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We present a microscopic theory of coherent quantum transport through a superconducting film between two ferromagnetic electrodes. The scattering problem is solved for the general case of ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (FSF)…

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Spin accumulation induced by spin-orbit coupling is experimentally quantified in stack with in-plane magnetic anisotropy via the contribution of spin accumulation to Hall resistances. Using a biasing direct current the spin accumulation…

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A density-functional-theory based relativistic scattering formalism is used to study charge transport through thin Pt films with room temperature lattice disorder. A Fuchs-Sondheimer specularity coefficient $p \sim 0.5$ is needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Rohit S. Nair , Max S. Rang , Paul J. Kelly

Scanning tunneling miscoscopy is one of the most powerful spectroscopic tools for single-electron excitations. We show that the conductance fluctuations, or noise in the conductance, of a tunneling current into an interacting electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-03 Kelly R. Patton , Hartmut Hafermann , Sergej Brener , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Quantum spin Hall insulators have attracted significant attention in recent years. Understanding the optical properties and spin Hall effect in these materials is crucial for technological advancements. In this study, we present theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Mohammad Mortezaei Nobahari , Carmine Autieri

We investigate the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional heavy-hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Both the short- and long-range disorder scatterings are considered in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We calculate the conductance through rings with few sites $L$ described by the $t-J$ model, threaded by a magnetic flux $\Phi$ and weakly coupled to conducting leads at two arbitrary sites. The model can describe a circular array of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-09 Julian Rincon , A. A. Aligia , K. Hallberg

Here we explore the applicability of the two current model in understanding the transport behavior of Fe 2 CoSi compound by using the first principles calculations in combination with the Boltzmann transport theory. The spin-unpolarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Sonu Sharma , Sudhir K. Pandey

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

We investigate the linear and nonlinear dc transport through an interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic electrodes around Kondo regime with spin-flip scattering in the dot. Using a slave-boson mean field approach for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Ma , X. L. Lei

We compute the spin-orbit torque in a transition metal heterostructure using Slater-Koster parameterization in the two-center tight-binding approximation and accounting for d-orbitals only. In this method, the spin-orbit coupling is modeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 G. Manchon , S. Ghosh , C. Barreteau , A. Manchon

The electric and thermo-magneto-electric transport of the prototypical ferromagnetic transition-metal alloy system fcc-Co$_x$Pd$_{1-x}$ has been investigated on the basis of Kubo's linear response formalism. The results for the full…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 S. Wimmer , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Rigorous coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived from quantum-kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix that incorporate effects due to k-linear spin-orbit interaction, an in-plane electric field, and the elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

Upon reduction of the film thickness we observe a metal-insulator transition in epitaxially stabilized, spin-orbit coupled SrIrO$_3$ ultrathin films. By comparison of the experimental electronic dispersions with density functional theory at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 P. Schütz , D. Di Sante , L. Dudy , J. Gabel , M. Stübinger , M. Kamp , Y. Huang , M. Capone , M. -A. Husanu , V. Strocov , G. Sangiovanni , M. Sing , R. Claessen

The high-entropy alloys Al$_{x}$CrFeCoNi exist over a broad range of Al concentrations ($0 < x < 2$). With increasing Al content their structure is changed from the fcc to bcc phase. We investigate the effect of such structural changes on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Kudrnovský , V. Drchal , F. Máca , I. Turek , S. Khmelevskyi

We derive rigorously the relativistic angular momentum conservation equation by means of quantum electrodynamics. The novel nonrelativistic spin current and torque in the spin-orbit coupling system, up to the order of $1/c^{4}$, are exactly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Yong-Ping Fu , Dong Wang , F. J. Huang , Y. D. Li , W. M. Liu

Numerical simulations by means of the Monte Carlo method have been performed to study the electrical properties of a two-dimensional composite filled with rodlike particles. The main goal was to study the effect of the alignment of such…

We present a study of spin transport in charge and spin inhomogeneous semiconductor systems. In particular, we investigate the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two semiconductor regions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

The anomalous Hall effect in disordered band ferromagnets is considered in the framework of quantum transport theory. A microscopic model of electrons in a random potential of identical impurities including spin-orbit coupling is used. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Woelfle , K. A. Muttalib