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We investigate numerically charge, spin, and entanglement dynamics of two electrons confined in a gated semiconductor nanowire. The electrostatic coupling between electrons in the nanowire and the charges in the metal gates leads to a…

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We demonstrate numerically the existence of a spin-motive force acting on spin-carriers when moving in a time and space dependent internal field. This is the case of electrons in a one-dimensional wires with a precessing domain wall. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria Stamenova , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Stefano Sanvito

We investigate the spin-resolved electron dynamics in a double quantum dot driven by ultrafast asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. Using a analytical model we show that applying an appropriate pulse sequence allows to control coherently the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 J. Waetzel , A. S. Moskalenko , J. Berakdar

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Spin related phenomena in quantum nanostructures have attracted recently much interest due to fast growing field of spintronics. In particular complex nanostructures are important as they provide a versatile system to manipulate spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 M. Kurpas , B. Kędzierska , I. Janus-Zygmunt , M. M. Maśka , E. Zipper

We study spin control for an electron confined in a flake of silicene. We find that the lowest-energy conduction-band levels are split by the diagonal intrinsic spin-orbit coupling into Kramers doublets with a definite projection of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Bartlomiej Szafran , Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Bartlomiej Rzeszotarski , Dariusz Zebrowski

A semiconductor nanowire quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be used to achieve a spin-orbit qubit. In contrast to a spin qubit, the spin-orbit qubit can respond to an external ac electric field, an effect called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Rui Li , J. Q. You , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , Yu-Peng Wang , X. C. Xie

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie

Resonant behavior involving spin-orbit entangled states occurs for spin transport along a narrow channel defined in a two-dimensional electron gas, including an apparent rapid relaxation of the spin polarization for special values of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 D. H. Berman , M. Khodas , M. E. Flatté

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 ability to control the quantum state of a single electron spin in a quantum dot is at the heart of recent developments towards a scalable spin-based quantum computer. In combination with the recently demonstrated exchange gate between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. H. L. Koppens , C. Buizert , K. J. Tielrooij , I. T. Vink , K. C. Nowack , T. Meunier , L. P. Kouwenhoven , L. M. K. Vandersypen

The transport of quantum information between different nodes of a quantum device is among the challenging functionalities of a quantum processor. In the context of spin qubits, this requirement can be met by coherent electron spin shuttling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Florian Ginzel , Adam R. Mills , Jason R. Petta , Guido Burkard

The usual models for electrical spin manipulation in semiconductor quantum dots assume that the confinement potential is separable in the three spatial dimensions and that the AC drive field is homogeneous. However, the electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Biel Martinez , José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel , Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena , Yann-Michel Niquet

We propose that a magnetic quantum wire composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be used as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Liquid He-4 is free from magnetic defects, making it an ideal substrate for electrons with long-lived spin states. Such states can serve as qubit states. Here we consider the spin states of electrons electrostatically localized in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 M. I. Dykman , Ofek Asban , Qianfan Chen , Dafei Jin , S. A. Lyon

A consistent theory to describe the correlated dynamics of quantum mechanical itinerant spins and semiclassical local magnetization is given. We consider the itinerant spins as quantum mechanical operators, whereas local moments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jun-ichiro Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov

We consider the dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle constrained to move in an arbitrary space curve with an external electric and magnetic field applied. With the aid of gauge theory, we successfully decouple the tangential and normal dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Guo-Hua Liang , Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Hao Zhao , Hong-Shi Zong , Hui Liu

At low temperatures, electrons in semiconductors are bound to shallow donor impurity ions, neutralizing their charge in equilibrium. Inelastic scattering of other externally-injected conduction electrons accelerated by electric fields can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Lan Qing , Jing Li , Ian Appelbaum , Hanan Dery