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We experimentally investigate frequency-selective spin wave (SW) transmission in a micrometre-scale, ring-shaped magnonic resonator integrated with a linear Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) stripe. Using super-Nyquist-sampling magneto-optical Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Franz Vilsmeier , Takuya Taniguchi , Michael Lindner , Christian Riedel , Christian Back

We present a systematic study of the proton spin structure in terms of measurable parton distributions. For a transversely-polarizedproton, we derive a polarization sum rule from the leading generalized parton distributions appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-18 Xiangdong Ji , Xiaonu Xiong , Feng Yuan

In this work, we explore the potential of spin-based integrated devices using polariton waveguides that form codirectional couplers. For suitable coupler parameters, a transfer of condensates between the arms of the coupler, occurs leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Elena Rozas , Alexey Yulin , Sebastian Klembt , Sven Höfling , María Dolores Martín , Luis Viña

The edge diffraction of a homogeneously polarized light beam is studied theoretically based on the paraxial optics and Fresnel-Kirchhoff approximation, and the dependence of the diffracted beam pattern of the incident beam polarization is…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Aleksandr Ya. Bekshaev

Polarization, the precession direction with respect to the background magnetization, is an intrinsic degree of freedom of spin wave. Introducing symmetry breaking mechanisms lies in the heart of lifting the degeneracy between polarized spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongbin Wu , Jin Lan

Many recent papers report on the interest of spin waves for applications. This paper revisits the propagating spin wave spectroscopy when using inductive transceivers connected to a network analyzer. The spin wave conduit can be made of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Thibaut Devolder

It is shown that the frequency distribution of the degree of circular polarisation for a homogeneous source is sensitive to the properties of the synchrotron emitting plasma. Most of the circular polarisation comes from the region around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Claes-I. Bjornsson

The optical spin-Hall effect results in the formation of an antisymmetric real space polarization pattern forming spin currents. In this paper, we show that the exciton-polariton parametric scattering allows us to reverse the sign of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 H. Flayac , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech , I. A. Shelykh

We calculate the dynamical fluctuation spectrum of electronic spins in a semiconductor under a steady-state illumination by light containing polarization squeezing correlations. Taking into account quasi-particle lifetime and spin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eran Ginossar , Yehoshua Levinson , Shimon Levit

We study the evolution and distribution of non-equilibrium electron spin polarization in n-type semiconductors within the two-component drift-diffusion model in an applied electric field. Propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

The behavior of spin diffusion in doped semiconductors is shown to be qualitatively different than in undoped (intrinsic) ones. Whereas a spin packet in an intrinsic semiconductor must be a multiple-band disturbance, involving inhomogeneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael E. Flatte , Jeff M. Byers

Quasi-one-dimensional hole gas is achievable in a semiconductor Ge nanowire. The lowest two subband dispersions of the hole gas are just two shifted parabolic curves with an anticrossing at $k_{z}=0$. This peculiar low-energy subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Rui Li

Exchange processes are responsible for the stability of elementary boson condensates with respect to their possible fragmentation. This remains true for composite bosons when single fermion exchanges are included but spin degrees of freedom…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-11 M. Combescot , R. Combescot , M. Alloing , F. Dubin

We present a theory of spin waves in a non-condensed gas of spin-1 bosons: providing both analytic calculations of the linear theory, and full numerical simulations of the nonlinear response. We highlight the role of spin-dependent contact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-06 Stefan S. Natu , Erich J. Mueller

Nonlinear light propagation in a single-mode micron-size waveguide made of semiconducting excitonic material has been theoretically studied in terms of exciton-polaritons by using an analysis based on macroscopic fields. When a light pulse…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-24 Oleksii A. Smyrnov , Fabio Biancalana , Stefan Malzer

We propose an alternative micromagnetic approach to determine the spin wave dispersion relations in magnonic structures. Characteristic of the method is that a limited area of the system is continuously excited with a spatially uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Ben Van de Wiele , Federico Montoncello

We show the full control of the polarization dynamics of a propagating exciton-polariton condensate in a planar microcavity by using a magnetic field applied in the Voigt geometry. The change of the spin-beat frequency, the suppression of…

Optically generated exciton-polaritons in cylindric semiconductor pillar microcavity with embedded GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells demonstrate a clear polariton lasing regime. When exciting in the center of the pillar we detect a ring-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 V. K. Kalevich , M. M. Afanasiev , V. A. Lukoshkin , K. V. Kavokin , S. I. Tsintzos , P. G. Savvidis , A. V. Kavokin

A quantum theory of the spin-dependent scattering of semiconductor electrons by a Schottky barrier at an interface with a ferromagnet is presented. The reflection of unpolarized non-equilibrium carriers produces spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

Semiconductor microcavities offer a unique system to investigate the physics of weakly interacting bosons. Their elementary excitations, polaritons--a mixture of excitons and photons--behave, in the low density limit, as bosons that can…