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The Kitaev model exhibits a canonical quantum spin liquid as a ground state and hosts two fractional quasiparticles, itinerant Majorana fermion and localized flux excitation. The former can carry heat and spin modulations in the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-27 Joji Nasu , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga

Quantum spin liquids may be considered "quantum disordered" ground states of spin systems, in which zero point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long range order. More interestingly, quantum spin liquids are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-21 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

We present experimental evidence that a heavy Fermi surface consisting of itinerant, charge-neutral spinons underpins both heavy-fermion-strange-metal (without f electrons) and quantum-spin-liquid states in the 4d-electron trimer lattice,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-31 Hengdi Zhao , Yu Zhang , Pedro Schlottmann , Rahul Nandkishore , Gang Cao

Boundary conditions are derived that determine the penetration of spin current through an interface of two non-collinear ferromagnets with an arbitrary angle between their magnetization vectors. We start from the well-known transformation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

We calculate the electron spectral function for a spin-liquid with a spinon Fermi surface and a Dirac spin-liquid. Calculations are based upon the slave-rotor mean-field theory. We consider the effect of gauge fluctuations using a simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-24 Evelyn Tang , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Patrick A. Lee

We demonstrate a remarkable property of metallic Fermi liquids: the transverse conductivity assumes a universal value in the quasi-static ($\omega \rightarrow 0$) limit for wavevectors $q$ in the regime $l_{\rm mfp}^{-1} \ll q \ll p_{\rm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Jun Yong Khoo , Falko Pientka , Inti Sodemann

Realistic model Hamiltonians for quantum spin liquids frequently exhibit a large separation of energy scales between their elementary excitations. At intermediate, experimentally relevant temperatures, some excitations are sparse and hop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-17 Oliver Hart , Yuan Wan , Claudio Castelnovo

Interacting spins in quantum magnet can cooperate and exhibit exotic states like the quantum spin liquid. To explore the materialization of such intriguing states, the determination of effective spin Hamiltonian of the quantum magnet is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Sizhuo Yu , Yuan Gao , Bin-Bin Chen , Wei Li

We revisit Stoner instability, an old problem but in a modern point of view. An idea is to extract out dynamics of directional fluctuations of spins explicitly, resorting to the CP$^{1}$ representation and integrating over their amplitude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-18 Ki-Seok Kim

We characterize paramagnetic Mott insulators by their response to static, non-magnetic impurities. States with spinon deconfinement (or spin-charge separation) are distinguished from those with spinon confinement by distinct impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev , Matthias Vojta

We analyze the current and the shot-noise of an electron interferometer made of the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator within the framework of non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism. We study in detail…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Bruno Rizzo , Liliana Arrachea , Michael Moskalets

We report the existence of regimes of the two dimensional Fermi liquid that show unusual conservation of the spin current and may be tuned by varying some parameter like the density of fermions. We show that for reasonable models of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Paulo F. Farinas , Kevin S. Bedell , Nelson Studart

We investigate transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to noncollinearly magnetized ferromagnets in the presence of localized spins in either the tunnel barrier or on the quantum dot. For a spin embedded in the tunnel barrier,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König

An emerging paradigm in modern electronics is that of CMOS + $\sf X$ requiring the integration of standard CMOS technology with novel materials and technologies denoted by $\sf X$. In this context, a crucial challenge is to develop accurate…

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

In Maxwellian electrodynamics, specific properties of the responses to external fields are included in constitutive equations. For noncentrosymmetric semiconductors, spin conductivity can be expressed in terms of the contribution of…

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

Detection and manipulation of electrons' spins are key prerequisites for spin-based electronics or spintronics. This is usually achieved by contacting ferromagnets with metals or semiconductors, in which the relaxation of spins due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Y. Shiomi , K. Nomura , Y. Kajiwara , K. Eto , M. Novak , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando , E. Saitoh

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

We theoretically study the spin current between two polarized Fermi gases with repulsive interactions near the itinerant ferromagnetic phase transition. We consider a two-terminal model where the left reservoir is fixed to be fully…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-16 Tingyu Zhang , Daigo Oue , Hiroyuki Tajima , Mamoru Matsuo , Haozhao Liang