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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…

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Effects due to the proximity of a superconductor has motivated a lot of research work in the last several decades both from theoretical and experimental point of view. In this review we are going to describe the physics of systems…

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We reveal that for the single Anderson impurity localized between non-magnetic leads of the tunneling contact $"$magnetic$"$ state can be distinguished from the $"$paramagnetic$"$ one only by the analysis of the non-stationary system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 N. S. Maslova , P. I. Arseyev , V. N. Mantsevich

We consider the problem of tunneling between two leads via a localized spin 1/2 or any other microscopic system which can be modeled by a two-level Hamiltonian. We assume that a constant magnetic field ${\bf B}_0$ acts on the spin, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. N. Bulaevskii , M. Hruška , G. Ortiz

Harnessing the unique features of topological materials for the development of a new generation of topological based devices is a challenge of paramount importance. Using Floquet scattering theory combined with atomistic models we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Matías Berdakin , Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena , L. E. F. Foa Torres

We study spin-fluctuation mediated divergent superconducting fluctuations in a Luttinger liquid proximity-coupled to a spin chain. Our study provides insight into how spin fluctuations can induce superconductivity in a strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-12 Niels Henrik Aase , Asle Sudbø

The results of scanning tunneling microscopy experiments using iron-coated tungsten tips and current-carrying bismuth selenide ($Bi_2Se_3$) samples are reported. Asymmetry in tunneling currents with respect to the change in the direction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 S. Tyagi , M. Dreyer , D. Bowen , D. Hinkel , P. J. Taylor , A. L. Friedman , R. E. Butera , C. Krafft , I. Mayergoyz

A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov , P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Odnoblyudov , V. M. Chistyakov , S. A. Tarasenko , I. N. Yassievich

High degree of electron spin polarization is of crucial importance in operation of spintronic devices. We study the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two n-type semiconductor regions with different doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

The ac conductance of a finite tubular two-dimensional electron gas is studied in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the tube is coupled to two reservoirs, that interaction splits the steps in the dc current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 E. A. Rothstein , B. Horovitz , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Electron tunneling through a single magnetic barrier in a HgTe topological insulator has been theoretically investigated. We find that the perpendicular magnetic field would not lead to spin-flip of the edge states due to the conservation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-21 L. Lin , X. Wu , W. Low , D. Zhang , Zhenhua Wu

The interaction between a spin polarized dc electrical current and spin wave modes of a cylindrical nanowire is investigated in this report. We found that close to the critical current, the uniform mode is suppressed, while the edge mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-20 Voicu O. Dolocan

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The electron transmission $T$ is evaluated through waveguides, in which the strength of the spin-orbit interaction(SOI) $\alpha$ is varied periodically, using the transfer-matrix technique. It is shown that $T$ exhibits a {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

Spin-polarized tunneling in FMS/M/FMS double tunnel junctions where FMSs are ferromagnetic semiconductor layers and M is a metal spacer is studied theoretically within the single-site coherent potential approximation (CPA). The exchange…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Saffarzadeh

The coherent mixing of the current states in the superconducting weak link subject to a Josephson phase difference $\phi$ and subject to an external transport current in the banks is one of the aims of this work. At $\phi=\pi $ the nonlocal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Gholamreza Rashedi

The tunnel ionization of an electron bounded by two delta potentials under the influence of a constant electric field is considered. The equations for the electron current density for two different initial states are obtained. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 P. A. Golovinski , A. A. Drobyshev

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Spin-momentum locking in the surface mode of topological insulators (TI) leads to the surface accumulation of spin-polarized electrons caused by bias current flows through TI samples. Here, we demonstrate that scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 S. Tyagi , M. Dreyer , D. Bowen , D. Hinkel , P. J. Taylor , A. L. Friedman , R. E. Butera , C. Krafft , I. Mayergoyz

We present a simple and pedagogical derivation of the spin current as the linear response to an external electric field for both Rashba and Luttinger spin-orbital coupling Hamiltonians. Except for the adiabatic approximation, our derivation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangping Hu , Bogdan A. Bernevig , Congjun Wu