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The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

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By Faraday-rotation fluctuation spectroscopy one measures the spin noise via Faraday-induced fluctuations of the polarization plane of a laser transmitting the sample. In the fist part of this paper, we present a theoretical model of recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Spin fluctuation and transition have always been one of central topics of magnetism and condensed matter science. Experimentally, the spin fluctuation is found transcribed onto scattering intensity in the neutron scattering process, which…

Spintronics refers commonly to phenomena in which the spin of electrons in a solid state environment plays the determining role. In a more narrow sense spintronics is an emerging research field of electronics: spintronics devices are based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Fabian , A. Matos-Abiague , C. Ertler , P. Stano , I. Zutic

Spin relaxometry using solid-state spin defects, such as the diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, probes dynamical processes by measuring how environmental fluctuations enhance the spin relaxation rate. In the weak-coupling limit,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Ruotian Gong , Alex L. Melendez , Guanghui He , Zhongyuan Liu , Chong Zu , Huan Zhao

SNS is a MATLAB-based software library written to aid in the design and analysis of receiver architectures. It uses electrical scattering matrices and noise wave vectors to describe receiver architectures of arbitrary topology and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 Oliver G. King

The optical injection of charge and spin currents are investigated in Ge$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$ semiconductors as a function of Sn content. These emerging silicon-compatible materials enable the modulation of these processes across the entire…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 Gabriel Fettu , John E. Sipe , Oussama Moutanabbir

We report a comprehensive study of stochastic electron spin fluctuations -- spin noise -- in lightly doped ($n$-type) bulk GaAs, which are measured using sensitive optical magnetometry based on off-resonant Faraday rotation. Frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. A. Crooker , L. Cheng , D. L. Smith

The spin degree of freedom of an electron or a nucleus is one of the most basic properties of nature and functions as an excellent qubit, as it provides a natural two-level system that is insensitive to electric fields, leading to long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Guido Burkard , Thaddeus D. Ladd , John M. Nichol , Andrew Pan , Jason R. Petta

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a powerful technique for probing the nanoscale structure of materials. However, the fundamental limitations of neutron flux pose significant challenges for rapid, high-fidelity data acquisition…

Ability to read-out the state of a single confined spin lies at the heart of solid-state quantum information processing. While all-optical spin measurements using Faraday rotation has been successfully implemented in ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mete Atature , Jan Dreiser , Antonio Badolato , Atac Imamoglu

The photon spin is an important resource for quantum information processing as is the electron spin in spintronics. However, for subwavelength confined optical excitations, polarization as a global property of a mode cannot be defined.…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Enno Krauss , Gary Razinskas , Dominik Köck , Swen Grossmann , Bert Hecht

Recent progress in the application of color centers to nanoscale spin sensing makes the combined use of noise spectroscopy and scanning probe imaging an attractive route for the characterization of arbitrary material systems. Unfortunately,…

An applied magnetic field affects a superconductor in two ways -- by promoting pairing fluctuations, and by inducing topological defects called vortices that carry quantized magnetic flux. A quantitative characterization of the resultant…

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Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image synthesis, with their generative trajectories fundamentally exhibiting a spectral bias, resolving low-frequency global structures early and high-frequency fine details later. Conventional…

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We attract attention to the fact that the ultimate (shot-noise-limited) polarimetric sensitivity can be enhanced by orders of magnitude leaving the photon flux incident onto the photodetector on the same low level. This opportunity is of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 P. Glasenapp , A. Greilich , I. I. Ryzhov , V. S. Zapasskii , D. R. Yakovlev , G. G. Kozlov , M. Bayer

Sensing the internal dynamics of individual nuclear spins or clusters of nuclear spins has recently become possible by observing the coherence decay of a nearby electronic spin: the weak magnetic noise is amplified by a periodic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 J. E. Lang , Ren-Bao Liu , T. S. Monteiro

Coherent spin resonance methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy have led to spectrally highly sensitive, non-invasive quantum imaging techniques with groundbreaking applications in…