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We show that the initialization of an ensemble of electrons in the same spin state in strained n-InGaAs subject to a perpendicular magnetic field triggers an AC electric current at GHz frequencies. The AC current emerges in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 I. Stepanov , M. Ersfeld , A. V. Poshakinskiy , M. Lepsa , E. L. Ivchenko , S. A. Tarasenko , B. Beschoten

Generating and characterizing uniform and staggered spin polarization in antiferromagnets is one of the key challenges for antiferromagnetic spintronic technology. Here, we perform perturbative theory, group-theoretical symmetry analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

Electrically generated spin polarization is probed directly in bulk GaN using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. A series of n-type GaN epilayers are grown in the wurtzite phase both by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. F. Koehl , M. H. Wong , C. Poblenz , B. Swenson , U. K. Mishra , J. S. Speck , D. D. Awschalom

Generating a nonequilibrium spin polarization with a driving force has been first realized by the electric current in a system with broken inversion symmetry and extended to that induced by the thermal current and that appearing in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Yuta Suzuki , Yuma Kitagawa , Shin-ichiro Tezuka , Hiroshi Akera

Spin rotations induced by an AC electric field in a two-electron double quantum dot are studied by an exact numerical solution of the time dependent Schroedinger equation in the context of recent electric dipole spin resonance experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

Using optical pulses of variable duration up to 80 ps, we report on spin coherence initialization and its subsequent detection in n-type singly-charged quantum dots, subject to a transverse magnetic field, by pump-probe techniques. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 S. Spatzek , S. Varwig , M. M. Glazov , I. A. Yugova , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer

We propose a simple way of evaluating the bulk spin generation of an arbitrary crystal with a known band structure in the strong spin-orbit coupling limit. We show that, in the presence of an electric field, there exists an intrinsic torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitrie Culcer , Yugui Yao , Allan MacDonald , Qian Niu

A method is presented to calculate the spin relaxation times T1, T2 due to a non-uniform magnetic field, and the linear-in-electric-field precession frequency shift {\delta}{\omega}E when an electric field is present, in the diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Steven M. Clayton

We show that the spins of all electrons, each confined in a quantum dot of an (In,Ga)As/GaAs dot ensemble, can be driven into a single mode of precession about a magnetic field. This regime is achieved by allowing only a single mode within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Greilich , S. Spatzek , I. A. Yugova , I. A. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , Al. L. Efros , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , 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 find that photoexcited electrons in an n-GaAs epilayer rapidly (< 50 ps) spin-polarize due to the proximity of an epitaxial ferromagnetic metal. Comparison between MnAs/GaAs and Fe/GaAs structures reveals that this coherent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Epstein , I. Malajovich , R. K. Kawakami , Y. Chye , M. Hanson , P. M. Petroff , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Time-resolved optical measurements of electron-spin dynamics in a (110) GaAs quantum well are used to study the consequences of a strongly anisotropic electron g-tensor, and the origin of previously discovered all-optical nuclear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Salis , D. D. Awschalom , Y. Ohno , H. Ohno

Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve several one-dimensional models of tunneling electrons and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 S. Varela , M. Peralta , V. Mujica , B. Berche , E. Medina

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

We evaluate the charge and longitudinal spin response functions of a two-dimensional electron gas with $e^2/r$ interactions in an arbitrary state of spin polarization, using a structurally self-consistent approach to treat exchange and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

We investigate the coherent exciton spin dynamics in a single InAlAs/AlGaAs quantum dot using time-resolved quantum state tomography. Under two-LO-phonon quasi-resonant excitation of neutral exciton, we observe pronounced quantum beats in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 J. Njala , Y. Yamamoto , R. Kaji , S. Adachi , H. Sasakura

At each of the boundaries of the two-dimensional (2D) rectangular conductor parallel to the electric current there arises a stripe with an electric field transverse to the current and a 100% electron spin polarization. The two stripes have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

We explore the fundamental time limit of ultra fast spin torque induced magnetization reversal of a magnetic memory cell. Spin torque precession during a spin torque current pulse and free precessional magnetization ringing after spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Serrano-Guisan , K. Rott , G. Reiss , J. Langer , B. Ocker , H. W. Schumacher

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Using the wave nature of the electrons, we demonstrate that a transverse spin current can be generated simply by the diffraction through a single slit in the spin-orbital coupling system of the two-dimensional electron gas. The diffracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Chyh-Hong Chern , Cheng-Ju Lin