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Using the nascent concept of quantum spin-transfer torque [A. Zholud et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 119}, 257201 (2017); M. D. Petrovi\'{c} {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. X {\bf 11}, 021062 (2021)], we demonstrate that a current pulse can be…

We theoretically investigate the effect of transverse magnetic anisotropy on spin-flip assisted tunneling through atomic spin chains. Using a phenomenological approach and first-order perturbation theory, we analytically calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 J. Hageman , M. Blaauboer

Spin-valve is a microelectronic device in which high and low resistance states are realized by utilizing both charge and spin of carriers. Spin-valve structures used in modern hard drive read-heads and magnetic random access memories…

We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

Transport through molecular magnets is studied in the regime of strong coupling to the leads. We consider a resonant-tunneling model where the electron spin in a quantum dot or molecule is coupled to an additional local, anisotropic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Florian Elste , Carsten Timm

We review a unified approach for computing: (i) spin-transfer torque in magnetic trilayers like spin-valves and magnetic tunnel junction, where injected charge current flows perpendicularly to interfaces; and (ii) spin-orbit torque in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kapildeb Dolui , Marko Petrović , Petr Plecháč , Troels Markussen , Kurt Stokbro

Motivated by the experimental evidence of the Nagaoka ferromagnetism in quantum dot systems by Dehollain et al [1], we search for possible confirmation of such kind of ferromagnetism by analyzing the spin-resolved transport properties of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Trocha , Emil Siuda , Ireneusz Weymann

The excitation of the spin degrees of freedom of an adsorbed atom by tunneling electrons is computed using a strong coupling theory. The excitation process is shown to be a sudden switch between the initial state determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Nicolás Lorente Jean-Pierre Gauyacq

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

We study the boundary phase diagram and the low-temperature heat and magnetization transport at a $Y$-junction of XX spin chains. Depending on the magnetization axis anisotropy between the magnetic exchange interactions at the junction, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 Domenico Giuliano , Francesco Buccheri

Using first principles methods we explore the anisotropy of the spin relaxation and transverse transport properties in bulk metals with respect to the direction of the spin quantization axis in paramagnets or of the spontaneous…

The studies of this paper on the spin-1/2 XXZ chain at finite temperatures T>0 have two complementary goals. The first is to identify the spin carriers of all its Sq>0 energy eigenstates and to show that their spin elementary currents fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Jose M. P. Carmelo , Pedro D. Sacramento

It is a common perception that the transport of a spin current in polycrystalline metal is isotropic and independent of the polarization direction, even though spin current is a tensorlike quantity and its polarization direction is a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Chao Zhou , Fatih Kandaz , Yunjiao Cai , Chuan Qin , Mengwen Jia , Zhe Yuan , Yizheng Wu , Yi Ji

We develop a microscopic theory of tunneling spin transport at the magnetic interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a ferromagnetic superconductor (FSC) driven by ferromagnetic resonance. We show that the spin susceptibilities of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-31 Hiroshi Funaki , Ai Yamakage , Mamoru Matsuo

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The search for superconducting systems exhibiting nonreciprocal transport and, specifically, the diode effect, has proliferated in recent years. This trend encompasses a wide variety of systems, including planar hybrid structures,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , Sebastian Bergeret

The altermagnet exhibits the nonrelativistic spin splitting that enables all-electrical generation of spin-polarized currents beyond the spin-orbit coupling. Here, we report on a study on the anisotropic spin-polarized conductivity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 Mingbo Dou , Xianjie Wang , L. L. Tao

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

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

We show that pure spin injection from a magnetic electrode into an inversion symmetry-broken system composed of a tunnel barrier and a metallic region generates a transverse charge current. Such a tunnelling spin galvanic conversion is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Geneviève Fleury , Michael Barth , Cosimo Gorini