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It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We study the transport properties of a hybrid junction made of a ferromagnetic lead in electrical connection with the helical edge modes of a two-dimensional topological insulator. In this system, the time reversal symmetry, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Francesco Romeo

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

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

We study thermoelectric transport through double quantum dots system with spin-dependent interdot coupling and ferromagnetic electrodes by means of the non-equilibrium Green function in the linear response regime. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Qiang Wang , Haiqing Xie , Hujun Jiao , Zhi-Jian Li , Yi-Hang Nie

We discuss transport through an interferometer formed by helical edge states of the quantum spin Hall insulator. Focusing on effects induced by a strong magnetic impurity placed in one of the arms of interferometer, we consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 R. A. Niyazov , D. N. Aristov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for an uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3, characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c-axis. We have found that temperature gradient applied normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 S. Seki , T. Ideue , M. Kubota , Y. Kozuka , R. Takagi , M. Nakamura , Y. Kaneko , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We show that electron tunneling from edge states in two-dimensional topological insulator into a parallel electron waveguide leads to the appearance of spin-polarized current in the waveguide. The spin polarization $P$ can be very close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov

We examine electron transport through semiconductor quantum dot subject to a continuous circularly polarized optical irradiation resonant to the electron - heavy hole transition. Electrons having certain spin polarization experience Rabi…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Yu. Smirnov , L. G. Mourokh

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

An electric current from a ferromagnet into a non-magnetic material can induce a spin-dependent electron temperature. Here it is shown that this spin heat accumulation, when created by tunneling from a ferromagnet, produces a non-negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees , R. Jansen

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

We investigate thermoelectric effects in quantum well systems. Using the scattering approach for coherent conductors, we calculate the thermocurrent and thermopower both in the spin-degenerate case and in the presence of giant Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Javier H. Nicolau , David Sanchez

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We consider a spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron system under the influence of a thermal gradient externally applied to two attached reservoirs. We discuss the generated voltage bias (charge Seebeck effect), spin bias (spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 M. I. Alomar , Llorenç Serra , David Sanchez

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the localized spin in the center and electrons in metallic leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Jie Ren , Jonas Fransson , Jian-Xin Zhu

The abilities to inject and detect spin carriers are fundamental for research on transport and manipulation of spin information. Pure electronic spin currents have been recently studied in nanoscale electronic devices using a non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees