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We study the spin-dependent conductance of ballistic mesoscopic ring systems in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that, for the setup proposed, even a small Zeeman splitting can lead to a considerable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus Popp , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

Spin currents resulting in the zero-bias spin separation have been observed in unbiased diluted magnetic semiconductor structures (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te. The pure spin current generated due to the electron gas heating by terahertz radiation is…

Persistent currents (PCs) in mesoscopic rings have been a subject of intense investigation since their proposal by B\"uttiker, Landauer, and Imry in 1983. In this paper, we explore the behavior of PC in spin-orbit coupled rings under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Subroto Mukerjee , Abhiram Soori

Creating, manipulating and detecting spin polarized carriers are the key elements of spin based electronics. Most practical devices use a perpendicular geometry in which the spin currents, describing the transport of spin angular momentum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Abraham Slachter , Frank Lennart Bakker , Jean-Paul Adam , Bart Jan van Wees

We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 Faluke Aikebaier , Mihail A. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä

We propose a scheme to generate quantum spin current via optical dipole transition process. By coupling a three-level system based on the spin states of charged particles (electrons or holes in semiconductor) to the angular momentum states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiong-Jun Liu , Xin Liu , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh , Mo-Lin Ge

We investigate a mesoscopic spin current for strongly interacting Fermi gases through a quantum point contact. Under the situation where spin polarizations in left and right reservoirs are same in magnitude but opposite in sign, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-13 Yuta Sekino , Hiroyuki Tajima , Shun Uchino

We propose three different mechanisms for pumping spin-polarized currents in a ballistic circuit using a time-dependent magnetic field acting on an asymmetrically connected quantum ring at half filling. The first mechanism works thanks to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Michele Cini , Stefano Bellucci

We investigate persistent charge and spin currents in a magnetic quantum ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, in the presence of a side-coupled one-dimensional non-magnetic chain. The neighboring magnetic moments in the ring are arranged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Sourav Karmakar , Suparna Sarkar , Santanu K. Maiti

The spin currents generated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the nonmagnetic metal layer or at the interface with broken inversion symmetry are of particular interest and importance. Here, we have explored the spin current generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-02 Q. B. Liu , K. K. Meng , S. Q. Zheng , Y. C. Wu , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Jiang

We propose an all-electrical nanoscopic structure where {\em pure} spin current is induced in the transverse voltage probes attached to {\em quantum-coherent} one-dimensional ring when conventional unpolarized charge current is injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

We show theoretically that stimulated spin flip Raman scattering can be used to inject spin currents in doped semiconductors with spin split bands. A pure spin current, where oppositely oriented spins move in opposite directions, can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Najmaie , E. Ya. Sherman , J. E. Sipe

The interconversion between charge and spin degrees of freedom is of both fundamental and technological relevance in spintronics. While a non-equilibrium spin density and a charge current are related by the well known Rashba-Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Marc Vila , Joel E. Moore

We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in an in-plane magnetic field to be measured. A transverse focusing geometry is used to couple current from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Potok , J. A. Folk , C. M. Marcus , V. Umansky

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman , Feifei Li

Coulomb drag between two quantum wires is exponentially sensitive to the mismatch of their electronic densities. The application of a magnetic field can compensate this mismatch for electrons of opposite spin directions in different wires.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , E. G. Mishchenko , O. A. Starykh

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We consider a mesoscopic normal metal, where the spin degeneracy is lifted by a ferromagnetic exchange field or Zeeman splitting, coupled to two superconducting reservoirs. As a function of the exchange field or the distance between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tero T. Heikkila , Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schoen

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

A formula of the spin current in mesoscopic superconductors is derived from the mean-field theory of superconductivity. The spin flow is generated by the spatial fluctuations of $\vec{d}$ which represents a spin state of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Asano