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We propose an experimental scheme to observe prethermalization and dynamical transition in one-dimensional XY spin chain with long range interaction and inhomogeneous lattice spacing, which can be readily implemented with the recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Zhe-Xuan Gong , L. -M. Duan

Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The density matrix description of the spin polarization is incorporated in the simulation algorithm. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We studied the diffusion and the relaxation of the polarized quasiparticle spins in superconductors. To that end, quasiparticles of polarized spins were injected through an interface of a mesoscopic superconducting Al wire in proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Yun-Sok Shin , Hu-Jong Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

We analyse the low-temperature behaviour of the Heisenberg model on a two-dimensional lattice of finite size. Presence of a residual magnetisation in a finite-size system enables us to use the spin wave approximation, which is known to give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Oleksandr Kapikranian , Bertrand Berche , Yurij Holovatch

The problem of spin-dependent transport of electrons through a finite array of quantum dots attached to 1D quantum wire (spin gun) for various semiconductor materials is studied. Unlike the model considered in [1] a model proposed here is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 L A Dmitrieva , D N Krupa , Yu A Kuperin

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a successful theory that establishes the criteria for ergodicity and thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems. In this work, we investigate the thermalization properties of…

The ground state energy of the two--dimensional uniform electron gas has been calculated with fixed--node diffusion Monte Carlo, including backflow correlations, for a wide range of electron densities as a function of spin polarization. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudio Attaccalite , Saverio Moroni , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni B. Bachelet

Several recent experiments on three-dimensional topological insulators claim to observe a large charge current-induced non-equilibrium ensemble spin polarization of electrons in the helical surface state. We present a comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Pengke Li , Ian Appelbaum

From general arguments, that are valid for spin models with sufficiently short-range interactions, we derive strong constraints on the excitation spectrum across a continuous phase transition at zero temperature between a magnetic and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonardo Spanu , Federico Becca , Sandro Sorella

Spin-orbit interaction couples electron spins to electric fields and allows electrical monitoring of electron spins and electrical detection of spin dynamics. Competing mechanisms of spin-orbit interaction are compared, and optimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Using micromagnetic simulations, we have investigated spin dynamics in a spin-valve bi-layer in the presence of a thermal gradient. The direction and the intensity of the gradient allow to excite the spin wave modes of each layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Simone Borlenghi , Weiwei Wang , Hans Fangohr , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin

he thermal entanglement is generated by weakly interacting atoms with an isotropic spin-1 chain. The decoherence of the entanglement is mainly investigated. The effective Hamiltonian is analytically obtained by the approximation method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Xiang Hao

We show that a quantum wire device with spin splitting can work as an active spin polarizer. Hot electrons in one `spin' subband (e.g. `spin-up') may pass such a device with weak electron pair scattering, while electrons in the opposite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

We study a spin system with both mixed even-spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) couplings and Curie-Weiss (CW) interaction. Our main results are: (i) The thermodynamic limit of the free energy is given by a variational formula involving the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Wei-Kuo Chen

Thermalization phenomena, while ubiquitous in quantum systems, have traditionally been viewed as obstacles to be mitigated. In this study, we demonstrate the ability, instead, to harness thermalization to dynamically engineer and stabilize…

We discuss a general form of the exchange energy for a homogeneous system of interacting electrons in two spatial dimensions which is particularly suited in the presence of a generic spin-orbit interaction. The theory is best formulated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the transport properties of short clean quantum wires adiabatically connected to reservoirs. Interactions lead to resonances in a multi-channel wire at particular values of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anders Mathias Lunde , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman

A domain wall (DW) which moves parallel to a magnetically compensated interface between an antiferromagnetic insulator (AFMI) and a two-dimensional (2D) metal can pump spin polarization into the metal. It is assumed that localized spins of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 A. G. Mal'shukov

We study the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the transport of spin polarized currents in metals and doped semiconductors in the diffusive regime. In addition to well-known screening effects, we identify two additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

The subbands of weakly coupled double-layer two dimensional electron gas systems consist of narrowly spaced pairs whose corresponding wavefunctions are symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of isolated layer subband wavefunctions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Swierkowski , A. H. MacDonald