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High degree of electron spin polarization is of crucial importance in operation of spintronic devices. We study the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two n-type semiconductor regions with different doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

We investigate a spin-electricity conversion effect in a topological insulator/ferromagnet heterostructure. In the spin-momentum-locked surface state, an electric current generates nonequilibrium spin accumulation, which causes a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kentaro Nomura

Further development of the field of all-electric spintronics requires the successful integration of spin transport channels with spin injector/generator elements. While with the advent of graphene and related 2D materials high performance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Kristina Vaklinova , Alexander Hoyer , Marko Burghard , Klaus Kern

Spin pumping is an interfacial spin current generation from the ferromagnetic layer to the non-magnetic metal at its interface. The polarization of the pumped spin current $\textbf{J}_s \propto \textbf{m}\times \dot{\textbf{m}}$ depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Adam B. Cahaya

We study the nonlinear thermoelectric cooling performance of a quantum spin Hall system. The setup consists of a nanomagnet contacting a Kramers' pair of helical edge states, resulting in a transmission probability with a rich structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Fatemeh Hajiloo , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Nastaran Dashti , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We study the influence of spin waves on transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations. Side peaks appear in the differential conductance due to emission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Anatoli Kadigrobov

Superconducting spintronics explores the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism, sparking significant interest in nonunitary superconductors as a platform for novel magneto-superconducting phenomena. However, identifying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-10 Taiki Matsushita , Takeshi Mizushima , Yusuke Masaki , Satoshi Fujimoto , Ilya Vekhter

A prerequisite to using the net spin polarization generated by a source-drain bias in three-dimensional topological insulators for spintronic applications, is understanding how such a bias alters the transport properties of these materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sofie Kölling , Daan H. Wielens , İnanç Adagideli , Alexander Brinkman

A quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction can work as an efficient spin filter if it is connected to N (> 2) external leads via tunnel barriers. When an unpolarized current is injected to a quantum dot from a lead, polarized currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

We show that the tunable hybridization between two lateral quantum dots connected to non-magnetic current leads in a `hanging-dot' configuration that can be used to implement a bipolar spin filter. The competition between Zeeman, exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Mireles , E. Cota , F. Rojas , S. E. Ulloa

Spincaloritronic signal generation due to thermal spin injection and spin transport is demonstrated in a non-degenerate Si spin valve. The spin-dependent Seebeck effect is used for the spincaloritronic signal generation, and the thermal…

Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using conventional superconducting contacts, yet this has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Sol Jacobsen , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

We study superfluidlike spin transport facilitated by thermal diffusion of magnetic domain walls, where the positive and negative chiralities of domain walls act as opposite topological charges. The topological charge conservation leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Alexey A. Kovalev , Bo Li , Edward Schwartz

Using wave function matching approach and employing the Landauer-Buttiker formula a ferromagnetic graphene junction with a temperature gradient across the system, is studied. We calculate the thermally induced charge and spin current as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Javad Vahedi , Fattaneh Barimani

We analyze cotunneling transport through two quantum dots in series weakly coupled to external ferromagnetic leads. In the Coulomb blockade regime the electric current flows due to third-order tunneling, while the second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Zainab Gholami , Farhad Khoeini

In several situations of interest, spin polarization may be generated far from the boundaries of a sample by nonlinear effects of an electric current, even when such a generation is forbidden by symmetry in the linear regime. We present an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-02 Ilya G. Finkler , Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We theoretically investigate spin transport at the interface between the ferromagnetic insulator(FI) and a superconductor(SC). Considering a simple FI-SC interface model, we derive formulas for the spin current and spin-current noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. Kato , Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin