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We in this paper study theoretically the spin-polarized quantum transport through a T-shape quantum dot-array by means of transfer-matrix method along with the Green^{,}s function technique. Multi-magnetic fields are used to produce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rui Wang , J. -Q. Liang

We argue that the process of constructing the quantum mechanical current of the Pauli equation by copying the line of arguments used in the spin-0 case, i.e. the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, is ambiguous. We show that a non-relativistic…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-31 Marek Nowakowski

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Rodrigo Turcati , Carlos Andres Bonilla Quintero , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Enrique Arias

We report a study of spin dependent transport in a system composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal lead and a ferromagnetic lead (NM-QD-FM). We use the master equation approach to calculate the spin-resolved currents in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Souza , J. C. Egues , A. P. Jauho

Using a microscopic theory based on the density matrix formalism we investigate quantum revivals and collapses of the charge polarization and charge current dynamics in mesoscopic rings driven by short asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Moskalenko , A. Matos-Abiague , J. Berakdar

We propose a method to dynamically generate and control the flow of spin-entangled electrons, each belonging to a spin-singlet, by means of adiabatic quantum pumping. The pumping cycle functions by periodic time variation of localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kunal K. Das , Sungjun Kim , Ari Mizel

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

In a recent remarkable experiment [P. Roushan et al., Nature Physics 13, 146 (2017)], a spin current in an architecture of three superconducting qubits was produced during a few microseconds by creating synthetic magnetic fields. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Manas Kulkarni , Sven M. Hein , Eliot Kapit , Camille Aron

We propose a time-reversal-even spin generation in second order of electric fields, which dominates the current induced spin polarization in a wide class of centrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and leads to a novel nonlinear spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Cong Xiao , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaolong Feng , Huiying Liu , Guang-Yu Guo , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate spin-dependent conductance through a quantum Aharonov-Bohm ring containing localized electrons which interact with the propagating flow of electrons via exchange interaction of the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic type. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 I. G. Savenko , R. G. Polozkov , I. A. Shelykh

The quantized current generated by a quantum dot pump is calculated numerically. The numerical simulation is done by dividing the time varying potential into many static potentials with a short time interval and calculating the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Ye-Hwan Ahn , Yunchul Chung

The Aharonov-Casher (AC) oscillations of spin current through a 2D ballistic ring in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction and external magnetic field has been calculated using the semiclassical path integral method. For classically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-21 V. V. Shlyapin , A. G. Mal'shukov

We calculate current, spin current and tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) for a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in the presence of a square wave of bias voltage. Our results are obtained via time-dependent nonequilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. M. Souza , J. A. Gomez

We demonstrate spin pumping, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current by precessing magnetization, without application of microwave radiation commonly used in spin pumping experiments. We use femtosecond laser pulses to simultaneously…

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

The quantum oscillations in magnetic field of the critical current of asymmetric superconducting rings with different widths of the half-rings are shifted to opposite sides for measurement in the opposite direction. The value of this shift…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 V. L. Gurtovoi , M. Exarchos , R. Shaikhaidarov , V. N. Antonov , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

We consider the energy stored in a one-dimensional ballistic ring with a barrier subject to a linearly time-dependent magnetic flux. An exact analytic solution for the quantum dynamics of electrons in the ring is found for the case when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Gorelik , S. Kulinich , Yu. Galperin , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We discuss the possibility to generate, manipulate, and probe single spins in single-level quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The spin-polarized currents flowing between dot and leads lead to a non-equilibrium spin accumulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith