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The helical spin texture on the surface of topological crystalline insulators (TCI) makes these materials attractive for application in spintronics. In this work, spin-polarization and electronic structure of surface states of…

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We have used spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy to observe the spin-polarization state of individual Fe and Cr atoms adsorbed onto Co nanoislands. Both of these magnetic adatoms exhibit stationary out-of-plane spin-polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Yayon , V. W. Brar , L. Senapati , S. C. Erwin , M. F. Crommie

We report electronic control and measurement of an imbalance between spin-up and spin-down electrons in micron-scale open quantum dots. Spin injection and detection was achieved with quantum point contacts tuned to have spin-selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. J. Koop , B. J. van Wees , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , C. H. van der Wal

The nature of the nano-scale environment presents a major challenge for solid-state implementation of spin-based qubits. In this work, a single electron spin in an optically pumped nanometer-sized III-V semiconductor quantum dot is used to…

We propose a computationally efficient atom-superposition-based method for simulating spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy (SP-STS) on complex magnetic surfaces based on the sample and tip electronic structures obtained from first…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-17 Krisztián Palotás , Werner A. Hofer , László Szunyogh

We use all-electrical methods to inject, transport, and detect spin-polarized electrons vertically through a 350-micron-thick undoped single-crystal silicon wafer. Spin precession measurements in a perpendicular magnetic field at different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

We demonstrate experimentally that a polarized nuclear spin modifies the dynamic behavior of a neighboring electronic spin. Specifically, an out-of-phase component appears in the electronic spin-echo signal. This component is proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Paz London , Ran Fischer , Ignacio Alvizu , Jeronimo R. Maze , David Gershoni

We consider a semiconducting carbon nanotube (CNT) laying on a ferromagnetic insulating sub-strate with one end depassing the substrate and suspended over a metallic gate. We assume that the polarised substrate induces an exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 F. Pistolesi , R. Shekhter

There exists considerable confusion in estimating the spin diffusion length of materials with high spin-orbit coupling from spin pumping experiments. For designing functional devices, it is important to determine the spin diffusion length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Kuntal Roy

Unrevealing local magnetic and electronic correlations in the vicinity of charge carriers is crucial in order to understand rich physical properties in correlated electron systems. Here, using high-energy optical conductivity (up to 35 eV)…

Spin-momentum locking in the surface mode of topological insulators (TI) leads to the surface accumulation of spin-polarized electrons caused by bias current flows through TI samples. Here, we demonstrate that scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 S. Tyagi , M. Dreyer , D. Bowen , D. Hinkel , P. J. Taylor , A. L. Friedman , R. E. Butera , C. Krafft , I. Mayergoyz

We consider a p-polarized surface electromagnetic wave (a classical surface polariton) at the interface between the vacuum and a metal or left-handed medium. We show that the evanescent electromagnetic waves forming the surface polariton…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

We report a first-principle study on electronic structure and simulation of the spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy graphic of a benzene/Fe4N interface. Fe4N is a compound ferromagnet suitable for many spintronic applications. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-01 Qian Zhang , Wenbo Mi , Xiaocha Wang , Xuhui Wang

Manipulating the spin polarization of electron beams using light is highly desirable but exceedingly challenging, as the approaches proposed in previous studies using free-space light usually require enormous laser intensities. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu

We report on a new method to determine the degree of bulk spin polarization in single crystal Co$_{(1-x)}$Fe$_x$S$_2$ by modeling magnetic Compton scattering with {\it ab initio} calculations. Spin-dependent Compton profiles were measured…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Utfeld , S. R. Giblin , J. W. Taylor , J. A. Duffy , C. Shenton-Taylor , J. Laverock , S. B. Dugdale , M. Manno , C. Leighton , M. Itou , Y. Sakurai

The transmission of a pump laser resonant with the lower polariton branch of a semiconductor microcavity is shown to be highly dependent on the degree of circular polarization of the pump. Spin dependent anisotropy of polariton-polariton…

Quasiparticle interference patterns measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to study the local electronic structure of metal surfaces and high temperature superconductors. Here, we show that even in non-magnetic systems…

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense two-color laser pulse are investigated comprehensively in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a Monte Carlo method, derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Jian-Xing Li , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong Li

We report on the origin of ferromagnetic like behaviour observed for 2.4 nm size Pd nanoparticles. Localised magnetic moments on metallic surfaces have been recently shown to induce orbital motion of the itinerant electrons via spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hernando , B. Sampedro , M. A. Garcia , P. Marin , G. Rivero , P. Crespo , J. M. Gonzalez