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We study transport properties of hexagonal zigzag graphene quantum rings connected to semi-infinite nanoribbons. Open two-fold symmetric structures support localized states that can be traced back to those existing in the isolated six-fold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 D. Faria , R. Carrillo-Bastos , N. Sandler , A. Latgé

The long spin-diffusion length, spin-lifetimes and excellent optical absorption coefficient of graphene provide an excellent platform for building opto-electronic devices as well as spin-based logic in a nanometer regime. In this study, by…

We investigate spin effects in transport across fully interacting, finite size graphene armchair nanoribbons (ACNs) contacted to collinearly spin-polarized leads. In such systems, the presence of short ranged Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 Sonja Koller , Leonhard Mayrhofer , Milena Grifoni

Based on the solution of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation discretized for a ferromagnetic chain subject to a uniform temperature gradient, we present a detailed numerical study of the spin dynamics with a focus particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-15 S. R. Etesami , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Sukhov , J. Berakdar

We investigate the magnetization dynamics in nanomagnet vertices often found in artificial spin ices. Our analysis involves creating a simplified model that depicts edge magnetization using magnetic charges. We utilize the model to explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Samuel D. Slöetjes , Matías P. Grassi , Vassilios Kapaklis

An important contribution to the thermoelectric and spin-caloric transport properties in magnetic materials at elevated temperatures is the formation of a spin-disordered state due to local moment fluctuations. This effect has not been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Roman Kováčik , Phivos Mavropoulos , Stefan Blügel

In this paper, we study the near-field radiative energy, linear-momentum, and angular-momentum transfer from a current-biased graphene to nanoparticles. The electric current through the graphene sheet induces nonequilibrium fluctuations,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-19 Huimin Zhu , Gaomin Tang , Lei Zhang , Jun Chen

We study ballistic thermal transport in Heisenberg spin chain with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interactions at low temperatures. Explicit expressions for transmission coefficients are derived for thermal transport in a periodic spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-16 Lifa Zhang , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Recent measurements revealed an anomalous Coulomb drag in graphene, hinting at new physics at charge neutrality. The anomalous drag is explained by a new mechanism based on energy transport, which involves interlayer energy transfer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin C. W. Song , Dmitry A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov

In this paper we employ non equilibrium thermodynamics of fluxes and forces to describe magnetization and heat transport. By the theory we are able to identify the thermodynamic driving force of the magnetization current as the gradient of…

We show how hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons at small concentrations can open new venues towards carbon-based spintronics applications regardless of any especific edge termination or passivation of the nanoribbons. Density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Soriano , F. Muñoz-Rojas , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

Spin-transfer is a typical spintronics effect that allows a ferromagnetic layer to be switched by spin-injection. Most of the experimental results about spin transfer are described on the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 J. -E. Wegrowe , C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin

We develop a Green's function formalism for spin transport through heterostructures that contain metallic leads and insulating ferromagnets. While this formalism in principle allows for the inclusion of various magnonic interactions, we…

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Using exact diagonalization, Monte-Carlo, and mean-field techniques, characteristic temperature scales for ferromagnetic order are discussed for the Ising and the classical anisotropic Heisenberg model on finite lattices in one and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 E. Y. Vedmedenko , N. Mikuszeit , T. Stapelfeldt , R. Wieser , M. Potthoff , A. Lichtenstein , R. Wiesendanger

The trigonal zigzag nanodisk with size $N$ has $N$ localized spins. We investigate its thermodynamical properties with and without external leads. Leads are made of zigzag graphene nanoribbons or ordinary metallic wires. There exists a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 Motohiko Ezawa

We consider the thermodynamic properties of the quasi-two-dimensional spin-half Heisenberg ferromagnet on the stacked square and the stacked kagom\'e lattices by using the spin-rotation-invariant Green's function method. We calculate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Schmalfuß , J. Richter , D. Ihle

We present a theoretical analysis of the nonlinear bias and temperature dependence of current-voltage characteristics of a spin-valve device which is formed by connecting a quantum dot to two ferromagnetic electrodes whose magnetic moments…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We theoretically investigate the Coulomb drag between the edge states of two quantum spin Hall systems. Using an interacting theory of the one-dimensional helical edge modes, we show that the drag vanishes at second order in the inter-edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-29 Vladimir A. Zyuzin , Gregory A. Fiete

Creating, manipulating and detecting spin polarized carriers are the key elements of spin based electronics. Most practical devices use a perpendicular geometry in which the spin currents, describing the transport of spin angular momentum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Abraham Slachter , Frank Lennart Bakker , Jean-Paul Adam , Bart Jan van Wees

We perform projective quantum Monte Carlo simulations of zigzag graphene nanoribbons within a realistic model with long-range Coulomb interactions. Increasing the relative strength of nonlocal interactions with respect to the on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-29 Marcin Raczkowski , Fakher F. Assaad