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A unified theoretical description of ballistic and diffusive carrier transport in parallel-plane semiconductor structures is developed within the semiclassical model. The approach is based on the introduction of a thermo-ballistic current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We develop a semiclassical kinetic theory for electron spin relaxation in semiconductors. Our approach accounts for elastic as well as inelastic scattering and treats Elliott-Yafet and motional-narrowing processes, such as D'yakonov-Perel'…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz X. Bronold , Avadh Saxena , Darryl L. Smith

We report on nonlocal transport in multiterminal superconductor-ferromagnet structures, which were fabricated by means of e-beam lithography and shadow evaporation techniques. In the presence of a significant Zeeman splitting of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-15 F. Hübler , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , H. V. Löhneysen

Motivated by a need to understand spin-momentum transport in CPP (current perpendicular to the plane) structures, a quantum field theoretical treatment of spin-spin interactions in ferromagnets is presented. The sd interaction of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 W. N. G. Hitchon , G. J. Parker , A. Rebei

We present a theory of carrier-induced ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors (III_{1-x} Mn_x V) which allows for arbitrary itinerant-carrier spin polarization and dynamic correlations. Both ingredients are essential in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jürgen König , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Allan H. MacDonald

We present a quantum transport theory for generic magnetic metals, in which magnetism occurs predominantly due to exchange interactions, such as ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, altermagnets and p-wave magnets. Our theory is valid both for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-11 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Ballistic spin polarized transport through diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) single and double barrier structures is investigated theoretically using a two-component model. The tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of the system exhibits…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Kai Chang , J. B. Xia , F. M. Peeters

The transport property of a lateral two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor electron gas under a spatially periodic magnetic field is investigated theoretically. We find that the electron Fermi velocity along the modulation direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng

In the spin energy excitation mode of normal metals and superconductors, spin up and down electrons (or quasiparticles) carry different heat currents. This mode occurs only when spin up and down energy distribution functions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 M. Kuzmanović , B. Y. Wu , M. Weideneder , C. H. L. Quay , M. Aprili

Spin and charge-current dynamics after ultrafast spin-polarized excitation in a normal metal are studied theoretically using a wave-diffusion theory. It is shown analytically how this macroscopic approach correctly describes the ballistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-22 Steffen Kaltenborn , Yao-Hui Zhu , Hans Christian Schneider

The spin polarized charge transport is systematically analyzed as a thermally driven stochastic process. The approach is based on Kramers' equation describing the semiclassical motion under the inclusion of stochastic and damping forces.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

Spin propagation in systems of one-dimensional interacting fermions at finite temperature is intrinsically diffusive. The spreading rate of a spin packet is controlled by a transport coefficient termed "spin drag" relaxation time $\tau_{\rm…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-16 Diego Rainis , Marco Polini , M. P. Tosi , G. Vignale

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

We study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The spin dynamics is controlled by the spin-orbit interaction, which arises via the Dresselhaus (bulk asymmetry) and Rashba (well asymmetry)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Semion Saikin , Min Shen , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We use the Boltzmann transport theory in the relaxation time approximation to describe the thermal transport of spin waves in a ferromagnet. By treating spin waves as magnon excitations we are able to compute analytically and numerically…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-05 Vittorio Basso , Elena Ferraro , Marco Piazzi

The spin transport equations for polarized deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion plasma are derived with the density matrix formulation, which are used to investigate the hydrodynamics of polarized DT-gas-filled targets during indirectly driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Ronghao Hu , Hao Zhou , Zhihao Tao , Zhihao Zhang , Meng Lv , Shiyang Zou , Yongkun Ding

We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Thomas Stibius Jensen , Niels Asger Mortensen

We study the generation of non-equilibrium spin currents in systems with spatially-inhomogeneous magnetic potentials. For sufficiently high current densities, the spin polarization can be transported over distances significantly exceeding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivar Martin

A scanning tunneling microscope can probe the inelastic spin excitations of a single magnetic atom in a surface via spin-flip assisted tunneling in which transport electrons exchange spin and energy with the atomic spin. If the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier