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Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

We investigate the spin accumulation effect in eccentric semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and threaded by a magnetic flux. Due to the finite eccentricity, the spin polarization induced at the borders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. E. Segura , M. J. Sánchez

We present a theoretical model that describes electrical spin-detection at a ferromagnet/semiconductor interface. We show that the sensitivity of the spin detector has strong bias dependence which, in the general case, is dramatically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 Athanasios N. Chantis , Darryl L. Smith

This study aims to investigate the interplay between chiral-induced spin-orbit coupling along the screw axis and antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling (ASOC) in the normal plane within a chiral crystal, using both general model analysis and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Yinong Zhou , Dmitri Leo M. Cordova , Griffin M. Milligan , Maxx Q. Arguilla , Ruqian Wu

Life as we know it is homochiral, but the origins of biological homochirality on early Earth remain elusive. Shallow closed-basin lakes are a plausible prebiotic environment on early Earth, and most are expected to have significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 S. Furkan Ozturk , Dimitar D. Sasselov

Two-dimensional hexagonal and oblique lattices were investigated theoretically with the aim of observing differences in the spin expectation values between chiral and achiral systems. The spinresolved band structures were derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 N. K. Lewis , P. J. Durham , W. R. Flavell , E. A. Seddon

Recent observations of considerable spin polarization in photoemission from metal surfaces through monolayers of chiral molecules were followed by several efforts to rationalize the results as the effect of spin-orbit interaction that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joel Gersten , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Abraham Nitzan

The spin polarization (P) of high-density InSb two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) has been measured using both parallel and tilted magnetic fields. P is found to exhibit a superlinear increase with the total field B. This P-B…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-18 K. F. Yang , H. W. Liu , T. D. Mishima , M. B. Santos , K. Nagase , Y. Hirayama

Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

We report chirality-induced current-in-plane magnetoresistance (CIP-MR) in chiral molecule/ferromagnetic metal bilayer at room temperature. The previously reported chiralityinduced current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR)…

The ballistic spin-filter effect from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor has theoretically been studied with an intention of detecting the spin polarizability of density of states in FM layer at a higher energy level. The physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Y. H. Li

The electrical injection of spin polarized electrons in a semiconductor can be achieved in principle by driving a current from a ferromagnetic metal, where current is known to be significantly spin polarized, into the semiconductor via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Filip , B. H. Hoving , F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

A general mechanism for anesthetic function is not fully understood. Similarly, the mechanism by which xenon, a chemically inert noble gas, can produce anesthetic effects remains ambiguous. However, a previous study reported a surprisingly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Allan Wang , S. Furkan Ozturk

We report here on anisotropy of spin polarization obtained in lateral all-semiconductor all-electrical spin injection devices, employing $p^{+}-$(Ga,Mn)As/$n^{+}-$GaAs Esaki diode structures as spin aligning contacts, resulting from the…

We demonstrate that due to their spin-orbit interaction carbon nanotube cross-junctions have attractive spin projective properties for transport. First, we show that the junction can be used as a versatile spin filter as a function of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Francesco Mazza , Bernd Braunecker , Patrik Recher , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

Chiral molecular structures enable time-odd pseudotensor that controls correlations between photoelectron spin and molecular orientation in photoionization (arXiv:2505.22433). We show that chiral structures also support time-even…

A longstanding goal of research in semiconductor spintronics is the ability to inject, modulate, and detect electron spin in a single device. A simple prototype consists of a lateral semiconductor channel with two ferromagnetic contacts,…

Altermagnets host intrinsically chirality-splitting spin waves, which offer an ideal platform for chirality-based computing with low energy consumption and fast dynamics. However, achieving precise and efficient control over spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Tong Li , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Jian-Tao Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

Electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized electrons is demonstrated for the first time in a single wafer, all-semiconductor, GaAs-based lateral spintronic device, employing p+-(Ga,Mn)As/n+-GaAs ferromagnetic Esaki diodes as spin…