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Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

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In a recent Letter Hammar et al. claim the observation of injection of a spin-polarized current in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This is an important observation, since, despite considerable effort of several groups, all attempts…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. J. van Wees

We observe and analyze tunable relaxation of a pure spin current by an antiferromagnet in spin-valves. This is achieved by carefully controlling the angle between a resonantly excited ferromagnetic layer pumping the spin current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Akashdeep Kamra , Taras I. Polek , Arne Brataas , Vladislav Korenivski

A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 So Takei , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Transport measurements on few layer graphene (FLG) are important as they interpolate between the properties of single layer graphene (SLG) as a true 2-dimensional material and the 3-dimensional bulk properties of graphite. In this article…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 T. Maassen , F. K. Dejene , M. H. D. Guimarães , C. Józsa , B. J. van Wees

We develop a non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to study magnonic spin transport through a strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic insulator contacted by metallic leads. We model the ferromagnetic insulator as a finite-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 W. P. Sterk , Andreas Rückriegel , H. Y. Yuan , Babak Zare Rameshti , R. A. Duine

The majority of recent works devoted to spin nematic phases deal with either frustrated magnets or with those described by Hamiltonians with large non-Heisenberg terms. We show in the present study that nonfrustrated antiferromagnets (AFs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-22 Alexey Sizanov , Arseny Syromyatnikov

The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

To conduct spin-sensitive transport measurements, a non-local device geometry is often used to avoid spurious voltages that are caused by the flow of charges. However, in the vast majority of reported non-local spin valve, Hanle spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 F. Volmer , T. Bisswanger , A. Schmidt , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten

The current generation of spintronic devices, which use electron-spin relies on linear operations for spin-injection, transport and detection processes. The existence of nonlinearity in a spintronic device is indispensable for spin-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Omar , M. Gurram , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. H. D. Guimarães , B. J. van Wees

The recently suggested mechanism [Y. Song and H. Dery, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047205 (2014)] of the three-terminal spin transport is based on the resonant tunneling of electrons between ferromagnetic and normal electrodes via an impurity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Z. Yue , M. E. Raikh

In the present work we propose that a one-dimensional quantum heterostructure composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be utilized as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. A simple tight-binding framework is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti

A novel scheme for spin filters is proposed by studying the coherent transport of electrons through the quantum wires with lateral magnetic modulations. Unlike other schemes in the literature, the modulation in our scheme is much weaker…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi , M. W. Wu

Metallic thin film ferromagnets generically possess spiral states that carry dissipationless spin currents. We relate the critical values of these supercurrents to micromagnetic material parameters, identify the circumstances under which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jürgen König , Martin Chr. Bønsager , Allan H. MacDonald

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

We theoretically investigate quantum spin transfer from spin-correlated conduction-electron pairs to localized spins in a ferromagnet, given that electrons are correlated intrinsically. We show that even spin-singlet pairs and triplet pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Seongmun Hwang , Jung Hyun Oh , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles , Kyung-Jin Lee

We theoretically study a finite size $SF_1NF_2$ spin valve, where a normal metal ($N$) insert separates a thin standard ferromagnet ($F_1$) and a thick half-metallic ferromagnet ($F_2$). For sufficiently thin superconductor ($S$) widths…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-12 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust

We present a comprehensive theoretical and experimental study of voltage-controlled standing spin waves resonance (SSWR) in PMN-PT/NiFe multiferroic heterostructures patterned into microstrips. A spin-diode technique was used to observe…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Slawomir Zietek , Jakub Checinski , Marek Frankowski , Witold Skowronski , Tomasz Stobiecki

We study electron transport through single-electron spin-valve transistors in the presence of non-local exchange between the ferromagnetic leads and the central normal-metal island. The Coulomb interaction is described with the orthodox…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wouter Wetzels , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Milena Grifoni

A systematic investigation of spin transport properties in silicon at 8 K by using a non-local geometry is presented. The spin injection signal in the non-local scheme is found to increase in proportion to the evolution of bias electric…