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We show that a bilayer graphene flake deposited above a ferromagnetic insulator can behave as a spin-filtering device. The ferromagnetic material induces exchange splitting in the graphene flake, and due to the Fano antiresonances occurring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , L. Chico , M. Pacheco

Opposite to the common idea of a magnetic order requirement to obtain spin current propagation, materials with no magnetic ordering have also been revealed to be efficient spin conductors. In this work, we investigate the spin current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Vinícius S. U. A. Vargas , Antônio R. Moura

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 propose a device that allows for the emission of pairs of spin-polarized electrons into the edge-states of a two dimensional topological insulator. Charge and spin emission is achieved using a periodically driven quantum dot weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Andreas Inhofer , Dario Bercioux

The backscattering process of injected electrons on exchange-splitted levels of quantum well (QW) in ferromagnetic metal / insulator / semiconductor heterostructure is studied. It is found that, if one of the exchange-splitted levels lies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Leonid Lutsev

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

Selective and large polarization of current injected into semiconductor (SC) is predicted in Ferromagnet (FM)/Quantum Dot (QD)/SC system by varying the gate voltage above the Kondo temperature. In addition, spin-dependent Kondo effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu

We report selective injection of both spin-up and spin-down single electrons into a quantum dot (QD) from spin-polarized non-equilibrium quantum Hall edge channels (ECs) generated by selective transmission of spin-resolved ECs using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Haruki Kiyama , Takashi Nakajima , Soichiro Teraoka , Akira Oiwa , Seigo Tarucha

Spin-polarized current through an Al nanoparticle in tunnel contact with two ferromagnets is measured as a function of the direction of the applied magnetic field. The nanoparticle filters the spin of injected electrons along a direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 F. T. Birk , C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

Spin current, i.e. the flow of spin angular momentum or magnetic moment, has recently attracted much attention as the promising alternative for charge current with better energy efficiency. Genuine spin current is generally carried by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Seki , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , K. Shibata , M. Kubota , R. Takagi , F. Kagawa , M. Kawasaki , G. Tatara , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura

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 study electron transport through single-electron spin-valve transistors in the presence of non-local exchange between the ferromagnetic leads and the central normal-metal island. The Coulomb interaction is described with the orthodox…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wouter Wetzels , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Milena Grifoni

We consider the generation of a pure spin-current at zero bias voltage with a single time-dependent potential. To such end we study a device made of a mesoscopic ring connected to electrodes and clarify the interplay between a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 J. P. Ramos , L. E. F. Foa Torres , P. A. Orellana , V. M. Apel

Time-varying networks, consisting of lumped elements, such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors, actively modulated in time, have introduced a host of novel wave phenomena and witnessed a remarkable development during recent years. This…

Graphene is an ideal material for spin transport as very long spin relaxation times and lengths can be achieved even at room temperature. However, electrical spin injection is challenging due to the conductivity mismatch problem. Spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 D. I. Indolese , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Jünger , K. Thodkar , C. Schönenberger

Motivated by recent experiments, we calculate both the average current and the current fluctuations for a metallic island which oscillates between two symmetric electrodes. Electrons can only tunnel on or off the island when it is close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Weiss , W. Zwerger

We experimentally study spin accumulation in an aluminium island with all dimensions smaller than the spin relaxation length, so that the spin imbalance throughout the island is uniform. Electrical injection and detection of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zaffalon , B. J. van Wees

We explore the possibility of exciting spin waves in insulating antiferromagnetic films by injecting spin current at the surface. We analyze both magnetically compensated and uncompensated interfaces. We find that the spin current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Matthew W. Daniels , Wei Guo , G. Malcolm Stocks , Di Xiao , Jiang Xiao

We investigated a system based solely on a single molecular species, Cu(tmdt)$_{2}$, accommodating $d$ and ${\pi}$ orbitals within the molecule. $^{13}$C nuclear magnetic resonance measurements captured singlet-triplet excitations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-17 Rina Takagi , Takamasa Hamai , Hiro Gangi , Kazuya Miyagawa , Biao Zhou , Akiko Kobayashi , Kazushi Kanoda

We analyze transport through both a double quantum dot and a triple quantum dot with inhomogeneous Zeeman splittings in the presence of crossed dc and ac magnetic fields. We find that strongly spin-polarized current can be achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Maria Busl , Gloria Platero