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In easy-plane antiferromagnets, the nature of the elementary excitations of the spin system is captured by the precession of the magnon pseudospin around its equilibrium pseudofield, manifesting itself in the magnon Hanle effect. Here, we…

We study the transport of spin polarized electrons in n-GaAs using spatially resolved continuous wave Faraday rotation. From the measured steady state distribution, we determine spin relaxation times under drift conditions and, in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beck , C. Metzner , S. Malzer , G. H. Döhler

We theoretically demonstrate linear spin-wave nonreciprocity in a Ni80Fe20 nanostripe waveguide, based on interband magnonic transitions induced by a time-reversal and spatialinversion symmetry breaking magnetic field. An analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kai Di , Hock Siah Lim , Vanessa Li Zhang , Ser Choon Ng , Meng Hau Kuok

We investigate how spins relax in intrinsic graphene. The spin-orbit coupling arises from the band structure and is enhanced by ripples. The orbital motion is influenced by scattering centers and ripple-induced gauge fields. Spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Huertas-Hernando , F. Guinea , A. Brataas

Organic and carbon-based materials are attractive for spintronics because their small spin-orbit coupling and low hyperfine interaction is expected to give rise to large spin-relaxation times. However, the corresponding spin-relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Banerjee , W. G. van der Wiel , R. Jansen

We study propagation of the Gaussian beam of spin waves and its reflection from the edge of thin yttrium-iron-garnet film with in-plane magnetization perpendicular to this edge. We have performed micromagnetic simulations supported by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 P. Gruszecki , Yu. S. Dadoenkova , N. N. Dadoenkova , I. L. Lyubchanskii , J. Romero-Vivas , K. Y. Guslienko , M. Krawczyk

It is a common perception that the transport of a spin current in polycrystalline metal is isotropic and independent of the polarization direction, even though spin current is a tensorlike quantity and its polarization direction is a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Chao Zhou , Fatih Kandaz , Yunjiao Cai , Chuan Qin , Mengwen Jia , Zhe Yuan , Yizheng Wu , Yi Ji

We study transmission in a system consisting of a curved graphene surface as an arc (ripple) of circle connected to two flat graphene sheets on the left and right sides. We introduce a mass term in the curved part and study the effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Jaouad El-hassouny , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmania

The large epitaxial stress induced by the misfit between a triple atomic layer Fe film and an Ir(111) substrate is relieved by the formation of a dense dislocation line network. Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Aurore Finco , Pin-Jui Hsu , André Kubetzka , Kirsten von Bergmann , Roland Wiesendanger

We use a combination of molecular dynamics and quantum transport simulations to investigate the upper limit of spin transport in suspended graphene. We find that thermally-induced atomic-scale corrugations are the dominant factor, limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Aron W. Cummings , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Pedro Alcázar Guerrero , Jean-Christophe Charlier , Stephan Roche

Generalised hydrodynamics predicts universal ballistic transport in integrable lattice systems when prepared in generic inhomogeneous initial states. However, the ballistic contribution to transport can vanish in systems with additional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-14 Marko Ljubotina , Marko Znidaric , Tomaz Prosen

We report on a theoretical study of spin dynamics of an ensemble of spin-polarized electrons injected in a diffusive microchannel with linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We explore the dependence of the spin-precession and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova , Irena Knezevic , J. Wunderlich , T. Jungwirth

Anisotropic low-temperature properties of the cubic spinel helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 in the single-domain spin-spiral state are investigated by a combination of neutron scattering, thermal conductivity, ultrasound velocity, and dilatometry…

Theory of the electron spin relaxation in graphene on the SiO$_2$ substrate is developed. Charged impurities and polar optical surface phonons in the substrate induce an effective random Bychkov-Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling field which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Ertler , S. Konschuh , M. Gmitra , J. Fabian

Stress-strain measurements and ultrasound propagation experiments in glass bead packs have been simultaneously conducted to characterize the stress-induced anisotropy under uniaxial loading. These measurements, realized respectively with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Yacine Khidas , Xiaoping Jia

Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We present a theoretical study of spin transport in a superconducting mesoscopic spin valve under the action of a magnetic field misaligned with respect to the injected spin. We demonstrate that superconductivity can either strongly enhance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-09 M. Silaev , P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. S. Bergeret

Graphitic nanostructures, e.g. carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene, have been proposed as ideal materials for spin conduction[1-7]; they have long electronic mean free paths[8] and small spin-orbit coupling[9], hence are expected to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Sungjae Cho , Yung-Fu Chen , Michael S. Fuhrer

Within the field of spintronics major efforts are directed towards developing applications for spin-based transport devices made fully out of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work we present an experimental realization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Alexey A. Kaverzin , Talieh S. Ghiasi , Avalon H. Dismukes , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

Ballistic hot electron transport overcomes the well-known problems of conductivity and spin lifetime mismatch that plagues spin injection in semiconductors with ferromagnetic ohmic contacts. Through the spin-dependent mean-free-path, it…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-15 Ian Appelbaum