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The fundamental aspects of spin-dependent transport processes and their interplay with temperature gradients, as given by the spin Seebeck coefficient, are still largely unexplored and a multitude of contributing factors must be considered.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-23 Roman Kováčik , Phivos Mavropoulos , Daniel Wortmann , Stefan Blügel

Inspired by the problem of elastic wave scattering on wrinkled interfaces, we studied the scattering of ballistic electrons on a wrinkled potential energy region. The electron transmission coefficient depends on both wrinkle amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 T. L. Mitran , G. A. Nemnes , L. Ion , Daniela Dragoman

We present the generalization of the two-dimensional quantum scattering formalism to systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using symmetry considerations, we show that the differential scattering cross section depends on the spin state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Andras Palyi , Jozsef Cserti

The spin orbit interactions (SOI) of light mediated by single scattering from plasmon resonant metal nanoparticles (nanorods and nanospheres) are investigated using explicit theory based on Jones and Stokes-Mueller polarimetry formalism.…

Broken symmetries in graphene affect the massless nature of its charge carriers. We present an analysis of scattering by defects in graphene in the presence of spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). A characteristic constant ratio ($\simeq 2$) of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

We study the spin edge states, induced by the combined effect of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and hard-wall confining potential, in a two-dimensional electron system, exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. We find an exact solution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 V. L. Grigoryan , A. Matos Abiague , S. M. Badalyan

Theory of electron-acoustic single phonon scattering has been reconsidered. It is assumed that the non-degenerate semiconductor has a spherical parabolic band structure. In the basis of the reconsideration there is a phenomenon of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 S. V. Melkonyan , A. L. Harutyunyan , T. A. Zalinyan

The problem of electron resonant and non-resonant scatterings on two magnetized barriers is studied in the one-dimension. The transfer-matrix is built up to exactly calculate the coefficient of the electron transmittance through the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Armen N. Kocharian , Avag S. Sahakyan , Ruzan M. Movsesyan

We report measurements of spin-dependent scattering of conduction electrons by neutral donors in an accumulation-mode field-effect transistor formed in isotopically enriched silicon. Spin-dependent scattering was detected using electrically…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. C. Lo , J. Bokor , T. Schenkel , A. M. Tyryshkin , S. A. Lyon

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) plays a key role in creating Majorana zero modes in semiconductor nanowires proximity coupled to a superconductor. We track the evolution of the induced superconducting gap in InSb nanowires coupled to a NbTiN…

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We report the experimental observation of spin-induced magnetoresistance in single-wall carbon nanotubes contacted with high-transparency ferromagnetic electrodes. In the linear regime the spin-induced magnetoresistance oscillates with gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Man , I. J. W. Wever , A. F. Morpurgo

During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the quantum transport of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary chiralities. For certain spin directions, we find a strong spin-polarized electrical current that depends on the diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , J. E. Alvarellos , Leonor Chico

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems formed in diluted magnetic semiconductors and in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the framework of the scattering matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Anh T. Ngo , J. M. Villas-Boas , Sergio E. Ulloa

We develop an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for spin-orbit (SO) interaction in bent carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the electrons forming the $\pi$ bonds between the nearest neighbor atoms. We account for the bend of the CNT and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 E. N. Osika , B. Szafran

The effects of spin-orbit scattering on discrete electronic energy levels are studied in copper, silver, and gold nanoparticles. Level-to-level fluctuations of the effective $g$-factor for Zeeman splitting are characterized, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 J. R. Petta , D. C. Ralph

Recently, it was suggested that the polarization dependence of light absorption to a single-walled carbon nanotube is altered by carrier doping. We specify theoretically the doping level at which the polarization anisotropy is reversed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Ken-ichi Sasaki , Yasuhiro Tokura

Electronic properties of metal-finite semiconducting carbon nanotube interfaces are studied as a function of the nanotube length using a self-consistent tight-binding theory. We find that the shape of the potential barrier depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yongqiang Xue , Mark A. Ratner

We investigate the total spin in an individual single-wall carbon nanotube quantum dot with various numbers of electrons in a shell by using the ratio of the saturation currents of the first steps of Coulomb staircases for positive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Satoshi Moriyama , Tomoko Fuse , Tomohiro Yamaguchi , Koji Ishibashi