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Spin polarization of the tunnel conductivity has been studied for Fe/GaAs junctions with Schottky barriers. It is shown that band matching of resonant interface states within the Schottky barrier defines the sign of spin polarization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Honda , H. Itoh , J. Inoue , H. Kurebayashi , T. Trypiniotis , C. H. W. Barnes , A. Hirohata , J. A. C. Bland

This work considers the confining and scattering phenomena of electrons in a Lieb lattice subjected to the influence of a rectangular electrostatic barrier. In this setup, hopping amplitudes between nearest neighbors in orthogonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya

We demonstrate that information can be transmitted and processed with pure spin currents in silicon. Fe/Al2O3 tunnel barrier contacts are used to produce significant electron spin polarization in the silicon, generating a spin current which…

In systems with spin-momentum locking, such as the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators, a charge current is spin-polarized and spin-flip interactions between electron and nuclear spins can transfer this polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Sofie Kölling , İnanç Adagideli , Alexander Brinkman

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems in the hydrodynamic flow regime, when the normal scattering processes, which conserve the total quasi-momentum of the system of electrons and quasi-particles that interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , S. B. Rutkevich , A. V. Yanovsky , A. N. Yashin

The high efficiency of a tunnel magnetic transistor as a source of spin-polarized electrons has been proven recently [X. Jiang {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 90}, 256603 (2003)]. A concept of this device based on an active group of hot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel I. Rashba

We theoretically study tunneling of Cooper pairs from an s-wave superconductor into two semiconductor quantum wires with strong spin-orbit interaction under magnetic field, which approximate helical Luttinger liquids. The entanglement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Koji Sato , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We analyze spin scattering in ballistic transport of electrons through a ripple at a normal incidence of an electron flow. The model of a ripple consists of a curved graphene surface in the form of an arc of a circle connected from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 M. Pudlak , K. N. Pichugin , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in an in-plane magnetic field to be measured. A transverse focusing geometry is used to couple current from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Potok , J. A. Folk , C. M. Marcus , V. Umansky

We propose to use the lateral interface between two regions with different strengths of the spin-orbit interaction(s) to spin-polarize the electrons in gated two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. For a beam with a non zero angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Khodas , A. Shekhter , A. M. Finkel'stein

We study the spin-dependent scattering of charge carriers in a magnetized one dimensional Luttinger liquid from a localized non-homogeneous magnetic field, which might be brought about by the stray field of magnetic tip near a uniform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-15 M. A. N Araujo , J. Berakdar , V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira

Effect of the spin-involved interaction of electrons with impurity atoms or defects to the transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas is described by using a simplifying two-component model. Components representing spin-up and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Seba , P. Exner , K. N. Pichugin , P. Streda

We study theoretically some symmetry properties of spin currents and spin polarizations in multi-terminal mesoscopic spin-orbit coupled systems. Based on a scattering wave function approach, we show rigorously that in the equilibrium state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

We propose and investigate a spin transistor device consisting of two ferromagnetic leads connected by a two-dimensional topological insulator as the channel material. It exploits the unique features of the topological spin-helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Xianbo Xiao , Ying Liu , Zhengfang Liu , Guoping Ai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Guanghui Zhou

We propose a new scheme of spin filtering employing ballistic nanostructures in two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). The proposal is essentially based on the spin-orbit (SO) interaction arising from the lateral confining electric field.…

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

We study the transverse spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) thin film, such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$, which is sandwiched between two normal metal leads. The temperature bias $\Delta T$ applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Po-Hao Chang , Farzad Mahfouzi , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic

We experimentally investigate spin-polarized electron transport between two ferromagnetic contacts, placed at the edge of a two-dimensional electron system with band inversion. The system is realized in a narrow (8~nm) HgTe quantum well,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 A. Kononov , S. V. Egorov , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , E. V. Deviatov

We show that a quantum wire device with spin splitting can work as an active spin polarizer. Hot electrons in one `spin' subband (e.g. `spin-up') may pass such a device with weak electron pair scattering, while electrons in the opposite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

We show that the electron spin polarization generated by an electrical current may have its direction controlled and magnitude amplified by periodic optical excitation. The electrical and optical spin control methods were combined and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Felix G. G. Hernandez , Gennady M. Gusev , Askhat K. Bakarov

Spintronics, a technology harnessing electron spin for information transmission, offers a promising avenue to surpass the limitations of conventional electronic devices. While the spin directly interacts with the magnetic field, its control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Run-Wu Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Runze Li , Jingyi Duan , Lei Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao