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Graphene is an ideal material for spin transport as very long spin relaxation times and lengths can be achieved even at room temperature. However, electrical spin injection is challenging due to the conductivity mismatch problem. Spin…

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The dynamics of spin at finite temperature in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain was found to be superdiffusive in numerous recent numerical and experimental studies. Theoretical approaches to this problem have emphasized the role of nonabelian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-20 Pieter W. Claeys , Austen Lamacraft , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman

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

We use lateral spin valves with varying interface resistance to measure non-local Hanle effect in order to extract the spin-diffusion length of the non-magnetic channel. A general expression that describes spin injection and transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Estitxu Villamor , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

Graphene is a promising substrate for future spintronics devices owing to its remarkable electronic mobility and low spin-orbit coupling. Hanle precession in spin valve devices is commonly used to evaluate the spin diffusion and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Emile Fourneau , Alejandro V. Silhanek , Ngoc D. Nguyen

Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most promising material for industrial-scale applications based on graphene monolayers. It also holds promise for spintronics; despite being polycrystalline, spin transport in CVD…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Aron W. Cummings , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Jean-Christophe Charlier , Stephan Roche

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

We develop a comprehensive description of static and dynamic spin-transfer torque at interfaces between a normal metal and a magnetic material. Specific examples of the latter include ferromagnets, collinear and noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hector Ochoa

We study quantum charge transport in two-dimensional networks in the presence of a magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction. The interplay of the corresponding Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields leads to an intricate behavior of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 A. V. Poshakinskiy , L. E. Golub

Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin-orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious advantages for transporting spin information over long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose H. Garcia , Marc Vila , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

Spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions in the presence of spin diffusion is considered theoretically. Combining ballistic tunneling across the barrier and diffusive transport in the electrodes, we solve the spin dynamics equation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A Manchon , R. Matsumoto , H. Jaffres , J. Grollier

Graphene is a very promising material in spintronics due to both its high electric mobility and low intrinsic spin-obit coupling. Electronic spins can be injected from a ferromagnetic material through a tunnel contact into graphene owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Bin Yang , Winfried Teizer

We study the effects of the long-range disorder potential and warping on the conductivity and mobility of graphene ribbons using the Landauer formalism and the tight-binding p-orbital Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that as the length of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. W. Klos , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel

The presence of edge channels in the quantum Hall regime leads to dissipationless charge transport over long distances. When graphene is interfaced with a magnetic material, the exchange interaction lifts the Landau levels spin degeneracy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Maxen Cosset-Chéneau , Boxuan Yang , Bart J. van Wees

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

Layered materials are promising candidates for spintronic applications due to their unique electronic structures and spin transport properties. However, the strong anisotropic conductivity inherent in these materials complicates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Ryoya Nakamura , Futo Tokuda , Yoshinobu Ono , Nan Jiang , Hideaki Sakai , Masayuki Ochi , Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yasuhiro Niimi

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

Superfluid spin transport $-$ dissipationless transport of spin $-$ is theoretically studied in a ferromagnetic insulator with easy-plane anisotropy. We consider an open geometry where spin current is injected into the ferromagnet from one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yu-Hsuan Lin , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira , Miguel A. Cazalilla