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The coupling between a current and a Bloch wall is examined in the half-metal limit of the double exchange model. The conduction electrons transfer angular momentum to the Bloch wall with 100% efficiency in the absence of pinning. The wall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Barnes , S. Maekawa

Magnon-mediated spin transport across nonmagnetic metal (NM) and ferromagnetic insulator (FI) interface depends critically on electron-magnon coupling. We propose a novel route to enhance electron-magnon coupling dynamically from transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Gaoyang Li , Hao Jin , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

We investigate dynamical transport properties of interacting electrons moving in a vibrating nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field. We have built an exactly solvable model in which electric current and mechanical oscillation are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hangmo Yi , Kang-Hun Ahn

Inspired by its central role in many biological processes, the transport of biopolymers across nanoscale pores is at the heart of a single-molecule sensing technology aimed at nucleic acid and protein sequencing, as well as biomarker…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Martin Charron , Breeana Elliott , Nada Kerrouri , Liqun He , Vincent Tabard-Cossa

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we have developed algorithms and a program code to investigate the electron transport characteristics for a variety of nanometer scaled devices in the presence of an external bias voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 Woo Youn Kim , Kwang S. Kim

In this paper we report the theory describing the electro-osmotic flow in charged nanopores with constant radius and charge density driven by alternating current. We solve the ion and solution transport in unsteady conditions as described…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 J. Catalano , P. M. Biesheuvel

Current Induced Resistance Switching (CIS) was recently observed in thin tunnel junctions (TJs) with ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes and attributed to electromigration of metallic atoms in nanoconstrictions in the insulating barrier. The CIS…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ventura , Z. Zhang , Y. Liu , J. B. Sousa , P. P. Freitas

We demonstrate that giant current and high spin rectification ratios can be achieved in atomic carbon chain devices connected between two symmetric ferromagnetic zigzag-graphene-nanoribbon electrodes. The spin dependent transport simulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-01 Y. J. Dong , X. F. Wang , S. W. Yang , X. M. Wu

We study the interaction between two closely spaced but electrically isolated quasi-one-dimensional electrical wires by a drag experiment. In this work we experimentally demonstrate the generation of current in an unbiased (drag) wire,…

Carbon nanoconductors are known to have extraordinary mechanical strength and interesting magnetic properties. Moreover, nanoconductors based on one- or two-dimensional carbon allotropes display a very high current-carrying capacity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Susanne Leitherer , Nick R. Papior , Mads Brandbyge

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in nanoelectromechanical devices, current-driven quantum machines, and the mechanical effects of electric currents on nanoscale conductors. Here, we carry out a thorough study of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Sebastián E. Deghi , Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar , Horacio M. Pastawski , Raúl A. Bustos-Marún

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Slow magnetic relaxation and two level fluctuations measurements under high current injection is performed in single-contacted ferromagnetic nanostructures. The magnetic configurations of the samples are described by two metastable states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -E. Wegrowe

Electromigration phenomena in metallic lines are studied by using a biased resistor network model. The void formation induced by the electron wind is simulated by a stochastic process of resistor breaking, while the growth of mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Pennetta , E. Alfinito , L. Reggiani , F. Fantini , I. DeMunari , A. Scorzoni

To assist the design of novel, highly efficient molecular junctions, a deep understanding of the precise charge transport mechanisms through these devices is of prime importance. In the present contribution, we describe a procedure to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Vincent Pohl , Lukas Eugen Marsoner Steinkasserer , Jean Christophe Tremblay

We study the electronic transport through uniformly bent carbon nanotubes. For this purpose, we describe the nanotube with the tight-binding model and calculate the local current flow by employing non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Eric Kleinherbers , Thomas Stegmann , Nikodem Szpak

We study the current-voltage characteristics of Fe(Se,Te) thin films deposited on CaF$_2$ substrates in form of nanostrips (width $w\sim\lambda$, $\lambda$ the London penetration length). In view of a possible application of these materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-20 C. Nappi , C. Camerlingo , E. Enrico , E. Bellingeri , V. Braccini , C. Ferdeghini , E. Sarnelli