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Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a major experimental probe of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), yet it remains unclear whether the measured spin polarization reflects molecular chirality itself or the broader…

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In this paper we outline a physically motivated framework for describing spin-selective recombination processes in chiral systems, from which we derive spin-selective reaction operators for recombination reactions of donor-bridge-acceptor…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Thomas P. Fay , David T. Limmer

We propose a simple model quantum network consisting of diamond-shaped plaquettes with deterministic distribution of magnetic and non-magnetic atoms in presence of a uniform external magnetic flux in each plaquette and predict that such a…

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We describe theoretically the process of multi-beam reflection in a two-dimensional electron system with a lateral potential barrier. Due to spin-orbital interaction, the reflection process leads to the formation of three beams with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. O. Govorov , A. V. Kalameitsev , J. P. Dulka

Conventional computer electronics creates a dichotomy between how information is processed and how it is stored. Silicon chips process information by controlling the flow of charge through a network of logic gates. This information is then…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Chernyshov , M. Overby , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , Y. Lyanda-Geller , L. P. Rokhinson

We undertook an ab-initio study of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sandwiched between Ni(111) layers to examine the interface of this material structure. We considered Ni(111)/hBN/Ni(111) with a slab with three Ni atomic layers to determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Halimah Harfah , Yusuf Wicaksono , Muhammad Aziz Majidi , Koichi Kusakabe

Altermagnetism has been widely explored in 3D and 2D crystals, but its one-dimensional realization remains largely unexplored. Here we propose an altermagnetic nanotube formed by rolling a 2D altermagnet, which converts momentum-odd spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xin Chen , Zhen Han , Linyang Li , Mingwen Zhao

One of the actual challenges of spintronics is the realization of a spin-transistor allowing to control spin transport through an electrostatic gate. In this review, we report on different experiments which demonstrate a gate control of…

We characterize the spin injection into bilayer graphene fully encapsulated in hBN using trilayer (3L) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) tunnel barriers. As a function of the DC bias, the differential spin injection polarization is found to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Johannes Christian Leutenantsmeyer , Josep Ingla-Aynés , Mallikajurna Gurram , Bart J. van Wees

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

In this paper we review the recent field of organic spintronics, where organic materials are applied as a medium to transport and control spin-polarized signals. The contacts for injecting and detecting spins are formed by metals, oxides,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 W. J. M. Naber , S. Faez , W. G. van der Wiel

We characterize the transport properties of functionalized graphene nanoribbons using extensive first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) that encompass both monovalent and divalent ligands, hydrogenated defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-08 Giovanni Cantele , Young-Su Lee , Domenico Ninno , Nicola Marzari

Recent ferromagnetic resonance experiments and theory of Pt/Nb/Ni8Fe2 proximity-coupled structures strongly suggest that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in Pt in conjunction with a magnetic exchange field in Ni8Fe2 are the essential ingredients…

Electrical control of spin polarization is very desirable in spintronics, since electric field can be easily applied locally in contrast with magnetic field. Here, we propose a new concept of bipolar magnetic semiconductor (BMS) in which…

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The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

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

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an {\alpha}-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with spin polarization of the transmitted electrons. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nguyen T. N. Ha , L. Rasabathina , O. Hellwig , A. Sharma , G. Salvan , S. Yochelis , Y. Paltiel , L. T. Baczewski , C. Tegenkamp

Understanding the spin-texture behavior of boundary modes in ultrathin topological insulator films is critically essential for the design and fabrication of functional nano-devices. Here by using spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

It remains an elusive goal to achieve high performance single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) field effect transistors (FETs) comprised of only single chirality SWNTs. Many separation mechanisms have been devised and various degrees of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-03 Li Zhang , Xiaomin Tu , Kevin Welsher , Xinran Wang , Ming Zheng , Hongjie Dai

A P-N junction engineered within a Dirac cone system acts as a gate tunable angular filter based on Klein tunneling. For a 3D topological insulator with substantial bandgap, such a filter can produce a charge-to-spin conversion due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Samiran Ganguly , Avik W. Ghosh