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We study the spin-resolved transport properties of T-shaped double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Using the numerical renormalization group method, we calculate the linear conductance and the spin polarization of the current…

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We propose, for the first time, that an array of diamond plaquettes, each possessing vanishing net magnetization, can achieve complete spin polarization over a broad bias window. Furthermore, this system can be utilized to realize…

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Controlling the spin transport at the single-molecule level, especially without the use of ferromagnetic contacts, becomes a focus of research in spintronics. Inspired by the progress on atomic-level molecular synthesis, through…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2022-11-17 Yan-Dong Guo , Xue Zhao , Hong-Ru Zhao , Li Yang , Li-Yan Lin , Yue Jiang , Dan Ma , Yu-Ting Chen , Xiao-Hong Yan

We study spin-dependent conductance in a system composed of a ferromagnetic (FM) Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) tip coupled to a metallic host surface with an adatom. The Kondo resonance is taken into account via the Doniach-Sunjic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. C. Seridonio , F. M. Souza , J. Del Nero , I. A. Shelykh

Efficient particle sorting in microfluidic systems is vital for advancements in biomedical diagnostics and industrial applications. This study numerically investigates particle migration and passive sorting in symmetric serpentine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-16 Sayan Karmakar , Anish Pal , Sourav Sarkar , Achintya Mukhopadhyay

Non-collinear antiferromagnets (nAFMs) with a small net magnetic moment offer new opportunities for ultrafast spintronic devices, owing to unique physical properties. While in ferromagnets and collinear AFMs the spin current polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We consider the problem of particle tunneling through a periodically driven ferromagnetic quantum barrier connected to two leads. The barrier is modeled by an impurity site representing a ferromagnetic layer or quantum dot in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Daniel Thuberg , Enrique Munoz , Sebastian Eggert , Sebastian A. Reyes

We consider two types of magnetic Josephson junctions~(JJ). They are formed by two singlet superconductors~S and magnetic layers between them so that the JJ is a heterostructure of the S$_{\text{m}}$/n/S$_{\text{m}}$ type,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-11 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

We investigate the enhancement of spin polarization in a quantum wire in the presence of a constriction and a spin-orbit coupling segment. It is shown that the spin-filtering effect is significantly heightened in comparison with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Jun-Feng Liu , Zhi-Cheng Zhong , Lei Chen , Dingping Li , Chao Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

We present a systematic study of the spin-resolved Josephson diode effect (JDE) in strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets (sFM) coupled to singlet superconductors (SC) via ferromagnetic insulating interfaces (FI). All metallic parts are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-03 Niklas L. Schulz , Danilo Nikolić , Matthias Eschrig

We investigate electron cooling based on a clean normal-metal/spin-filter/superconductor junction. Due to the suppression of the Andreev reflection by the spin-filter effect, the cooling power of the system is found to be extremely higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Shiro Kawabata , Andrey S. Vasenko , Asier Ozaeta , F. Sebastian Bergeret , Frank W. J. Hekking

We study spin-dependent electronic transport across ferromagnet/superconductor ballistic junctions modeled using tight-binding Hamiltonians with s, p and d orbitals and material-specific parameters. We show that by accurately modeling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Taddei , S. Sanvito , C. J. Lambert

We present a quaternion inspired formalism specifically developed to evaluate the intensity of the electrical current that traverses a single molecule connected to two semi-infinite electrodes as the applied external bias is varied. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Augusto C. L. Moreira , Celso P. de Melo

We demonstrate that information can be transmitted and processed with pure spin currents in silicon. Fe/Al2O3 tunnel barrier contacts are used to produce significant electron spin polarization in the silicon, generating a spin current which…

Time-reversal symmetric charge and spin transport through a molecule comprising two-orbital channels and connected to two leads is analyzed. It is demonstrated that spin-resolved currents are generated when spin-flip processes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We propose that a magnetic quantum wire composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be used as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Unlike the two-terminal device, in which the time-reversal invariant spin-orbit interaction alone cannot polarize the spins, such a polarization can be generated when electrons from one source reservoir flow into two (or more) separate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Shlomi Matityahu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

Molecular nanomagnets show clear signatures of coherent behavior and have a wide variety of effective low-energy spin Hamiltonians suitable for encoding qubits and implementing spin-based quantum information processing. At the nanoscale,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mircea Trif , Filippo Troiani , Dimitrije Stepanenko , Daniel Loss

We theoretically analyze spin filtering in two-terminal systems, induced by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), as a possible origin of the ``chirality-induced spin selectivity'' (CISS) effect observed experimentally in chiral molecules, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Takemitsu Kato , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony