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To study the effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on spin-transfer torque in magnetic materials, we have implemented two theoretical formalisms that can accommodate SOC. Using the "charge-pumping" formalism, we find two contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 Zhe Yuan , Paul J. Kelly

A brief survey of the author's works on the quantum theory of magnetism. Theoretical foundation and applications of the generalized spin-fermion (sp-d) exchange lattice model to various magnetic systems, e.g., rare-earth metals and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. L. Kuzemsky

Spin dynamics in spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields is studied within the framework of Boltzmann theory. Stern-Gerlach-like separation of spin up and spin down electrons occurs in ballistic and diffusive regimes, before spin relaxation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

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

Rigorous coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived from quantum-kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix that incorporate effects due to k-linear spin-orbit interaction, an in-plane electric field, and the elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

A set of equations is derived from the Boltzmann kinetic equation describing charge transport in semiconductors. The unknowns of these equations depend on the space-time coordinates and the electron energy. The non-parabolic and parabolic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. F. Liotta , A. Majorana

The full quantum dynamics of a spinon under external magnetic fields is investigated by using the time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) method within the microcanonical picture of transport. We show that the center of the spinon oscillates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-02 Zi Cai , Lei Wang , X. C. Xie , U. Schollwöck , X. R. Wang , M. Di Ventra , Yupeng Wang

Starting from kinetic theory description of massive spin-1/2 particles in presence of magnetic field, equations for relativistic dissipative non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics are obtained in the small polarization limit. We use a…

A general form of the Hamiltonian for electrons confined to a curved one-dimensional (1D) channel with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in momentum is rederived and is applied to a U-shaped channel. Discretizing the derived continuous 1D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Ming-Hao Liu , Jhih-Sheng Wu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We develop a simple theoretical framework for transport in magnetic multilayers, based on Landauer-Buttiker scattering formalism and Random Matrix Theory. A simple transformation allows one to go from the scattering point of view to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Valentin S. Rychkov , Simone Borlenghi , Henri Jaffres , Albert Fert , Xavier Waintal

We set up a set of many-body kinetic Bloch equations with spacial inhomogeneity. We reexamine the widely adopted quasi-independent electron model (QIEM) and show the inadequacy of this model in studying the spin transport. We further point…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We present a framework for modeling the transport of any number of globally conserved quantities in any spatial configuration and apply it to obtain a model of magnetization transport for spin-systems that is valid in new regimes (including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Rico A. R. Picone , Joseph L. Garbini , John A. Sidles

We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and precesses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Milena Filipovic , Cecilia Holmqvist , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

We describe the spin and charge dynamics of the system of two electrons confined within a double quantum dot defined in a quantum wire. The spin dynamics is driven by the electron motion in presence of the spin-orbit interaction and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 J. Leśnicki , B. Szafran

We show how to exploit algebraic relations of operators (or matrices) which constitute the non-equilibrium matrix product steady state of a boundary driven quantum spin chain to find partial differential equations determining all the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-08 Berislav Buca , Tomaz Prosen

We systematically derive a linear quantum collision operator for the spinorial Wigner transport equation from the dynamics of a composite quantum system. For suitable two particle interaction potentials, the particular matrix form of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Benjamin A. Stickler , Stefan Possanner

We model the electron and hole spin dynamics in an undoped double quantum dot structure, considering the carrier tunneling between quantum dots. Taking into account also the presence of an in-plane or tilted magnetic field, we provide the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 Michał Gawełczyk , Paweł Machnikowski

When impurity and phonon scattering coexist, the Boltzmann equation has been solved accurately for nonlinear electron transport in a quantum wire. Based on the calculated non-equilibrium distribution of electrons in momentum space, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs

We consider a two dimensional semiconductor with carriers subject to spin-orbit interactions and scattered by randomly distributed magnetic impurities. We solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation to investigate the relationship…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. L. van den Berg , A. Verga

The transport of magnetization is analyzed for the classical Heisenberg chain at and especially above the isotropic point. To this end, the Hamiltonian equations of motion are solved numerically for initial states realizing harmonic-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-15 Robin Steinigeweg