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Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

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Electrons in graphene are theoretically expected to retain spin states much longer than most materials, making graphene a promising platform for spintronics and quantum information technologies. Here, we use first-principles density-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-17 Adela Habib , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The study is focused on the dispersion properties of a wire medium formed by a rectangular lattice of parallel wires at the frequencies close to its plasma frequency. While the effective medium theory predicts isotropic behaviour of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Denis Sakhno , Rustam Balafendiev , Pavel A. Belov

We theoretically investigate the effect of transverse magnetic anisotropy on spin-flip assisted tunneling through atomic spin chains. Using a phenomenological approach and first-order perturbation theory, we analytically calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 J. Hageman , M. Blaauboer

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

The utilization of large-area graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) is crucial for the development of scalable spin interconnects in all-spin-based memory and logic circuits. However, the fundamental influence of the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Bogdan Karpiak , Anamul Md. Hoque , Bing Zhao , Subir Parui , Saroj P. Dash

After deriving a general correspondence between linear response correlation functions in graphene with and without applied uniaxial strain, we study the dependence on the strain modulus and direction of selected electronic properties, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

When topological insulators possess rotational symmetry their spin lifetime is tied to the scattering time. We show that in anisotropic TIs this tie can be broken and the spin lifetime can be very large. Two different mechanisms can obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Vincent E. Sacksteder , Stefan Kettemann , QuanSheng Wu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy was found to be highly sensitive to the nominal thickness and morphology of laterally heterogeneous CoPd films in the vicinity of the metal insulator transition. We used the effect to tune the anisotropy by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-04 Gregory Kopnov , Alexander Gerber

We investigate spin transport in diffusive graphene nanoribbons with both clean and rough zigzag edges, and long-range potential fluctuations. The long-range fields along the ribbon edges cause the local doping to come close to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Inanc Adagideli , Klaus Richter

The theoretically predicted intrinsic spin relaxation time of up to 1 $\mu s$ in graphene along with extremely high mobilities makes it a promising material in spintronics. In spite of extensive experimental studies of spin relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Si Chen , Roald Ruiter , Vikramaditya Mathkar , Bart J. van Wees , Tamalika Banerjee

There has been much interest in the injection and detection of spin polarized carriers in semiconductors for the purposes of developing novel spintronic devices. Here we report the electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-10 Wei Han , Xin Jiang , Adam Kajdos , See-Hun Yang , Susanne Stemmer , Stuart S. P. Parkin

We present a method for efficient spin wave guiding within the magnonic nanostructures. Our technique is based on the anomalous refraction in the metamaterial flat slab. The gradual change of the material parameters (saturation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 S Mieszczak , O. Busel , P. Gruszecki , A. N. Kuchko , J. W. Kłos , M. Krawczyk

This work considers the g-tensor anisotropy induced by the flexural thermal vibrations in one-dimensional structures and its role in electron spin relaxation. In particular, the mechanism of spin-lattice relaxation via flexural modes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Borysenko , Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

We consider a finite two-dimensional Heisenberg triangular spin lattice at different degrees of anisotropy coupled to a dissipative Lindblad environment obeying the Born-Markovian constrain at finite temperature. We show how applying an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Gehad Sadiek , Samaher Almalki

Designing new quantum materials with long-lived electron spin states urgently requires a general theoretical formalism and computational technique to reliably predict intrinsic spin relaxation times. We present a new, accurate and universal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Junqing Xu , Adela Habib , Sushant Kumar , Feng Wu , Ravishankar Sundararaman , Yuan Ping

Friction-induced energy dissipation impedes the performance of nanoscale devices during their relative motion. Nevertheless, an ingeniously designed structure which utilizes graphene topping can tune the friction force signal by inducing…

The spin density matrix for spin-3/2 hole systems can be decomposed into a sequence of multipoles which has important higher-order contributions beyond the ones known for electron systems [R. Winkler, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{70}, 125301…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitrie Culcer , C. Lechner , R. Winkler

Using a two-dimensional finite-differences scheme to model spin transport in silicon devices with lateral geometry, we simulate the effects of spin relaxation at interfacial boundaries, i.e. the exposed top surface and at an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Jing Li , Ian Appelbaum

The fundamental spin-orbit coupling and spin mixing in graphene and rippled honeycomb lattice materials silicene, germanene, stanene, blue phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene is investigated from first principles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Marcin Kurpas , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian