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We describe a nonlinear interaction between charge currents and spin currents which arises from the energy dependence of the conductivity. This allows nonmagnetic contacts to be used for measuring and controlling spin signals. We choose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees

We investigate the unusual features of the quantum transport in gapped monolayer graphene, which is in a pseudospin symmetry-broken state with a net perpendicular pseudomagnetization. Using these pseudoferromagnets (PFs), we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Manifestation of orbital coupling of spin degree of freedom in condensed matter systems has opened up a new dimension for the field of spintronics. The most appealing aspect of the spin-orbit coupling is the apparent Magnus force sensed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Tapas Senapati , Ashwin Kumar , Kartik Senapati

We study theoretically and numerically the conditions required for the appearance of a superradiance transition in graphene. The electron properties of graphene are described in the single $p_z$-orbital tight-binding approximation, in which…

Graphene is a promising candidate for applications in spintronics. In this paper, Density Functional Theory method is used to calculate the band structure and magnetic properties of graphene on Ni(111). Our results show that once there is…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-21 Chenhao Jin , Zhen Bi , Zonghai Hu , Ji Feng , Enge Wang

We perform a comparative study of the spin relaxation by spin-orbit coupling induced from adatoms (hydrogen and fluorine) in graphene. Two methods are applied, giving consistent results: a full quantum transport simulation of a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jan Bundesmann , Denis Kochan , Fedor Tkatschenko , Jaroslav Fabian , Klaus Richter

We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by performing ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Zhenhua Qiao , Wei Ren , Hua Chen , L. Bellaiche , Zhenyu Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We predict the coexistence of tunneling spin and valley Hall effects when electrons in graphene coherently transmit through a barrier with the broken inversion symmetry and proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling. Due to the rotation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 W. Zeng

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are described by formally identical expressions. We explore implications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Ming-Hao Liu , Jan Bundesmann , Klaus Richter

We investigate the spin-resolved transport in a two-terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon device with two independent gate induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling regions and in the presence of strain. By employing a recursive Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek , F. M. Souza

The gyromagnetic factor is an important physical quantity relating the magnetic-dipole moment of a particle to its spin. The electron spin g-factor in vacuo is one of the best model-based theoretical predictions ever made, showing agreement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 N. Menezes , Van Sergio Alves , E. C. Marino , L. Nascimento , Leandro O. Nascimento , C. Morais Smith

The two-dimensional nature of graphene Josephson junctions offers the possibility of creating effective superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions with tunable Zeeman splitting caused by an in-plane magnetic field. Such junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Morten Amundsen , Ayelet Zalic , Tom Dvir , Hadar Steinberg , Jacob Linder

A cooled scanning probe microscope (SPM) has been used to image cyclotron orbits of electrons through high-mobility graphene in a magnetic field.1-5 In a hBN-graphene-hBN device patterned into a hall bar geometry, the magnetic field focuses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Sagar Bhandari , Andrew Lin , Robert M. Westervelt

We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

We provide a systematic quantitative description of spin polarization in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons in a perpendicular magnetic field. We first address spinless electrons within the Hartree approximation studying the evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

We measure the dependence of the conductivity of graphene as a function of magnetic field, temperature and carrier density and discover a saturation of the dephasing length at low temperatures that we ascribe to spin memory effects. Values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. A. Kozikov , D. W. Horsell , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

In two-dimensional system, Rashba spin-orbit coupling can lift spin degeneracy and gives the opposite spin chirality of two split Fermi circles from two Rashba bands. Here, we propose a generic model which can produce unconventional Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Xinliang Huang , Yuhang Xiao , Rui Song , Ning Hao

We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald