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The recent experiment [R. Nakajima, et al., Nature 613, 479 (2023)] has reported a pair of oppositely polarized spins under an alternating electric current in a superconductor with a chiral structure. However, these behaviors cannot be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Mamoru Matsuo , Takehito Yokoyama

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

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

The covariant Dirac equation and its solutions show that rotation and acceleration can be used to generate and control spin currents.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Giorgio Papini

We report on experimental observations of coexistence and interactions between nonlinear states with different polarizations in a passive Kerr resonator driven at a single carrier frequency. Using a fiber ring resonator with adjustable…

The generation of spin currents and their application to the manipulation of magnetic states is fundamental to spintronics. Of particular interest are chiral antiferromagnets that exhibit properties typical of ferromagnetic materials even…

Superconductivity with spin-polarized Cooper pairs is known to emerge by combining conventional spinless superconductors with materials that have spin-dependent interactions, such as magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. This enables a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-23 Sigrid Aunsmo , Jacob Linder

We investigate the steady states of a lossy array of nonlinear optical resonators that are driven by lasers and interact via mutual photon tunneling. For weak nonlinearities, we find two-mode squeezing of polaritons in modes whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael J. Hartmann

Spin current, i.e. the flow of spin angular momentum or magnetic moment, has recently attracted much attention as the promising alternative for charge current with better energy efficiency. Genuine spin current is generally carried by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Seki , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , K. Shibata , M. Kubota , R. Takagi , F. Kagawa , M. Kawasaki , G. Tatara , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura

We have developed a general theory for a parametric pump consisting of a nonmagnetic system with two ferromagnetic leads whose magnetic moments orient at an angle $\theta$ with respect to each other. In this theory, the leads can maintain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Junling , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

Using the wave nature of the electrons, we demonstrate that a transverse spin current can be generated simply by the diffraction through a single slit in the spin-orbital coupling system of the two-dimensional electron gas. The diffracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Chyh-Hong Chern , Cheng-Ju Lin

It is well-known that the nonlinear coupling between a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting oscillator or optical cavity can be used to generate a Kerr-nonlinearity for the cavity mode. We show that the strength of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Jie-Qiao Liao , Kurt Jacobs , Franco Nori , Raymond W. Simmonds

We study the nonlinear magnon spin current induced by an ac electric field under light irradiation in collinear antiferromagnets with broken inversion symmetry. For linearly polarized light, we find that a dc spin current appears through…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-03 Kosuke Fujiwara , Sota Kitamura , Takahiro Morimoto

Theoretical study is performed of a single-mode polariton system with linear coupling of spin components. When combined with an ordinary two-particle interaction, the spin coupling involves a spontaneous symmetry breaking accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 S. S. Gavrilov

We investigate here how the current flows over a bilayer graphene in the presence of an external electric field perpendicularly applied (biased bilayer). Charge density polarization between layers in these systems is known to create a layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira

Spin effects in a normal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in lateral contact with a 2D region with spin-orbit interaction are studied. The peculiarity of this system is the presence of spin-dependent scattering of electrons from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

In the framework of phenomenological model we consider dynamics of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) in the presence of spin-polarised current. The model is based on the assumption that AFM spins are localised and spin torque is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-16 H. Gomonay , V. Loktev

We examine the spin current generated by quantum dots embedded in an optical microcavity. The dots are connected to leads, which allow electrons to tunnel into and out of the dot. The spin current is generated by spin flip transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ivana Djuric , Chris P. Search

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

We investigate the dynamics of two coupled vortices driven by spin transfer. We are able to independently control with current and perpendicular field, and to detect, the respective chiralities and polarities of the two vortices. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 N. Locatelli , V. V. Naletov , J. Grollier , G. de Loubens , V. Cros , C. Deranlot , C. Ulysse , G. Faini , O. Klein , A. Fert