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We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

A useful experimental signature of the ordinary spin Hall effect is the spin accumulation it produces at the sample edges. The superspin Hall current [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094512 (2017)] is a transverse equilibrium spin current which is induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-15 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

It has been shown that tunneling of spin-polarized electrons through a semiconductor barrier is accompanied by generation of an electric current in the plane of the interfaces. The direction of this interface current is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Tarasenko , V. I. Perel' , I. N. Yassievich

Magnetization reversal is a well-studied problem with obvious applicability in computer hard-drives. One can accomplish a magnetization reversal in at least one of two ways: application of a magnetic field, or through a spin current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Fatih Dogan , Lucian Covaci , Wonkee Kim , Frank Marsiglio

We present a feasibility study with several magnetic field configurations for creating spin-dependent forces that can split a low-energy ion beam by the Stern-Gerlach effect. To the best of our knowledge, coherent spin-splittings of charged…

Harnessing spins as carriers for information has emerged as an elegant extension to the transport of electrical charges. The coherence of such spin transport in spintronic circuits is determined by the lifetime of spin excitations and by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-24 Marco Koschorreck , Daniel Pertot , Enrico Vogt , Michael Köhl

We demonstrate that spin-dependent electron diffraction is possible for a smooth range of transverse electron momenta in a two-photon Bragg scattering scenario of the Kapitza-Dirac effect. Our analysis is rendered possible by introducing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 Yang Wang , Sven Ahrens

We demonstrate theoretically that a dissipationless spin current can flow a long distance through a diffusive normal metal by using superconductors interfaced with magnetic insulators. The magnitude of this spin supercurrent is controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ingvild Gomperud , Jacob Linder

Nature creates electrons with two values of the spin projection quantum number. In certain applications, it is important to filter electrons with one spin projection from the rest. Such filtering is not trivial, since spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Areg Ghazaryan , Mikhail Lemeshko , Artem G. Volosniev

We propose a mechanism which can generate supercurrents in spin-orbit coupled superconductors with charged magnetic inclusions. The basic idea is that through spin-orbit interaction, the in-plane electric field near the edge of each…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Benjamin A. Levitan , Yuval Oreg , Erez Berg

The cavity mediated spin current between two ferrite samples has been reported by Bai et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 217201 (2017)]. This experiment was done in the linear regime of the interaction in the presence of external drive. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair , Zhedong Zhang , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

It is proposed that when a charge current circulates in a paramagnetic metal a transverse spin imbalance will be generated, giving rise to a 'spin Hall voltage'. Similarly, that when a spin current circulates a transverse charge imbalance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Hirsch

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

Superconductivity is a phenomena where an external-feeding current flows through the system without voltage drop. This indicates the existence of an energy minimum under the current feeding boundary condition. Although it is believed that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-14 Daichi Manabe , Hiroyasu Koizumi