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A new current induced spin-torque transfer effect has been observed in a single ferromagnetic layer without resorting to multilayers. At a specific current density of one polarity injected from a point contact, abrupt resistance changes due…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Ji , C. L. Chien

We investigate the spin Seebeck effect and spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator and a magnetic impurity deposited on a normal metal. By the numerical renormalization group calculation, we show that spin current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Takeo Kato , Mamoru Matsuo

Single molecular magnets (SMMs) and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) attract significant interest due to their potential in quantum information processing, scalable quantum computing, and extended lifetimes and coherence times. The limiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Nosheen Younas , Yu Zhang , Andrei Piryatinski , Eric R Bittner

We present a theory of magnetization dynamics driven by spin-polarized current in terms of the quantum master equation. In the spin coherent state representation, the master equation becomes a Fokker-Planck equation, which naturally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yong Wang , L. J. Sham

Spin polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations is discussed in terms of nonequilibrium Green functions formalism in the finite-U slave boson mean field approximation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński

We propose an effect whereby an electric current along the interface between a ferromagnetic and normal metal leads to injection of pure spin current into the normal metal, if the magnetization-direction in the ferromagnet varies along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 E. van der Bijl , R. E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

In this work we investigate the spin-dependent transport through a double quantum dot embedded in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction and side attached to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

We investigate the noise in spin transport through a single quantum dot (QD) tunnel coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations. Based on a spin-resolved quantum master equation, auto- and cross-correlations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Guanjian Hu , Shikuan Wang , Jing Hu , RuiQiang Li , Yiying Yan , JunYan Luo

Using newly developed quantum-classical hybrid framework, we investigate interaction between spin-polarized conduction electrons and a single spin wave (SW) coherently excited within a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire. When the nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Abhin Suresh , Utkarsh Bajpai , Branislav K. Nikolic

Controlling electronic transport through a single-molecule junction is crucial for molecular electronics or spintronics. In magnetic molecular devices, the spin degree-of-freedom can be used to this end since the magnetic properties of the…

In recent years, electrical spin injection and detection has grown into a lively area of research in the field of spintronics. Spin injection into a paramagnetic material is usually achieved by means of a ferromagnetic source, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sergio O. Valenzuela

The influence of a single magnetic cluster in a non-magnetic host metal on the spin current $\mathbf{j}^{(s)}$ and the charge current $\mathbf{j}$ in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic STM tip is studied theoretically. Spin-flip processes due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We present a theory of magnetotransport through an electronic orbital, where the electron spin interacts with a (sufficiently) large external spin via an exchange interaction. Using a semiclassical approximation, we derive a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Klemens Mosshammer , Tobias Brandes

We analyze transport of magnetization in insulating systems described by a spin Hamiltonian. The magnetization current through a quasi one-dimensional magnetic wire of finite length suspended between two bulk magnets is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

We introduce a new class of spintronics devices in which a spin-valve like effect results from strong spin-orbit coupling in a single ferromagnetic layer rather than from injection and detection of a spin-polarized current by two coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gould , C. Rüster , T. Jungwirth , E. Girgis , G. M. Schott , R. Giraud , K. Brunner , G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp

We present a theory for a complete reconstruction of non-local spin correlations in ferromagnet-normal conductors. This quantum spin tomography is based on cross correlation measurements of electric currents into ferromagnetic terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Samuelsson , Arne Brataas

Properties are discussed of a ferromagnetic junction of the type "rod contacting with film". Very high current density of the order of $10^9$ A/cm$^2$ may be achieved in the contact region. We show it can lead to inversion of population of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent-induced magnetization dynamics of a two-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetically ordered spins placed on a conventional superconductor with broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kjetil M. D. Hals

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

By viewing current in the detecting lead of a spintronic device as being an ensemble of flowing spins corresponding to a mixed quantum state, where each spin itself is generally described by an improper mixture generated during the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma