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We demonstrate control over the spin state of a semiconductor quantum dot exciton using a polarized picosecond laser pulse slightly detuned from a biexciton resonance. The control pulse follows an earlier pulse, which generates an exciton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 E. Poem , O. Kenneth , Y. Kodriano , Y. Benny , S. Khatsevich , J. E. Avron , D. Gershoni

We calculate the efficiency of infrared optical spin injection in single-layer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and for in-plane magnetic field. The injection rate in the photon frequency range corresponding to the Rashba splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnaś

A scheme of spin diode is proposed that uses a step-like quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, connected to two leads with different width. It is shown that a very large vertical spin-polarized current can be generated when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

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 study theoretically and experimentally the transmission intensity of polarized light through the air-spaced Glan-type polarizing prsims. It is found that the variation of the transmitted intensity with the rotation angle deviates from…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ji-Yang Fan , Hong-Xia Li , Fu-Quan Wu

When an off-resonant light field is coupled with atomic spins, its polarization can rotate depending on the direction of the spins via a Faraday rotation which has been used for monitoring and controlling the atomic spins. We observed…

The precise control of spins in semiconductor spintronic devices requires electrical means for generating spin packets with a well-defined initial phase. We demonstrate a pulsed electrical scheme that triggers the spin ensemble phase in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 L. R. Schreiber , C. Schwark , G. Güntherodt , M. Lepsa , C. Adelmann , C. J. Palmstrøm , X. Lou , P. A. Crowell , B. Beschoten

Manipulating the spin polarization of electron beams using light is highly desirable but exceedingly challenging, as the approaches proposed in previous studies using free-space light usually require enormous laser intensities. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu

We show that polarization states of electromagnetic waves can be manipulated easily using a single thin uniaxial crystal plate. By performing a rotational transformation of the coordinates and controlling the thickness of the plate, we can…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xiaohu Wu , Ceji Fu

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We propose to use the lateral interface between two regions with different strengths of the spin-orbit interaction(s) to spin-polarize the electrons in gated two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. For a beam with a non zero angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Khodas , A. Shekhter , A. M. Finkel'stein

Optical vortex beams are a type of topological light characterized by their inherent orbital angular momentum, leading to the propagation of a spiral-shaped wavefront. In this study, we focus on two-dimensional electrons with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Shunki Yamamoto , Masahiro Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto , Takeshi Mizushima

The influence of a thermal gradient on the propagation properties of externally excited dipolar spin waves in a magnetic insulator waveguide is investigated. It is shown that spin waves propagating towards a colder region along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-09 Björn Obry , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka , Andrii V. Chumak , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands

Spin waves propagating in magnetic materials exhibit nonlinear behavior at large amplitudes due to the competition between excitation and relaxation, providing an attractive platform for exploring nonlinear wave dynamics. In particular,…

The magnonic crystal, which has a spatial modulation wave vector $q$, couples the spin wave with wave vector $k$ to the one with wave vector $k-q$. For a conventional magnonic crystal with direct current (dc) supply, the spin waves around…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Ankang Liu , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Flexible manipulation of terahertz-wave polarization during the generation process is very important for terahertz applications, especially for the next-generation on-chip functional terahertz sources. However, current terahertz emitters…

We present a theory of the optical control of the spin of an electron in an InAs quantum dot. We show how two Raman-detuned laser pulses can be used to obtain arbitrary single-qubit rotations via the excitation of an intermediate trion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Emary , L. J. Sham

We demonstrate controlled polarization rotation of an optical field conditional on the presence of a second field. Induced rotations of greater than pi/2 rad are seen with a transmission of 95%, corresponding to a ratio of phase shift to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Paul Siddons , Charles S. Adams , Ifan G. Hughes

The interference of the directly emitted photoelectron wave and the wave scattered coherently by neighboring atoms gives holographic fringes in the photoelectron emission intensity $I(\hat{\bf R})$. In the electron emission holography…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Eddy Timmermans , G. T. Trammell , J. P. Hannon

We study the optically pumped nuclear spin polarization in a single GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well in the quantum Hall system. We apply resistive detection via the contact hyperfine interaction, which provides high sensitivity and selectivity, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 K. Akiba , T. Yuge , S. Kanasugi , K. Nagase , Y. Hirayama