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We report on the injection of quantized pure spin current into quantum conductors. In particular, we propose an on demand single spin source generated by periodically varying the gate voltages of two quantum dots that are connected to a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Yanxia Xing , Zhong-liu Yang , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We consider theoretically a wide graphene ribbon, that on both ends is attached to electronic reservoirs which generally have different temperatures. The graphene ribbon is assumed to be deposited on a substrate, that leads to a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

Spin-momentum helical locking is one of the most important properties of the nontrivial topological surface states (TSS) in 3D topological insulators (TI). It underlies the iconic topological protection (suppressing elastic backscattering)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jifa Tian , Isaac Childres , Helin Cao , Shen Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

We analyze the spin transport through a finite-size one-dimensional interacting wire connected to noninteracting leads. By combining renormalization-group arguments with other analytic considerations such as the memory function technique…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-28 A. -M. Visuri , M. Lebrat , S. Häusler , L. Corman , T. Giamarchi

We present the theory of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect between a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain and a conductor. The effect consists of the generation of a spin current across the spin chain-conductor interface in response to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Ren-Bo Wang , Naveen Nishad , Anna Keselman , Leon Balents , Oleg A. Starykh

We show that an electric field applied to a strained topological Dirac semimetal, such as Na3Bi and Cd3As2, induces a spin Hall current that is quadratic in the electric field. By regarding the strain as an effective "axial magnetic field"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Yasufumi Araki

New efficient mechanism of obtaining spin polarization in_nonmagnetic_ semiconductors at arbitrary temperutures is described. The effect appears during tunneling of electrons from a nonmagnetic semiconductors (S) into ferromagnet (FM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Bratkovsky , V. V. Osipov

We study spin-dependent transport through a spin diode in the presence of spin-flip by means of reduced density matrix approach. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are computed and influence of spin-flip on the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

In a topological insulator (TI) the character of electron transport varies from insulating in the interior of the material to metallic near its surface. Unlike, however, ordinary metals, conducting surface states in TIs are topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

Spin polarization of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, induced by a thermo-current, is considered theoretically. It is shown that a temperature gradient gives rise to an in-plane spin polarization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 A. Dyrdał , M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

The Peltier coefficient describes the amount of heat that is carried by an electrical current when it passes through a material. Connecting two materials with different Peltier coefficients causes a net heat flow towards or away from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 J. Flipse , F. L. Bakker , A. Slachter , F. K. Dejene , B. J. van Wees

We show that a huge thermoelectric effect can be observed by contacting a superconductor whose density of states is spin-split by a Zeeman field with a ferromagnet with a non-zero polarization. The resulting thermopower exceeds $k_B/e$ by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-10 A. Ozaeta , P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , T. T. Heikkilä

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

We present a theoretical study of low temperature nonequilibrium transport through an interacting quantum dot in the presence of Zeeman magnetic field and current injection into one of its leads. By using a self-consistent renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Shaon Sahoo , Adeline Crépieux , Mireille Lavagna

We analyze heat and charge transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors at different temperatures to first order in the tunnel coupling. In order to describe the system theoretically, we extend a real-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Mathias Kamp , Björn Sothmann

We discuss the charge and the spin tunneling currents between two Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, where one density of states is spin-split. In the presence of a large temperature bias across the junction, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Thermoelectric transport of two-dimensional quantum spin Hall systems are theoretically studied in narrow ribbon geometry. We find that at high temperature electrons in the bulk states dominate. By lowering temperature, the "perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Ryuji Takahashi , Shuichi Murakami