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We have observed a large spin splitting between "spin" $+1$ and $-1$ heavy-hole excitons, having unbalanced populations, in undoped GaAs/AlAs quantum wells in the absence of any external magnetic field. Time-resolved photoluminescence…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Vina , L. Munoz , E. Perez , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor , K. Ploog

We demonstrate new mechanisms for gate tunable current partition at topological zero-line intersections in a graphene-based current splitter. Based on numerical calculations of the non-equilibrium Green's functions and Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Ke Wang , Xinzhou Deng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Jeil Jung , Zhenhua Qiao

We consider a single electron in a 1D quantum dot with a static slanting Zeeman field. By combining the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of the electron, an effective quantum two-level (qubit) system is defined. This pseudo-spin can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasuhiro Tokura , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Toshiaki Obata , Seigo Tarucha

Herein, we reported giant tunability of the physical properties of 2DEGs at the spinel/perovskite interface of {\gamma}-Al2O3/SrTiO3 (GAO/STO). By modulating the carrier density thus the band filling with ionic-liquid gating, the system…

The linear magnetoelectric effect (ME) is the phenomenon by which an electric field produces a magnetization. Its observation requires both time-reversal and space-inversion symmetries to be broken, as in multiferroics. While the ME effect…

A key concept in the emerging field of spintronics is the gate voltage or electric field control of spin precession via the effective magnetic field generated by the Rashba spin orbit interaction. Here, we demonstrate the generation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Dong Liang , Xuan P. A. Gao

We study the spin-dependent conductance of ballistic mesoscopic ring systems in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that, for the setup proposed, even a small Zeeman splitting can lead to a considerable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus Popp , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

Spin electronic structure of graphene pi-states and Pt 5d-states for the Graphene/Pt interface has been investigated. Here, we report a large induced spin-orbit splitting (~70-100 meV) of graphene pi-states with formation of non-degenerated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 A. M. Shikin , A. A. Rybkina , A. G. Rybkin , I. I. Klimovskikh , P. N. Skirdkov , K. A. Zvezdin , A. K. Zvezdin

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

Efficient conversion of a spin signal into an electric voltage in mainstream semiconductors is one of the grand challenges of spintronics. This process is commonly achieved via a ferromagnetic tunnel barrier where non-linear electric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Emile Fourneau , Alejandro V. Silhanek , Ngoc Duy Nguyen

When a charge current is injected into an altermagnet along a suitable crystallographic direction, a transverse spin current can be generated. This so-called spin-splitter effect does not rely on spin-orbit coupling, and is thus distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Among recent proposals for next-generation, non-charge-based logic is the notion that a single electron can be trapped and its spin can be manipulated through the application of gate potentials. In this paper, we present numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Sanjay Prabhakar , James E. Raynolds

A split gate technique is used to form a lateral quantum dot in a two-dimensional electron gas of a modulation-doped silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructure. e-beam lithography was employed to produce split gates. By applying negative…

At each of the boundaries of the two-dimensional (2D) rectangular conductor parallel to the electric current there arises a stripe with an electric field transverse to the current and a 100% electron spin polarization. The two stripes have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

We investigate the possiblity of creating directed spin-polarized currents in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) subject to an asymmetric magnetic field and an external adiabatic driving. We thereby generalize concepts of quantum charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Scheid , Michael Wimmer , Dario Bercioux , Klaus Richter

A theory of the spin exciton capture by a magnetic impurity in a 2D electron gas is developed. We consider the resonance model for electron scattering by a transition metal impurity and calculate the binding potential for spin excitons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Fleurov , K. Kikoin

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret