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We coherently manipulate spin correlations in a two-component atomic Fermi gas loaded into an optical lattice using spatially and time-resolved Ramsey spectroscopy combined with high-resolution \textit{in situ} imaging. This novel technique…
A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…
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We present an implementation of the ballistic Landauer-B\"uttiker transport scheme in one-dimensional systems based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations within the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave (FLAPW) method. In…
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