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A theoretical prediction of the spin-dependent electron self-energy and in-plane transport of a two-dimensional electron gas in proximity with a ferromagnetic gate is presented. The application of the predicted spin-dependent properties is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Ciuti , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham

By theoretically calculating the interacting spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of finite spin polarization, we show that the extensively employed technique of measuring the 2D spin susceptibility by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ying Zhang , S. Das Sarma

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

A curved two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions due to the radial confinement asymmetry is considered. At certain relation between the spin-orbit coupling strength and curvature radius the tangential component of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

It has been shown that tunneling of spin-polarized electrons through a semiconductor barrier is accompanied by generation of an electric current in the plane of the interfaces. The direction of this interface current is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Tarasenko , V. I. Perel' , I. N. Yassievich

The dynamics of single laser-driven electrons and many particle systems with spin are investigated on the basis of a classical theory. We demonstrate that the spin forces can alter the electron dynamics in an ultra-relativistic laser field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Meng Wen , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

The electron mediated exchange interaction between local spins adsorbed on two-dimensional surface is studied under non-equilibrium conditions. The effective spin-spin interaction is found to depend both on the spin-polarization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-29 J. Fransson

Spin is an intrinsically quantum property, characterized by angular momentum. A change in the spin state is equivalent to a change in the angular momentum or mechanical torque. This spin-induced torque has been invoked as the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Guiti Zolfagharkhani , Alexei Gaidarzhy , Pascal Degiovanni , Stefan Kettemann , Peter Fulde , Pritiraj Mohanty

A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We investigate the spin-dependent dynamical response of a quantum ring with a spin-orbit interaction upon the application of linearly polarized, picosecond, asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The oscillations of the generated dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

The spin-orbit coupling may generate spin transverse force on moving electron spin, which gives a heuristic picture for the quantum transverse transport of electron. A relation between the spin and anomalous Hall conductance and spin force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bin Zhou , Li Ren , Shun-Qing Shen

In a thin strip of a two-dimensional semiconductor electronic system, spin-orbit coupling may be induced near both edges of the strip due to the substantial spatial variation of the confining potential in the boundary regions. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

We offer a possible physical explanation for the origin of the electron spin and the related antisymmetry of the wave function for a two-electron system, in the framework of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as provided by linear stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Ana María Cetto , Luis de la Peña , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

We consider spin-dependent tunneling through a gallium arsenide barrier, a material which has no inversion symmetry. We are dealing with free electrons, with one effective mass and a spin-splitting in the barrier material. When we take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 T. L. Hoai Nguyen , Henri-Jean Drouhin , Jean-Eric Wegrowe , Guy Fishman

We demonstrated that dipole-exchange spin waves traveling in geometrically restricted magnetic thin films satisfy the same laws of reflection and refraction as light waves. Moreover, we found for the first time novel wave behaviors of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-03 Sangkook Choi , Sang-Koog Kim

We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-15 Brandon Anderson , Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

Optical absorption of circularly polarized light is well known to yield an electron spin polarization in direct band gap semiconductors. We demonstrate that electron spins can even be generated with high efficiency by absorption of linearly…