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A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

Taking into account an inner structure of the arms of the Aharonov-Bohm ring (AB ring) we have analyzed the transport features related to the topological phase transition which is induced in a superconducting wire (SC wire) with strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 V. V. Valkov , M. Yu. Kagan , S. V. Aksenov

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

We consider the two-dimensional electron gas confined laterally to a narrow channel by a harmonic potential. As the Zeeman splitting matches the intersubband separation the nonlocal spin polarization develops a minimum as reported by Frolov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 A. Iqbal , M. Khodas

We find clear signatures of spin-dependent negative differential resistance in compound systems comprising a graphene nanoribbon and a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of it. The periodic array of ferromagnetic strips…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 J. Munárriz , C. Gaul , A. V. Malyshev , P. A. Orellana , C. A. Müller , F. Domínguez-Adame

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

Graphene nanoribbons provide an opportunity to integrate phase-coherent transport phenomena with nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Due to the strain induced by a deflection in a graphene nanoribbon resonator, coherent electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Isacsson

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

We investigate theoretically the electronic transport properties in narrow graphene ribbons with an adatom-induced defect. It is found that the lowest conductance step of a metallic graphene nanoribbon may develop a dip even down to zero at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 Jie-Yun Yan , Ping Zhang , Bo Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu , Zhigang Wang , Suqing Duan , Xian-Geng Zhao

We develop an electron transport theory for the hybrid system of a semiconducting carbon nanotube that encapsulates a one-atom-thick metallic wire. The theory predicts Fano resonances in electron transport through the system, whereby the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 M. F. Gelin , I. V. Bondarev

We investigate the evolution of spin dynamics in graphene nanoribbon superlattices (GNSLs) with armchair and zigzag edges in the presence of a drift field. We determine the exact evolution operator and show that it exhibits spin echo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L Bonilla , James E Raynolds

Half-metals have been envisioned as active components in spintronic devices by virtue of their completely spin-polarized electrical currents. Actual materials hosting half-metallic phases, however, remain scarce. Here, we predict that…

The Landauer-B\"uttiker conductivity of arbitrary uniaxial spatially dependent strain in an armchair graphene nanoribbon is studied. Due to the uniaxial character of the strain, the corresponding transfer matrix can be reduced to a product…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Abdiel E. Champo , Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

{\it Ab initio} density functional theory calculations are performed to investigate the electronic structure of MoS$_2$ armchair nanoribbons in the presence of an external static electric field. Such nanoribbons, which are nonmagnetic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Kapildeb Dolui , Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju , Stefano Sanvito

The phenomenon of ferrimagnetic spin wave resonance [uncompensated antiferromagnetic spin wave resonance] has been detected for the first time. It has been observed in carbon nanotubes, produced by high energy ion beam modification of…

We investigate the nonequilibrium spin polarization due to a temperature gradient in antiferromagnetic insulators, which is the magnonic analogue of the inverse spin-galvanic effect of electrons. We derive a linear response theory of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bo Li , Alexander Mook , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Alexey A. Kovalev

We present an electrically driven plasmonic device consisting of a gold nanoparticle trapped in a gap between two electrodes. The tunneling current in the device generates plasmons, which decay radiatively. The emitted spectrum extends up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Yuval Vardi , Eyal Cohen-Hoshen , Guy Shalem , Israel Bar-Joseph

Electronic structures of SiC nanoribbons have been studied by spin-polarized density functional calculations. The armchair nanoribbons are nonmagnetic semiconductor, while the zigzag nanoribbons are magnetic metal. The spin polarization in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Lian Sun , Yafei Li , Zhenyu Li , Qunxiang Li , 1 Zhen Zhou , Zhongfang Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

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