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Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

The transfer of charge between different regions of a phase-coherent mesoscopic sample is investigated. Charge transfer from a side branch quantum dot into a ring changes the persistent current through a sequence of plateaus of diamagnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Büttiker , C. A. Stafford

A new proposal is given to design a spin half-adder in a nano-junction. It is well known that at finite voltage a net circulating current (known as circular current) appears within a mesoscopic ring under asymmetric ring-to-electrode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Moumita Patra

We investigate the charge and spin transport in a non-Hermitian ring of electrons subject to an external Zeeman field. By introducing non-Hermiticity through anti-Hermitian hopping in the nearest neighbour bonds, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Soumya Ranjan Padhi , Souvik Roy , Tapan Mishra

The generation of collinear spin current (CSC), where both the propagation direction and spin-polarized direction aligned perpendicularly to the applied charge current, is crucial for efficiently manipulating systems with perpendicular…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 M. Q. Dong , Zhi-Xin Guo , Xin-Gao Gong

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

Mesoscopic conductors are electronic systems of sizes in between nano- and micrometers, and often of reduced dimensionality. In the phase-coherent regime at low temperatures, the conductance of these devices is governed by quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Michael Wimmer , Matthias Scheid , Klaus Richter

In this article, we have discussed about the scattering of charge and spin in spin-resolved mesoscopic systems. We have proposed a method to generate and detect the entanglement of electronic spin and electronic orbital degrees of freedom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bibek Bhandari

The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation of charged, massive fermions in a rotating frame of reference, in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is solved in the relaxation time approach to establish the distribution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Yunt

Recent precision measurements of mesoscopic persistent currents in normal-metal rings rely on the interaction between the magnetic moment generated by the current and a large applied magnetic field. Motivated by this technique, we extend…

Nonequilibrium charge transport in superconductors has been investigated intensely in the 1970s and 80s, mostly in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Much less attention has been focussed on low temperatures, and the role of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-18 M. J. Wolf , F. Hübler , S. Kolenda , D. Beckmann

We discuss spontaneous spin current generation from the vacuum by strong electric fields as a result of interplay between the Schwinger mechanism and a spin-orbit coupling. By considering a homogeneous slow strong electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Xu-Guang Huang , Mamoru Matsuo , Hidetoshi Taya

We propose a spin-mechanical device to control and detect spin currents by mechanical torque. Our hybrid nano-electro-mechanical device, which contains a nanowire with a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic interface, is designed to measure or induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Mohanty , G. Zolfagharkhani , S. Kettemann , P. Fulde

A device enabling mechanically-controlled spin and electric transport in mesoscopic structures is proposed. It is based on the transfer of electrons through weak links formed by suspended nanowires, on which the charge carriers experience a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

Correlations are fundamental in describing many body systems - not only in natural sciences. However, in experiments, correlations are notoriously difficult to assess on the microscopic scale, especially for electron spins. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Arunav Bordoloi , Valentina Zannier , Lucia Sorba , Christian Schönenberger , Andreas Baumgartner

Using the wave nature of the electrons, we demonstrate that a transverse spin current can be generated simply by the diffraction through a single slit in the spin-orbital coupling system of the two-dimensional electron gas. The diffracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Chyh-Hong Chern , Cheng-Ju Lin

Theoretical calculations predict the dissipationless circulating current induced by a spin defect in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. The shape and spatial extent of these dissipationless circulating currents depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Adonai R. da Cruz , Michael E. Flatté

The origin of spin-orbit torques generated from the conversion of charge-to-spin currents is of considerable debate. Solid understanding of the physics behind is key to the development of current and voltage controlled switching dynamics in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-14 Yuanmin Du

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki