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Using irreversible thermodynamics we show that current-induced spin transfer torque within a magnetic domain implies spin pumping of current within that domain. This has experimental implications for samples both with conducting leads and…

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The electric control of quantum spin chains has been an outstanding goal for the few last years due to its potential use in technologies related to quantum information processing. In this work, we show the feasibility of the different steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Diego Acosta Coden , Omar Osenda , Alejandro Ferrón

We demonstrate electrical magnetization switching and spin pumping in magnetically doped Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, known to have nontrivial coupling between the charge and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Reversing the magnetization of a ferromagnet by spin transfer from a current, rather than by applying a magnetic field, is the central idea of an extensive current research. After a review of our experiments of current-induced magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fert , V. Cros , J. -M. George , J. Grollier , H. Jaffres , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , G. Faini , J. Ben Youssef , H. Le Gall

Conventional spin pumping, driven by magnetization dynamics, is longitudinal since the pumped spin current flows normal to the interface between the ferromagnet and the conductor. We predict \textit{Hall-type/transverse} and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ping Li , Chengyuan Cai , Tao Yu

A mechanism is proposed for manipulating the magnetic state of a helical spin density wave using a current. In this paper, we show that a current through a bulk system with a helical spin density wave induces a spin transfer torque, giving…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Ola Wessely , Bjorn Skubic , Lars Nordstrom

We study theoretically the effect of a rotating electric field on a diffusive nanowire and find an effect that is analogous to spin pumping, which refers to the generation of spin through a rotating magnetic field. The electron spin couples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Quantum battery is one of the most prominent micro-devices in the rapid-developing quantum thermodynamics. We propose a quantum charging protocol in which both battery and charger are consisted of a many-spin system. The battery and charger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Shi-fan Qi , Jun Jing

The conduction band electron states of laterally-coupled semiconductor quantum rings are studied within the frame of the effective mass envelope function theory. We consider the effect of axial and in-plane magnetic fields for several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Planelles , F. Rajadell , J. I. Climente , M. Royo , J. L. Movilla

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

A persistent current qubit has two quantum states with opposite currents flowing in a superconducting loop. Their magnetic field couple to nuclear spins. The qubit state is not only perturbed by the spins but it also gets entangled with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

Flexible ferromagnetic rings are spin-chain magnets, in which the magnetic and mechanical subsystems are coupled. The coupling is achieved through the tangentially oriented anisotropy axis. The possibility to operate the mechanics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Yuri Gaididei , Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Denis D. Sheka , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Avadh Saxena

We investigate the transfer of genuine multipartite entanglement across a spin-1/2 chain with nearest-neighbor XX-type interaction. We focus on the perturbative regime, where a block of spins is weakly coupled at each edge of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Tony J. G. Apollaro , Claudio Sanavio , Wayne Jordan Chetcuti , Salvatore Lorenzo

In metallic ferromagnets, the spin-transfer torque and spin-motive force are known to exhibit a reciprocal relationship. Recent experiments on ferromagnets with strong spin-orbit coupling have revealed a rich complexity in the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

In order to understand the orbital and spin magnetization of a confined electronic system we analyze these ground state properties in the transition from a quantum dot to a quantum ring of finite thickness. The Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Vasile , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

A simple tight-binding theoretical model is proposed for spin dependent, current-in-plane transport in highly coherent spin valve structures under specularity conditions. Using quantum-mechanically coherent and spatially quantized Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Teixeira , J. Ventura , Yu. G. Pogorelov , J. B. Sousa

Flexible control of magnetization switching by electrical manners is crucial for applications of spin-orbitronics. Besides of a switching current that is parallel to an applied field, a bias current that is normal to the switching current…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-30 X. Zhang , C. H. Wan , Z. H. Yuan , Q. T. Zhang , H. Wu , L. Huang , W. J. Kong , C. Fang , U. Khan , X. F. Han

Versatile methods for the manipulation of individual quantum systems, such as confined particles, have become central elements in current developments in precision spectroscopy, frequency standards, quantum information processing, quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Manuel Vogel , Gerhard Birkl , Wolfgang Quint , David von Lindenfels , Marco Wiesel

We investigate the transport through a quantum ring, a dot and a barrier embedded in a nanowire in a homogeneous perpendicular magnetic field. To be able to treat scattering potentials of finite extent in magnetic field we use a mixed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vidar Gudmundsson , Yu-Yu Lin , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Jens Hjorleifur Bardarson , Andrei Manolescu