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We present new mechanism for manipulation of the spin-wave amplitude through the use of the dynamic charge-mediated magnetoelectric effect in ultrathin multilayers composed of dielectric thin-film capacitors separated by a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

The excitations in conventional superconductors, Bogoliubov quasiparticles, are spin-1/2 fermions but their charge is energy-dependent and, in fact, zero at the gap edge. Therefore, in superconductors (unlike normal metals) the spin and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 CHL Quay , M Aprili

We present a theoretical study based on the Anderson model of the transport properties of a Kondo impurity (atom or quantum dot) connected to ferromagnetic leads, which can sustain a non-equilibrium spin current. We analyze the case where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Laurent Limot , Pascal Simon

We consider a trapped atomic system in the presence of spatially varying laser fields. The laser-atom interaction generates a pseudospin degree of freedom (referred to simply as spin) and leads to an effective spin-orbit coupling for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-18 Tudor D. Stanescu , Chuanwei Zhang , Victor Galitski

Coherence peak effects in a superconductor induced by a thermal spin current are reported. We measured inverse spin Hall effects induced by spin injection from a ferrimagnetic insulator Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ into a superconductor NbN using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Maki Umeda , Yuki Shiomi , Takashi Kikkawa , Tomohiko Niizeki , Jana Lustikova , Saburo Takahashi , Eiji Saitoh

A lateral array of ferromagnetic tunnel junctions is used to inject and detect non-equilibrium quasi-particle spin distribution in a superconducting strip made of Al. The strip width and thickness is kept below the quasi particle spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Urech , J. Johansson , N. Poli , V. Korenivski , D. B. Haviland

We show that the injection of a pure spin current (not accompanied by charge current) into a ring can induce a circulating charge current in the ring, provided that transport coefficients of the ring are spin-dependent and inhomogeneous. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Soon-Wook Jung , Hyun-Woo Lee

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

Superconducting spintronics has emerged in the last decade as a promising new field that seeks to open a new dimension for nanoelectronics by utilizing the internal spin structure of the superconducting Cooper pair as a new degree of…

A superconducting double spin valve device is proposed. Its operation takes advantage of the interplay between the spin-filtering effect of ferromagnetic insulators and superconductivity-induced out-of-equilibrium transport. Depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Francesco Giazotto

A microscopic Hamiltonian reflecting the correct symmetry of $f$-orbitals is proposed to discuss superconductivity in heavy fermion systems. In the orbitally degenerate region in which not only spin fluctuations but also orbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Tetsuya Takimoto , Takashi Hotta , Takahiro Maehira , Kazuo Ueda

We propose a general theory of the spin-transfer effects that occur when current flows through inhomogeneous magnetic systems. Our theory does not rest on an appeal to conservation of total spin, can assess whether or not current-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvaro S. Núñez , A. H. MacDonald

We consider spin polarized transport in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet (F1-I-S-I-F2) junction. We find that the spin current is strongly dependent on the spin configurations, the doping and space charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Jinbin Li , S. T. Chui

We show that spin polarization of electrons in nonmagnetic semiconductors near specially tailored ferromagnet-semiconductor junctions can achieve 100%. This effect is realized even at moderate spin injection coefficients of the contact when…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Osipov , V. N. Smelyanskiy , A. G. Petukhov

Generation and measurement of non-equilibrium spin current in two probe configuration is discussed. It is argued and shown that spin current can be generated in two terminal non-magnetic system. Further it is shown that these spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. P. Pareek , A. M. Jayannavar

We investigate a spin-electricity conversion effect in a topological insulator/ferromagnet heterostructure. In the spin-momentum-locked surface state, an electric current generates nonequilibrium spin accumulation, which causes a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kentaro Nomura

The distinctive quasiparticle distribution existing under nonequilibrium in a superconductor-insulator-normal metal-insulator-superconductor (SINIS) mesoscopic line is proposed as a novel tool to control the supercurrent intensity in a long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkila , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio , J. P. Pekola , F. Beltram

This article discusses spin transport in systems with spin-orbit interactions and how it can be understood in a semiclassical picture. I will first present a semiclassical wave-packet description of spin transport, which explains how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 Dimitrie Culcer

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

When electron spins are injected uniformly into a paramagnetic disc, they can precess along the demagnetizing field induced by the resulting magnetic moment. Normally this precession damps out by virtue of the spin relaxation which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , B. J. van Wees