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We present numerical calculations of the ballistic spin-transport properties of quasi-one-dimensional wires in the presence of the spin-orbit (Rashba) interaction. A tight-binding analog of the Rashba Hamiltonian which models the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francisco Mireles , George Kirczenow

It is difficult to completely eliminate disorder during the fabrication of graphene-based nanodevices. From a simulation perspective, it is straightforward to determine the electronic transport properties of disordered devices if complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Shardul Mukim , Meric E. Kucukbas , Stephen R. Power , Mauro S. Ferreira

We propose a mechanism to drive singlet-triplet spin transitions electrically, in a wide class of graphene nanostructures that present pairs of in-gap zero modes, localized at opposite sublattices. Examples are rectangular nanographenes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Ortiz , N. A. García-Martínez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We study locally gated silicene nanoribbons as spin active devices. We find that the gated segments of nanoribbons with zigzag edge can be used to perform a spin inversion for the electron spins injected with an in-plane orientation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Bartłomiej Rzeszotarski , Bartłomiej Szafran

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent transport for the system of an armchair-edge graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) between two ferromagnetic (FM) leads with arbitrary polarization directions at low temperatures, where a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Benhu Zhou , Xiongwen Chen , Benliang Zhou , Kai-He Ding , Guanghui Zhou

We investigate spin conductance in zigzag graphene nanoribbons and propose a spin injection mechanism based only on graphitic nanostructures. We find that nanoribbons with atomically straight, symmetric edges show zero spin conductance, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli , S. Berber , D. Tomanek , K. Richter

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a folded graphene nanoribbon with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We consider two possible foldings: either the nanoribbon can be folded onto itself in the shape of a hairpin with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-11 Jhon W. González , Mónica Pacheco , Pedro Orellana , Luis Brey , Leonor Chico

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

We have studied spin-depend electron tunnelling through the Rashba barrier in a monolayer graphene lattice. The transfer matrix method, have been employed to obtain the spin dependent transport properties of the chiral particles. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kobra Hasanirokh , Hakimeh Mohammadpour , Arash Phirouznia

We consider longitudinal electronic transport in a graphene monolayer with an external in-plane magnetic field and with extrinsic spin-orbit Rashba interaction. Our main interest is in the in-plane magnetoresistance, observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 S. Kudła , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś , A. Dyrdał

We investigated spin-resolved electronic transport through a junction composed of a nonmagnetic metal electrode and a zigzag carbon nanotube by means of self-consistent Green's function method in the tight binding approximation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen , W. M. Liu

By using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method and tight-binding (TB) approximation, we investigated a perfect control on spin transport in a zigzag $\alpha^{\prime}$-boron nanoribbon ($\alpha^{\prime}$-BNR) as the must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Zahra Askarpour , Mohsen Farokhnezhad , Fahimeh norouzi , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh

For graphene nanoribbons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the peculiar magnetic response due to the presence of a magnetization and geometric confinement are analyzed within a tight-binding model. We observe a sizable transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

We present the study of transport properties of a superconducting wire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling for different orientations of an external magnetic field. Using the nonequilibrium Green's functions in the tight-binding approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

Strain engineering enables quantum confinement in pristine graphene without degrading its intrinsic mobility and spin coherence. Here, we extend previously proposed strain-induced charge-qubit architectures by incorporating spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

We describe how to apply the recursive Green's function method to the computation of electronic transport properties of graphene sheets and nanoribbons in the linear response regime. This method allows for an amenable inclusion of several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Spin-hosting graphene nanostructures are promising metal-free systems for elementary quantum spintronic devices. Conventionally, spins are protected from quenching by electronic bandgaps, which also hinder electronic access to their quantum…

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

In this work, we have studied the spin-dependent ballistic transport and anomalous quantum tunnelling in Bilayer Graphene (BLG) hybrid connected to two Rashba-Zeeman (RZ) leads under an external electric biasing. We investigated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Saumen Acharjee , Arindam Boruah , Reeta Devi , Nimisha Dutta