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We investigate persistent charge and spin currents in a ferromagnetic Hatano-Nelson ring with anti-Hermitian intradimer hopping, where non-reciprocal hopping generates a synthetic magnetic flux and drives a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sourav Karmakar , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate currents in a quantum ring threaded by a magnetic flux which can be varied in an arbitrary way from an initial value $\phi_i$ at time $t_i$ to a final value $\phi_f$ at time $t_f$. Dynamics of electrons in the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Mierzejewski , J. Dajka , J. Łuczka

We discuss transport through an interferometer formed by helical edge states of the quantum spin Hall insulator. Focusing on effects induced by a strong magnetic impurity placed in one of the arms of interferometer, we consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 R. A. Niyazov , D. N. Aristov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

A `toy model' - aimed at capturing the essential physics - is presented that jointly describes spin-polarized hot electron transport and spin pumping driven by local heating. These two processes both contribute to spin-current generation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Maarten Beens , Koen de Mare , Rembert Duine , Bert Koopmans

A normally incident light of linear polarization injects a pure spin current in a strip of 2-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. We report observation of an electric current with a butterfly-like pattern induced by such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 Xiao-Dong Cui , Shun-Qing Shen , Jian Li , Weikun Ge , Fu-Chun Zhang

Theoretical calculations predict the dissipationless circulating current induced by a spin defect in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. The shape and spatial extent of these dissipationless circulating currents depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Adonai R. da Cruz , Michael E. Flatté

We propose a spin transport induced by inertial motion. Our system is composed of two host media and a narrow vacuum gap in between. One of the hosts is sliding at a constant speed relative to the other. This mechanical motion causes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

We investigate tunneling between two spinful Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (TLLs) realized, e.g., as two crossed nanowires or quantum Hall edge states. When injecting into each TLL one electron of opposite spin, the dc current measured after…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Alexander Schroer , Bernd Braunecker , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Patrik Recher

We study theoretically interaction between electrons in a quantum ring embedded in a microcavity and vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic field in the cavity. It is shown that the vacuum fluctuations can split electron states of the ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 O. V. Kibis , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We study the tunneling current through a mesoscopic two-terminal ring with spin-orbit coupling, which is threaded by a magnetic flux. The electron-electron interaction in the ring is described in terms of a Tomonaga-Luttinger model which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev , N. Pauget

We investigate theoretically the nonequilibrium finite-frequency current noise in a four-terminal quantum point contact of interacting helical edge states at a finite bias voltage. Special focus is put on the effects of the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-17 Yu-Wen Lee , Yu-Li Lee , Chung-Hou Chung

We study the quantum spin pumping of an antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain with competing exchange interactions. We show that spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum spin pump. In our model system, an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Sujit Sarkar , C. D. Hu

We report on the observation of a helical Luttinger-liquid in the edge of InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulator, which shows characteristic suppression of conductance at low temperature and low bias voltage. Moreover, the conductance shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Tingxin Li , Pengjie Wang , Hailong Fu , Lingjie Du , Kate A. Schreiber , Xiaoyang Mu , Xiaoxue Liu , Gerard Sullivan , Gábor A. Csáthy , Xi Lin , Rui-Rui Du

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

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

A powerful method of manipulating the dynamics of quantum coherent particles is to control the phase of their tunneling. We consider a system of two electrons hopping on a quasi one-dimensional lattice in the presence of a uniform magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

We study the quantized charge pumping of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) with edge-corner correspondences based on the combination of the rotation of in-plane magnetic field and the quantum spin Hall effect. A picture of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Bing-Lan Wu , Ai-Min Guo , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

The behavior of the dc-component of the current along a quantum loop of tight-binding electrons threaded by a magnetic flux that varies linearly in time Phi_M(t)= Phi t is investigated. We analize the electron transport in different kinds…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Liliana Arrachea

An extension of Drude model is proposed that accounts for spin and spin-orbit interaction of charge carriers. Spin currents appear due to combined action of the external electric field, crystal field and scattering of charge carriers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We study the time-dependent transport of charge and spin through a ring-shaped region sequentially coupled to a weakly interacting quantum dot in the presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux and spin-orbit interaction. The time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 F. Romeo , R. Citro , M. Marinaro