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We apply polarization resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy to measure the spin polarization of a two dimensional electron gas in perpendicular magnetic field. In the vicinity of filling factor nu=5/2, we observe a sharp discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Stern , P. Plochocka , V. Umansky , D. K. Maude , M. Potemski , I. Bar-Joseph

Femtosecond laser excitations in half-metal (HM) compounds are theoretically predicted to induce an exotic picosecond spin dynamics. In particular, conversely to what is observed in conventional metals and semiconductors, the thermalization…

Spinorial or multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates may sustain fractional quanta of circulation, vorticant topological excitations with half integer windings of phase and polarization. Matter-light quantum fluids, such as microcavity…

Due to its broken spin and orbit rotation symmetries, superfluid $^3$He plays a unique role for testing rotational quantum properties on a macroscopic scale. In this system the orbital momentum forms textures that provide an effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Chen , Yu. M. Bunkov , H. Godfrin , R. Schanen , F. Scheffler

Electron spin dephasing in a singly charged semiconductor quantum dot can partially be suppressed by periodic laser pulsing. We propose a semi-classical approach describing the decoherence of the electron spin polarization governed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Natalie Jäschke , Andreas Fischer , E. Evers , V. V. Belykh , Alex Greilich , Manfred Bayer , Frithjof B. Anders

We report the observation of an anomalous conductance plateau near G = 0.5 G0 (G0 = 2e2/h) in asymmetrically biased AlGaAs/GaAs quantum point contacts (QPCs), with in-plane side gates in the presence of lateral spin-orbit coupling. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 N. Bhandari , P. P. Das , M. Cahay , R. S. Newrock , S. T. Herbert

We report here numerical results of the low-temperature behavior of a dipolar spin ice in a magnetic field along the [100] direction. Tuning the magnetic field, the system exhibit a half-magnetization plateau at low temperature. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Sheng-Ching Lin , Ying-Jer Kao

In this paper we propose the quantized spin Hall effect (SHE) in the vortex state of a rotating p-wave paired Fermi system in an inhomogeneous magnetic field and in a weak periodic potential. It is the three dimensional extension of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Jun Goryo , Mahito Kohmoto , Yong-Shi Wu

We report the observation of vorticity in a macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons in a ring geometry. Because it is a spinor condensate, the elementary excitations are "half vortices" in which there is a phase rotation of $\pi$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 Gangqiang Liu , David W. Snoke , Andrew Daley , Loren Pfeiffer , Kenneth West

Spin-triplet superfluids can support exotic objects, such as half-quantum vortices characterized by the nontrivial winding of the spin structure. We present cantilever magnetometry measurements performed on mesoscopic samples of Sr2RuO4, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-20 J. Jang , D. G. Ferguson , V. Vakaryuk , R. Budakian , S. B. Chung , P. M. Goldbart , Y. Maeno

We introduce and solve a semi-classical random walk (RW) model that describes the dynamics of spin polarization waves in zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells. We derive the dispersion relations for these waves, including the Rashba,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Luyi Yang , J. Orenstein , Dung-Hai Lee

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

Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ has recently emerged as a ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metal. Theoretical investigation of the spin-split bands predicted half metalicity in the compound. Here, we report the detection of a spin polarized supercurrent through a…

In this paper, we investigate the spin and tunneling dynamics of a spin-orbit-coupled noninteracting Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodically driven non-Hermitian double-well potential. Under high-frequency driving, we obtain the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-04 Jia Tang , Zhou Hu , Zhao-Yun Zeng , Jinpeng Xiao , Lei Li , Yajiang Chen , Ai-Xi Chen , Xiaobing Luo

The conditions for a spontaneous spin polarization in a quantum wire positioned in a zero magnetic field are analyzed under weak population of one-dimensional subbands that gives rise to the efficient quenching of the kinetic energy by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. T. Bagraev , V. K. Ivanov , L. E. Klyachkin , I. A. Shelykh

The possible existence of short-range forces between unpolarized and polarized spin-1/2 particles has attracted the attention of physicists for decades. These forces are predicted in various theories and provide a possible new source for…

We demonstrate that the confinement of half-quantized vortices (HQVs) in coherently coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) simulates certain aspects of the confinement in $SU(2)$ quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in 2+1 space-time dimensions.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Minoru Eto , Muneto Nitta

We present a detailed theoretical study of the electronic spectrum and Zeeman splitting in hole quantum wires. The spin-3/2 character of the topmost bulk-valence-band states results in a strong variation of subband-edge g factors between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 D. Csontos , P. Brusheim , U. Zuelicke , H. Q. Xu

We undertake a theoretical study of edge spin-vortex excitations in fractional quantum Hall fluid. This is done in view of quantised Euler hydrodynamics theory. The dispersions of true excitations for fractions within $0\leq \nu \leq 1$ are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , I. Y. Seini , S. S Abukari

We consider the stability conditions for half-quantum vortices in quasi two dimensional $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor (such as ${\rm Sr_2 RuO_4}$ is believed to be) through energetics calculations. Although the predicted exotic nature of these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-10 Suk Bum Chung , Hendrik Bluhm , Eun-Ah Kim