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We design spin filters for particles with potentially arbitrary spin S (= 1/2, 1, 3/2,....) using a one-dimensional periodic chain of magnetic atoms as a quantum device. Describing the system within a tight-binding formalism we present an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Biplab Pal , Rudolf A. Römer , Arunava Chakrabarti

We show that a quasiperiodic magnetic chain comprising magnetic atomic sites sequenced in Fibonacci pattern can act as a prospective candidate for spin filters for particles with arbitrary spin states. This can be achieved by tuning a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Biplab Pal

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Biplab Pal , Paramita Dutta

We show that a diamond shaped periodic network, recently proposed as a model of a spin filter (A. Aharony {\em et al.} \cite{aharon08}) is capable of behaving as a p-type or an n-type semiconductor depending on a suitable choice of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

In the present work we propose that a one-dimensional quantum heterostructure composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be utilized as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. A simple tight-binding framework is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

We consider the problem of particle tunneling through a periodically driven ferromagnetic quantum barrier connected to two leads. The barrier is modeled by an impurity site representing a ferromagnetic layer or quantum dot in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Daniel Thuberg , Enrique Munoz , Sebastian Eggert , Sebastian A. Reyes

We propose, for the first time, that an array of diamond plaquettes, each possessing vanishing net magnetization, can achieve complete spin polarization over a broad bias window. Furthermore, this system can be utilized to realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Debjani Das Gupta , Santanu K. Maiti

We propose that a magnetic quantum wire composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be used as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

For a linear chain of diamond-like elements, we show that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (which can be tuned by a perpendicular gate voltage) and the Aharonov-Bohm flux (due to a perpendicular magnetic field) can combine to select only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yasuhiro Tokura , Shingo Katsumoto

The control of spin and orbital angular momentum without relying on magnetic materials is commonly accomplished by breaking of inversion symmetry, which enables charge-to-spin conversion and spin selectivity in electron transfer processes…

Nature creates electrons with two values of the spin projection quantum number. In certain applications, it is important to filter electrons with one spin projection from the rest. Such filtering is not trivial, since spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Areg Ghazaryan , Mikhail Lemeshko , Artem G. Volosniev

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

Recent work by Lawrie et al. [PRR 7, 023209 (2025)] introduced a non-diffracting resonant angular filter on a network of thin channels (modelled via quantum graph theory) that exhibits unit transmission of acoustic waves at a discrete,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Tristan M. Lawrie , Oliver M. Brown

A novel scheme for spin filters is proposed by studying the coherent transport of electrons through the quantum wires with lateral magnetic modulations. Unlike other schemes in the literature, the modulation in our scheme is much weaker…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi , M. W. Wu

We present a method that implement directional, perfect state transfers within a branched spin network by exploiting quantum interferences in the time-domain. That provides a tool to isolate subsystems from a large and complex one.…

Electric fields are increasingly used for coherently manipulating spin states in semiconductor and molecular systems. Here we discuss the spin manipulation allowed by the modulation of the main parameters entering the Hamiltonians of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. Troiani

The interplay of massive electrons with spin-orbit coupling in bulk graphene results in a spin-valley dependent gap. Thus, a barrier with such properties can act as a filter, transmitting only opposite spins from opposite valleys. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

We investigate the spin-resolved electron dynamics in a double quantum dot driven by ultrafast asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. Using a analytical model we show that applying an appropriate pulse sequence allows to control coherently the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 J. Waetzel , A. S. Moskalenko , J. Berakdar

Spin networks, essentially labeled graphs, are ``good quantum numbers'' for the quantum theory of geometry. These structures encompass a diverse range of techniques which may be used in the quantum mechanics of finite dimensional systems,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Seth A. Major
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