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We report the first measurements of spin injection in to graphene through a 20 nm thick tungsten disulphide (WS$_2$) layer, along with a modified spin relaxation time ({\tau}s) in graphene in the WS$_2$ environment, via spin-valve and Hanle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

Spin relaxation in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, where filling is $\nu=1, 1/3, 1/5,...$, can be considered in terms of spin wave annihilation/creation processes. Hyperfine coupling with the nuclei of the GaAs matrix provides spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 S. Dickmann , T. Ziman

Inducing sizable spin--orbit interactions in graphene by proximity effect is establishing as a successful route to harnessing two-dimensional Dirac fermions for spintronics. Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira

We examine a modified drift-diffusion formalism to describe spin transport near an ultrathin magnet whose thickness is similar to or less than the spin dephasing length. Most of the previous theories on spin torque assume the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyoung-Whan Kim

Electrical control of spin transport is promising for achieving new device functionalities. Here we calculate the propagation of spin currents in a graphene-based spin-current demultiplexer under the effect of drift currents. We show that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 J. Ingla-Aynés , A A. Kaverzin , B. J. van Wees

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

We consider a mechanism of spin decay for an electron spin in a quantum dot due to coupling to a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) with and without an applied bias voltage. The coupling of spin to charge is induced by the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Massoud Borhani , Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

Kane and Mele predicted that in presence of spin-orbit interaction graphene realizes the quantum spin Hall state. However, exceptionally weak intrinsic spin-orbit splitting in graphene ($\approx 10^{-5}$ eV) inhibits experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Gabriel Autès , Oleg V. Yazyev

We study decoherence of an electron spin qubit in a quantum dot due to charge noise. We find that at the lowest order, the pure dephasing channel is suppressed for both $1/f$ charge noise and Johnson noise, so that charge noise leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

Graphene supported on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate offers a novel platform to study the spin transport in graphene in presence of a substrate induced spin-orbit coupling, while preserving its intrinsic charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

We review recent advances on the theory of spin qubits in nanostructures. We focus on four selected topics. First, we show how to form spin qubits in the new and promising material graphene. Afterwards, we discuss spin relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 B. Trauzettel , M. Borhani , M. Trif , D. Loss

A spin transport model is employed to study the effects of spin dephasing induced by diffusion-driven transit-time uncertainty through semiconductor spintronic devices where drift is the dominant transport mechanism. It is found that in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Ian Appelbaum

Organic and carbon-based materials are attractive for spintronics because their small spin-orbit coupling and low hyperfine interaction is expected to give rise to large spin-relaxation times. However, the corresponding spin-relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Banerjee , W. G. van der Wiel , R. Jansen

Spin Hall effects have surged as promising phenomena for spin logics operations without ferromagnets. However, the magnitude of the detected electric signals at room temperature in metallic systems has been so far underwhelming. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 W. Savero Torres , J. F. Sierra , L. A. Benítez , F. Bonell , M. V. Costache , S. O. Valenzuela

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

We study orbital and spin-orbit proximity effects in graphene adsorbed to the Cu(111) surface by means of density functional theory (DFT). The proximity effects are caused mainly by the hybridization of graphene $\pi$ and copper d orbitals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Tobias Frank , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Injection, transmission, and detection of spins in a conducting channel are the basic ingredients of spintronic devices. Long spin lifetimes during transit are an important ingredient in realizing this technology. An attractive platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Evan Sosenko , Huazhou Wei , Vivek Aji

We investigate relaxation and dephasing of an electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot and subject to spin-orbit coupling. Even in vanishing magnetic field, B = 0, slow noise coupling to the electron's orbital degree of freedom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Pablo San-Jose , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman , Gergely Zarand

Graphene is a model system for the study of electrons confined to a strictly two-dimensional layer1 and a large number of electronic phenomena have been demonstrated in graphene, from the fractional2, 3 quantum Hall effect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jian-Hao Chen , W. G. Cullen , E. D. Williams , M. S. Fuhrer