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We report on the realization and top-gating of a two-dimensional electron system in a nuclear spin free environment using 28Si and 70Ge source material in molecular beam epitaxy. Electron spin decoherence is expected to be minimized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 J. Sailer , V. Lang , G. Abstreiter , G. Tsuchiya , K. M. Itoh , J. W. Ager , E. E. Haller , D. Kupidura , D. Harbusch , S. Ludwig , D. Bougeard

Magnetic materials show rich optical responses related to the magnetic order. These phenomena reflect the nature of their excitations, providing a powerful probe for the magnetic states and a way to control them. In recent years, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masahiro Sato

A theory of the proximity effects of the exchange splitting in a ferromagnetic metal on a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor is presented. The resulting spin-dependent energy and lifetime in the 2DEG create a marked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

Structural or crystal asymmetry are necessary conditions for emergence of zero-bias photocurrent in light detectors. Structural asymmetry has been typically achieved via $p-n$ doping being a technologically complex process. Here, we propose…

We propose a photoexcitation scheme for pure spin current generation in graphene subject to a Rashba spinorbit coupling. Although excitation using circularly-polarized light does not result in optical orientation of spins in graphene unless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Julien Rioux , Guido Burkard

The existence of several 2D materials with heavy atoms in their composition has been recently demonstrated. The electronic and optical properties of these materials can be accurately computed with numerically intensive density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Cuauhtémoc Salazar , Rodrigo A. Muniz , J. E. Sipe

All-optical generation of pure spin current -- the flow of spin in the absence of a corresponding charge flow -- relies on a symmetry based compensation of valley charge. The 2d $d$-wave altermagnets, ideal spintronics materials due to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Deepika Gill , Ruikai Wu , Peter Elliott , Sangeeta Sharma , Sam Shallcross

Electron fractionalization into spinons and chargeons plays a crucial role in 2D models of strongly correlated electrons. In this paper we show that spin-charge separation is not a phenomenon confined to lower dimensions but, rather, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-01 M. Cristina Diamantini , Carlo A. Trugenberger

We predict a mechanism to generate a pure spin current in a two-dimensional topological insulator. As the magnetic impurities exist on one of edges of the two-dimensional topological insulator, a gap is opened in the corresponding gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

Spin transport electronics - spintronics - focuses on utilizing electron spin as a state variable for quantum and classical information processing and storage. Some insulating materials, such as diamond, offer defect centers whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Cardellino , N. Scozzaro , M. R. Herman , A. J. Berger , C. Zhang , K. C. Fong , C. Jayaprakash , D. V. Pelekhov , P. C. Hammel

Energy, momentum, and angular momentum are fundamental properties tied to the symmetries of space and time, with photons and other elementary particles acting as carriers of these quantities. In most optical and optoelectronic devices,…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ilya Deriy , Danil Kornovan , Mihail Petrov , Andrey Bogdanov

The edge spin galvanic effect (ESGE) in $d$-wave altermagnets is proposed. ESGE is a creation of an electrical current flowing along the edge of the sample, which is driven by the spin orientation of charge carriers. The ESGE current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 L. E. Golub

Using the wave nature of the electrons, we demonstrate that a transverse spin current can be generated simply by the diffraction through a single slit in the spin-orbital coupling system of the two-dimensional electron gas. The diffracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Chyh-Hong Chern , Cheng-Ju Lin

We theoretically study direct current generation in a quantum spin chain induced by spinon excitations by light irradiation. We consider a s=1/2 1D antiferromagnetic XXZ model with magnetoelectric coupling that describes multiferroics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Ryosuke Yamashita , Shintaro Takayoshi , Takahiro Morimoto

The steady current induced by electromagnetic field in a 2D system with asymmetric scatterers is studied. The scatterers are assumed to be oriented cuts with one diffusive and another specular sides. Besides, the existence of isotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

The challenging task of scaling-down the size of the power saving electronic devices can be accomplished by exploiting the spin degree of freedom of the conduction electrons in van der Waals (vdW) spintronic architectures built with 2D…

Spin transistors based on a semiconducting channel attached to ferromagnetic electrodes suffer from fast spin decay and extremely low spin injection/detection efficiencies. Here, we propose an alternative all-in-one spin device whose…

Understanding non-equilibrium spin transport through 2D ferromagnets is a theoretical challenge, as correlations produce a complex electronic structure with coexisting itinerant and localized electrons. We have developed a fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

Spintronics has become a broad and important research field that intersects with magnetism, nano-electronics, and materials science. Its overarching aim is to provide a fundamental understanding of spin-dependent phenomena in solid-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics have recently emerged as a promising avenue for next-generation optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. Due to the intrinsic absence of inversion symmetry, 2D ferroelectrics exhibit bulk photovoltaic effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Francesco Delodovici , Brahim Dkhil , Charles Paillard