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A scheme of spin diode is proposed that uses a step-like quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, connected to two leads with different width. It is shown that a very large vertical spin-polarized current can be generated when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

The spin dynamics of localized donor-bound electrons interacting with the nuclear spin ensemble in $n$-doped GaAs epilayers is studied using nuclear spin polarization by light with modulated circular polarization. We show that the observed…

The dc voltage observed at low-temperatures in a 2D electron sample $without$ external excitation is accounted by the Schottky contact rectification of the noise generated in the measuring circuit. The rectified voltage is shown to depend…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 M. V. Cheremisin

For a double quantum dot system in a parallel geometry, we demonstrate that by combining the effects of a flux and driving an electrical current through the structure, the spin correlations between electrons localized in the dots can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 C. A. Büsser , F. Heidrich-Meisner

We experimentally isolate, characterize and coherently control up to six individual nuclear spins that are weakly coupled to an electron spin in diamond. Our method employs multi-pulse sequences on the electron spin that resonantly amplify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. H. Taminiau , J. J. T. Wagenaar , T. van der Sar , F. Jelezko , V. V. Dobrovitski , R. Hanson

We report a new transport feature in a GaAs lateral double quantum dot that emerges only for magnetic field sweeps and shows hysteresis due to dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP). This DNP signal appears in the Coulomb blockade regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takashi Kobayashi , Kenichi Hitachi , Satoshi Sasaki , Koji Muraki

We demonstrate experimentally that a polarized nuclear spin modifies the dynamic behavior of a neighboring electronic spin. Specifically, an out-of-phase component appears in the electronic spin-echo signal. This component is proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Paz London , Ran Fischer , Ignacio Alvizu , Jeronimo R. Maze , David Gershoni

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Nuclear electric resonance (NER) is based on nuclear magnetic resonance mediated by spatial oscillations of electron spin domains excited by a radio frequency (RF) electric field, and it allows us to investigate the spatial distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 S. Watanabe , G. Igarashi , N. Kumada , Y. Hirayama

A new method for investigating the dynamics of atomic magnetic moments in current-carrying magnetic point contacts under bias is presented. This combines the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for evaluating the current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito , Tchavdar N. Todorov

The optically induced polarization of localized electron spins in an ensemble of quantum dots (QDs) dephases due to the interaction with the surrounding nuclear spins. Despite this dephasing, the spins in the QDs can be controlled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 P. Schering , G. S. Uhrig

A magnonic spin current crossing a ferromagnet-metal interface is accompanied by spin current shot noise arising from the discrete quanta of spin carried by magnons. In thin films, e.g., the spin of so-called squeezed magnons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Luise Siegl , Michaela Lammel , Akashdeep Kamra , Hans Huebl , Wolfgang Belzig , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

For the two-dimensional electron gas, the exact high-density limit of the correlation energy is evaluated here numerically for all values of the spin polarization. The result is spin-resolved into $\uparrow\uparrow$, $\uparrow\downarrow$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Seidl

We consider the problem of spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field. We assume that the spin relaxation is induced by the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction, which appears due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

Based on spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations, which are derived from kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix in a rigorous manner, the electric-field-induced nonequilibrium spin polarization is treated for a two-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

The formation of a novel spin-polarized 2D electron gas at the LaMnO$_3$ monolayer embedded in SrMnO$_3$ is predicted from the first-principles density-functional calculations. The La (d) electrons become confined in the direction normal to…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-10 B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy

To determine the state of spin polarization of the 3D electron gas at very low densities and zero temperature, we calculate the energy versus spin polarization using Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo methods with backflow wavefunctions and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 F. H. Zong , C. Lin , D. M. Ceperley

Experimental studies of spin transport in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted by a triple GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are reported. Using time-resolved Kerr rotation, we observed the precession of the spin polarization about a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Ullah , G. J. Ferreira , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

Over the regime of the radiation-induced zero-resistance states and associated oscillatory magnetoresistance, we propose a low magnetic field analog of quantum-Hall-limit techniques for the electrical detection of electron spin- and nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Mani

We study experimentally the dependence of dynamic nuclear spin polarization on the power of non-resonant optical excitation in two types of individual neutral semiconductor quantum dots: InGaAs/GaAs and GaAs/AlGaAs. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 J. Puebla , E. A. Chekhovich , M. Hopkinson , P. Senellart , A. Lemaitre , M. S. Skolnick , A. I. Tartakovskii