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The distribution is calculated of the electron spin polarization under current-driven spin injection from a probe to a ferromagnetic film. It is shown that the main parameters determining difference of the spin polarization from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-15 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , A. I. Panas , V. G. Shofman , P. E. Zilberman

We investigate the coupling of the spin angular momentum of light beams with elliptical polarization to the spin degree of freedom of free electrons. It is shown that this coupling, which is of similar origin as the well-known spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Rainer Grobe

Electron transport through a three-electrode triple-quantum-dot ring with the source electrode of spin-dependent splitting of chemical potentials (spin bias) is theoretically investigated. We find clear charge and spin currents in the drain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Weijiang Gong , Xuefeng Xie , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

We theoretically predict that a pure steady state spin-current without charge-current can induce an electric field. A formula for the induced electric field is derived and we investigate its characteristics. Conversely, a moving spin is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Jian Wang

Formal connections between the spin density matrix and the Wigner function for spin-1/2 particles forming a relativistic gas are explored to determine their general structures. They suggest that the commonly used form of the local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Samapan Bhadury , Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

To establish a correlation between the spin diffusion, the spin lifetime, and the electron density, we study, employing time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, the spin polarization evolution in low-dimensional GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 S. Anghel , A. V. Poshakinskiy , K. Schiller , G. Yusa , T. Mano , T. Noda , M. Betz

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

In Maxwellian electrodynamics, specific properties of the responses to external fields are included in constitutive equations. For noncentrosymmetric semiconductors, spin conductivity can be expressed in terms of the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel I. Rashba

The orientation of the local electron spin quantization axis in momentum space is identified as the most significant physical variable in determining the states of a two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. Simion , G. F. Giuliani

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

We investigate some foundational issues in the quantum theory of spin transport, in the general case when the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator $H_0$ does not commute with the spin operator in view of Rashba interactions, as in the typical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Giovanna Marcelli , Gianluca Panati , Stefan Teufel

Quantum hydrodynamic (QHD) model of charged spin-1/2 particles contains physical quantities defined for all particles of a species including particles with spin-up and with spin-down. Different population of states with different spin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Pavel A. Andreev

We define the separability and entanglement notion for particle with spin $s=1$. We consider two cases. In the first the particle is composed of two fermions with $s_1=1/2$ and $s_2=1/2$. In the second case the state is the qutrit state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 V. I. Man'ko , L. A. Markovich

We consider spin-vorticity coupling - the generation of spin polarization by vorticity - in viscous two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling. We first derive hydrodynamic equations for spin and momentum densities in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Ruben J. Doornenbal , Marco Polini , R. A. Duine

Schr\"odinger equation for an electron confined to a two-dimensional strip is considered in the presence of homogeneous orthogonal magnetic field. Since the system has edges, the eigenvalue problem is supplied by the boundary conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Merab Eliashvili , George Tsitsishvili

Using classical description of spin degrees of freedom, we extend recent formulation of the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics for spin-polarized fluids to the case including dissipation. Our work is based on the analysis of classical kinetic…

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

We have theoretically studied the temporal fluctuations and the resulting kinetic noise in the average spin polarization of an electron ensemble drifting in a quantum wire under a high electric field. Electrons are initially injected in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pramanik , S. Bandyopadhyay

A general spin symmetry argument is proposed for spin currents in semiconductors. In particular, due to the symmetry with respect to spin polarization of the helicity eigenstates of the Luttinger Hamiltonian for a hole-doped semiconductor,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xindong Wang , X. -G. Zhang

The non-equilibrium transportation of two-dimensional electrons through a narrow channel is investigated under the influence of the Rashba interaction. By introducing suitable lifetime in the Green's function, the average spin values can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Yi-Ying Chin , Jui-Yu Chiu , Ming-Che Chang , Chung-Yu Mou