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The lateral current-induced spin polarization in InGaN/GaN superlattices (SLs) without an applied magnetic field is reported. The fact that the sign of the nonequilibrium spin changes as the current reverses and is opposite for the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Chang , T. W. Chen , J. W. Chen , W. C. Hong , W. C. Tsai , Y. F. Chen , G. Y. Guo

The real part of the conductance of a 1D conducting ring with magnetic properties that vary along the conductor is examined. The possibility of exciting a new type of spin polarization oscillations in the ring with an external emf is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 P. V. Pyshkin

We find that in order to completely describe the spin transport, apart from spin current (or linear spin current), one has to introduce the angular spin current. The two spin currents respectively describe the translational and rotational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We present a theoretical analysis of a spin-dependent multicomponent condensate in two dimensions. The case of a condensate of resonantly photoexcited excitons having two different spin orientations is studied in detail. The energy and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor

We introduce a previously unknown spin-related transport phenomenon, consisting in a transformation (swapping) of spin currents, in which the spin direction and the direction of flow are interchanged. Swapping is due to the spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-26 Maria B. Lifshits , Michel I. Dyakonov

The kinetics of conduction electrons interacting with the field of sound waves in a constant magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the longitudinal sound wave propagation occurs transverse spin conductivity, which has a resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 I. I. Lyapilin

We observe cavity mediated spin-dependent interactions in an off-resonantly driven multi-level atomic Bose-Einstein condensate that is strongly coupled to an optical cavity. Applying a driving field with adjustable polarization, we identify…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-25 M. Landini , N. Dogra , K. Kroeger , L. Hruby , T. Donner , T. Esslinger

The current-induced spin polarization and momentum-dependent spin-orbit field were measured in In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As epilayers with varying indium concentrations and silicon doping densities. Samples with higher indium concentrations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Luengo-Kovac , S. Huang , D. Del Gaudio , J. Occena , R. S. Goldman , R. Raimondi , V. Sih

Traditional spintronics relies on spin transport by charge carriers, such as electrons in semiconductor crystals. This brings several complications: the Pauli principle prevents the carriers from moving with the same speed; Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. V. Kavokin , M. Vladimirova , B. Jouault , T. C. H. Liew , J. R. Leonard , L. V. Butov

Spin Hall effects interconvert spin- and charge currents due to spin-orbit interaction, which enables convenient electrical generation and detection of diffusive spin currents and even collective spin excitations in magnetic solids. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , Axel Hoffmann

We show that spin-dependent electron-phonon interaction in the energy relaxation of a two-dimensional electron gas results in equal and oppositely directed currents in the spin-up and spin-down subbands yielding a pure spin current. In our…

The exciton spin dynamics are investigated both experimentally and theoretically in two-monolayer-thick GaAs/AlAs quantum wells with an indirect band gap and a type-II band alignment. The magnetic-field-induced circular polarization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 T. S. Shamirzaev , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , J. Debus , A. Yu. Gornov , M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , M. Bayer

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

We study the dynamics of entanglement in spin gases. A spin gas consists of a (large) number of interacting particles whose random motion is described classically while their internal degrees of freedom are described quantum-mechanically.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Calsamiglia , L. Hartmann , W. Dür , H. -J. Briegel

We investigate exciton-polariton condensation under magnetic field in a single high-quality semiconductor micropillar cavity. We observe successive polariton condensation of each spin component for two distinct threshold powers. Pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 C. Sturm , D. Solnyshkov , O. Krebs , A. Lemaître , I. Sagnes , E. Galopin , A. Amo , G. Malpuech , J. Bloch

The dynamic coupling between spin and charge currents in non-magnetic conductors is considered. As a consequence of this coupling, the spin dynamics is directly reflected in the electrical impedance of the sample, with a relevant frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. S. Alekseev , M. I. Dyakonov

We have studied transport properties in a two-dimensional electron gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under a perpendicular magnetic field. By employing the exact solution for this system, we found resonant charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Degang Zhang , Yao-Ming Mu , C. S. Ting

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

Spin-currents and non-abelian gauge potentials in electronic systems can be treated by spin-current-density functional theory, whose main input is the exchange-correlation (xc) energy expressed as a functional of spin-currents. Constructing…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-30 Saeed H. Abedinpour , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

We observe a spontaneous parity breaking bifurcation to a ferromagnetic state in a spatially trapped exciton-polariton condensate. At a critical bifurcation density under nonresonant excitation, the whole condensate spontaneously magnetizes…