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We study spin relaxation and diffusion in an electron-spin ensemble of nitrogen impurities in diamond at low temperature (0.25-1.2 K) and polarizing magnetic field (80-300 mT). Measurements exploit mode- and temperature-dependent coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 V. Ranjan , G. de Lange , R. Schutjens , T. Debelhoir , J. P. Groen , D. Szombati , D. J. Thoen , T. M. Klapwijk , R. Hanson , L. DiCarlo

The spin transport characteristics of a nanowire directional electronic coupler have been evaluated theoretically via a transfer matrix approach. The application of a gate field in the region of mixing allows for control of spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Rebello Sousa Dias , V. Lopez-Richard , G. E. Marques , S. E. Ulloa

We report spin valve behavior in an organic nanowire consisting of three layers - cobalt, Alq3 and nickel - all nominally 50 nm in diameter. Based on the data, we conclude that the dominant spin relaxation mechanism in Alq3 is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Pramanik , C-G. Stefanita , S. Bandyopadhyay , K. Garre , N. Harth , M. Cahay

We develop a theory of spin noise in semiconductor nanowires considered as prospective elements for spintronics. In these structures spin-orbit coupling can be realized as a random function of coordinate correlated on the spatial scale of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

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

A spin transport model is employed to study the effects of spin dephasing induced by diffusion-driven transit-time uncertainty through semiconductor spintronic devices where drift is the dominant transport mechanism. It is found that in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Ian Appelbaum

A possibility of controlled manipulation of electron spin states has been investigated for a cylindrical two-dimensional electron gas confined in a semiconductor nanotube/cylindrical nanowire with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski , M. Wołoszyn , B. J. Spisak

We investigate the spin dynamics and relaxation in remotely-doped two dimensional electron systems where the dopants lead to random fluctuations of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Due to the resulting random spin precession, the spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , Jairo Sinova

We investigate the spin dynamics of electrons in quantum wells where the Rashba type of spin-orbit coupling is present in the form of random nanosize domains. We study the effect of magnetic field on the spin relaxation in these systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

We develop a theory of spin-dependent phenomena in the streaming regime characterized by ballistic acceleration of electrons in the moderate electric field until they achieve the optical phonon energy and abruptly emit the phonons. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

In this work, we study a possibility to measure the transverse and longitudinal relaxation times of a collection of polarized nuclear spins located in the region of a quantum wire via its conductance. The interplay of an external in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 James A. Nesteroff , Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

We investigate the charge and spin transport of a voltage-biased superconducting point contact coupled to a nanomagnet. The magnetization of the nanomagnet is assumed to precess with the Larmor frequency, $\omega_L$, due to ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Cecilia Holmqvist , Mikael Fogelström , Wolfgang Belzig

We have investigated the transport of spin polarization through a classically chaotic semiconductor loop with a strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We found that if the escape time of a particle is long enough, the configuration averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Mal'shukov , V. Shlyapin , K. A. Chao

We report the anomalous Dyakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in ultracold spin-orbit coupled $^{40}$K gas when the coupling between $|9/2,9/2\ >$ and $|9/2,7/2\ >$ states (atcing as the effective Zeeman magnetic field) is much stronger than the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-23 T. Yu , M. W. Wu

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We report the first measurement of 1/f type noise associated with electronic spin transport, using single layer graphene as a prototypical material with a large and tunable Hooge parameter. We identify the presence of two contributions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 S. Omar , M. H. D. Guimarães , A. Kaverzin , B. J. van Wees , I. J. Vera-Marun

Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

The contributions to the spin relaxation in copper (Cu) nanowires are quantified by carefully analyzing measurements of both charge and spin transport in lateral spin valves as a function of temperature and thickness. The temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Estitxu Villamor , Miren Isasa , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova