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The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

We examine the mechanical properties of graphene devices stretched on flexible elastomer substrates. Using atomic force microscopy, transport measurements, and mechanics simulations, we show that micro-rips form in the graphene during the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 J. Henry Hinnefeld , Stephen T. Gill , Shuze Zhu , William J. Swanson , Teng Li , Nadya Mason

In this work, the spin wave calculations were carried out using the Heisenberg Hamiltonian to study the allowed spin waves of zigzag and armchair edged stripes for ferromagnetic nanodots arrayed in a 2D honeycomb lattice \cite{Selim2011}.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Maher Ahmed

Graphene is promising as a host material for electron spin qubits because of its predicted potential for long coherence times. In armchair graphene nanoribbons (aGNRs) a small bandgap is opened, allowing for electrically gated quantum dots,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

The aim of this work is to describe the spin magnetization of graphene with Rashba spinorbit coupling and Zeeman effect. It is shown that the magnetization depends critically on the spin-orbit coupling l that is controlled with an external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-28 Federico Escudero , Lucas Sourrouille , Juan Sebastián Ardenghi , Paula Jasen

Electric control over magnetic interactions at the level of individual spins is relevant for a variety of quantum applications, such as qubits, memory and sensor functionality. We show here that spin lattices and magnon gaps can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Martin Tang Bruland , Jacob Linder

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

We consider a simple spin-membrane model for rippling in graphene. The model exhibits transitions from a flat but rippled membrane to a buckled one. At high temperature the transition is second order but it is first order at low temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Luis L. Bonilla , Antonio Prados

We introduce a novel strategy for controlling the temporal evolution of a quantum system at the nanoscale. Our method relies on the use of graphene plasmons, which can be electrically tuned in frequency by external gates. Quantum emitters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Darrick E. Chang , F. Javier García de Abajo

We discuss the role of spin-flip scattering of electrons from the magnetized edges in graphene nanoribbons. The spin-flip scattering is associated with strong fluctuations of the magnetic moments at the edge. Using the Boltzmann equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. K. Dugaev , M. I. Katsnelson

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

Noncollinear magnets are notoriously difficult to describe within first-principles approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT) because of the presence of low-lying spin excitations. At the level of ground-state calculations, several…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Miquel Royo , Massimiliano Stengel

We propose a mechanism to drive singlet-triplet spin transitions electrically, in a wide class of graphene nanostructures that present pairs of in-gap zero modes, localized at opposite sublattices. Examples are rectangular nanographenes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Ortiz , N. A. García-Martínez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

Numerical modelling of coherent spin relaxation in nanomagnets, formed by magnetic molecules of high spins, is accomplished. Such a coherent spin dynamics can be realized in the presence of a resonant electric circuit coupled to the magnet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. I. Yukalov , V. K. Henner , P. V. Kharebov

Graphene has attracted a great interest in material science due to its novel electronic structrues. Recently, magnetism discovered in graphene based systems opens the possibility of their spintronics application. This paper provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Erjun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Strong circularly polarized excitation opens up the possibility to generate and control effective magnetic fields in solid state systems, e.g., via the optical inverse Faraday effect or the phonon inverse Faraday effect. While these effects…

We experimentally study the electronic spin transport in hBN encapsulated single layer graphene nonlocal spin valves. The use of top and bottom gates allows us to control the carrier density and the electric field independently. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. H. D. Guimarães , P. J. Zomer , J. Ingla-Aynés , J. C. Brant , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

Temporal metamaterials, based on time-varying constitutive properties, offer new exciting possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore the capabilities of anisotropic temporal slabs, which rely on abrupt changes…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Carlo Rizza , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

Strain engineering of graphene takes advantage of one of the most dramatic responses of Dirac electrons enabling their manipulation via strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields. Numerous theoretically proposed devices, such as resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Banerjee , V. -H. Nguyen , T. Granzier-Nakajima , L. Pabbi , A. Lherbier , A. R. Binion , J. -C. Charlier , M. Terrones , E. W. Hudson