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Localized spins of single atoms adsorbed on surfaces have been proposed as building blocks for spintronics and quantum computation devices. However, identifying a way to achieve current-induced switching of spins with very low dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

We investigate the spin-current absorption induced by an inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling due to impurities in metals. We consider the system with spin currents driven by the electric field or the spin accumulation. The resulting diffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Kazuhiro Hosono , Takehito Yokoyama

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

We theoretically investigate the generation of spin current from a uniformly rotating body with impurity scattering on the basis of the spin dependent transport equation. The spin current is created mainly in the radial direction when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

The transmission of a dipole-dominated spin wave in a ferromagnetic film through a localised inhomogeneity in the form of a magnetic field produced by a dc current through a wire placed on the film surface was studied experimentally and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-05 M. P. Kostylev , A. A. Serga , T. Schneider , B. Leven , B. Hillebrands , R. L. Stamps

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

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We present a microscopic theory of coherent quantum transport through a superconducting film between two ferromagnetic electrodes. The scattering problem is solved for the general case of ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (FSF)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Milos Bozovic , Zoran Radovic

In general, conventional superconductivity should not occur in a ferromagnet, though it has been seen in iron under pressure. Moreover, theory predicts that the current is always carried by pairs of electrons in a spin singlet state, so…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 R. S. Keizer , S. T. B. Goennenwein , T. M. Klapwijk , G. Miao , G. Xiao , A. Gupta

We study the effects of spin-flip scatterings on the time-dependent transport properties through a magnetic quantum dot attached to normal and ferromagnetic leads. The transient spin-dynamics as well as the steady-state tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michele Cini

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

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

We predict a supercurrent-driven N\'eel spin-orbit torque in a superconductor/$d$-wave altermagnet heterostructure, associated with the emergence of spin-triplet correlations. The effect can be understood as a consequence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Igor Žutić , Alexey A. Kovalev

Dynamical magnets can pump spin currents into superconductors. To understand such a phenomenon, we develop a method utilizing the generalized Usadel equation to describe time-dependent situations in superconductors in contact with dynamical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-13 Haakon T. Simensen , Lina G. Johnsen , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

Under a strong transport current, the induced voltage in superconductor nanomembranes in a magnetic field with submicron inhomogeneity shows a pulse on a certain interval of the magnetic field. It is a manifestation of a wide phase-slip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-03 R. O. Rezaev , E. I. Smirnova , O. G. Schmidt , V. M. Fomin

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-18 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

Spintronics uses spins, the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, as an alternative for the electron charge. Its long-term goal is in the development of beyond-Moore low dissipation technology devices. Recent progress demonstrated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 R. Lebrun , A. Ross , S. A. Bender , A. Qaiumzadeh , L. Baldrati , J. Cramer , A. Brataas , R. A. Duine , M. Kläui

Superconductors can form ideal diodes carrying nondissipative supercurrents in the forward direction and dissipative currents in the backward direction. The Josephson diode has proven to be a promising design where the junction between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-04 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Liang Fu

In spin-polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin-charge coupling. The current conversion between the minority (as referred to carriers and not spin) and majority carriers leads to novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic