,…

A new mechanism is proposed for the magnetization reversal of molecular nanomagnets such as \Fe8. In this process the spin tunnels from the lowest state near one easy direction to the first excited state near the opposite easy direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Anupam Garg

Spin-polarized tunneling in FMS/M/FMS double tunnel junctions where FMSs are ferromagnetic semiconductor layers and M is a metal spacer is studied theoretically within the single-site coherent potential approximation (CPA). The exchange…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We have studied spin carrier dynamics under full spin-orbit coupling. The anisotropy of dispersions for independent circular spinor polarizations is explored as a possible vertical multichannel voltage controlled spin-filter. Small voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Marques , A. C. R. Bittencourt , C. F. Destefani , Sergio E. Ulloa

We address the decoherence of a localized electron spin in an external magnetic field due to the hyperfine interaction with a lattice of nuclear spins. Using a completely non-perturbative method, rigorous bounds on the T_1 and T_2 coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil Shenvi , Rogerio de Sousa , K. Birgitta Whaley

Controlling spin current and magnetic exchange coupling by applying an electric field and achieving high spin injection efficiency at the same time in a nanostructure coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes have been the outstanding challenges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Kamal B Dhungana , Ranjit Pati

Spin noise sets fundamental limits to the precision of measurements using spin-polarized atomic vapors, such as performed with sensitive atomic magnetometers. Spin squeezing offers the possibility to extend the measurement precision beyond…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. K. Kominis

We present measurements of pure spin current absorption on lateral spin valves. By varying the width of the absorber we demonstrate that spin current absorption measurements enable to characterize efficiently the spin transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 G. Zahnd , Laurent Vila , V. Pham , M Cosset-Cheneau , W Lim , A Brenac , P Laczkowski , A Marty , J Attané

In this work, we study the conductance and the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot embedded between two metallic leads with a side-coupled triple quantum dot molecule under a magnetic field. We focus on the spin polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , F. J. Peña , A. González , O. Ávalos-Ovando , P. A. Orellana

Spin-selective spatial filtering of propagating polariton condensates, using a controllable spin-dependent gating barrier, in a one-dimensional semiconductor microcavity ridge waveguide is reported. A nonresonant laser beam provides the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 T. Gao , C. Antón , T. C. H. Liew , M. D. Martín , Z. Hatzopoulos , L. Viña , P. S. Eldridge , P. G. Savvidis

Spin transfer in asymmetric Co/Cu/Co bilayer magnetic nanopillars junctions has been studied at low temperature as a function of free-layer thickness. The phase diagram for current-induced magnetic excitations has been determined for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-14 W. Chen , A. D. Kent , M. J. Rooks , N. Ruiz , J. Z. Sun

A longitudinal electric field is used to control the transit time (through an undoped silicon vertical channel) of spin-polarized electrons precessing in a perpendicular magnetic field. Since an applied voltage determines the final spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

Nuclear spin hyperpolarization provides a promising route to overcome the challenges imposed by the limited sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. Here we demonstrate that dissolution of spin-polarized pentacene-doped naphthalene…

Measurements of magnetic hysteresis loops in single Co nanoparticles at dilution refrigerator temperatures are presented. The nanoparticles are in electric contact with bulk Al leads via tunnel junctions. The tunnel current versus magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 F. Tijiwa Birk , W. Jiang , D. Davidović

The effect of hyperfine interaction on the room-temperature defect-enabled spin filtering effect in GaNAs alloys is investigated both experimentally and theoretically through a master equation approach based on the hyperfine and Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Sandoval-Santana , A. Balocchi , T. Amand , J. C. Harmand , A. Kunold , X. Marie

A quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction can work as an efficient spin filter if it is connected to N (> 2) external leads via tunnel barriers. When an unpolarized current is injected to a quantum dot from a lead, polarized currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama