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We show that the injection of a pure spin current (not accompanied by charge current) into a ring can induce a circulating charge current in the ring, provided that transport coefficients of the ring are spin-dependent and inhomogeneous. As…

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We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht

A quantum thermal device based on three nearest-neighbor coupled spin-1/2 systems controlled by the magnetic field is proposed. We systematically study the steady-state thermal behaviors of the system. When the two terminals of our system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Yi-jia Yang , Yu-qiang Liu , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu

We study charge and spin pumping in an interacting one-dimensional wire. We show that a spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum pump inducing a dc-current component at zero bias. The current generated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Citro , N. Andrei , Q. Niu

Recent fabrication of atomic precision nanodevices for spintronics greatly boosted their performance and also revealed new interesting features, as oscillating magnetoresistance with number of atomic layers in a multilayered structure. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 H. G. Silva , Y. G. Pogorelov

The interplay between spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom has led to the development of spintronic devices like spin-torque oscillators, spin-logic devices, and spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memories. In this…

We use a non-Markovian generalized master equation (GME) to describe the time-dependent charge transfer through a parabolically confined quantum wire of a finite length coupled to semi-infinite quasi two-dimensional leads. The quantum wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Cosmin Mihai Gainar , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the motion of a charged quantum particle, constrained on the surface of a cylinder, in the presence of a radial magnetic field. When the spin of the particle is neglected, the system essentially reduces to an infinite family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Chryssomalakos , A. Franco , A. Reyes-Coronado

A quantum pump device involving magnetic barriers produced by the deposition of ferro magnetic stripes on hetero-structure's is investigated. The device for dc- transport does not provide spin-polarized currents, but in the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronald Benjamin , Colin Benjamin

It has been recently suggested that the dynamics of a quantum spin system may provide a natural mechanism for transporting quantum information. We show that one dimensional rings of qubits with fixed (time-independent) interactions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias J. Osborne , Noah Linden

We demonstrate magnetization switching in out-of-plane magnetized Ta\CoFeB\MgO nanowires by current pulse injection along the nanowires, both with and without a constant and uniform magnetic field collinear to the current direction. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Lo Conte , A. Hrabec , A. P. Mihai , T. Schulz , S. -J. Noh , C. H. Marrows , T. A. Moore , M. Kläui

We investigate spin and charge current through a quantum dot pumped by a time-varying magnetic field. Using the density matrix method, quantum rate equations for the electronic occupation numbers in the quantum dot are obtained and solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhao Yang Zeng , Hong Li , Baowen Li

We analyze transport of magnetization in insulating systems described by a spin Hamiltonian. The magnetization current through a quasi one-dimensional magnetic wire of finite length suspended between two bulk magnets is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

Magnetically coupled hybrid quantum systems enable robust quantum state control through Landau-Zener transitions. Here, we show that an ultracold atomic sample coupled to a nanomechanical resonator via oscillating magnetic fields can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 A. Tretiakov , L. J. LeBlanc

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

Common models describing magnetotransport properties of periodically modulated two--dimensional systems often either directly start from a semiclassical approach or give results well conceivable within the semiclassical framework. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karel Vyborny , Ludvik Smrcka

We consider the generation of a pure spin-current at zero bias voltage with a single time-dependent potential. To such end we study a device made of a mesoscopic ring connected to electrodes and clarify the interplay between a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 J. P. Ramos , L. E. F. Foa Torres , P. A. Orellana , V. M. Apel

We explore electron transport in a thin cylinder, attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes, in the presence of both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fluxes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

We develop a quantum analog of the classical spin-torque model for current-driven magnetic dynamics. The current-driven magnetic excitation at finite field becomes significantly incoherent. This excitation is described by an effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin