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We show that the propagation of spin polarized carriers may be dramatically affected by {\em inhomogeneous} electric fields. Surprisingly, the spin diffusion length is found to strongly depend on the sign and magnitude of electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

We formulate a model of a semiconductor Quantum Dot laser with injection of spin-polarized electrons. As compared to higher-dimensionality structures, the Quantum-Dot-based active region is known to improve laser properties, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 Rafał Oszwałdowski , Christian Gøthgen , Igor Žutić

The equations for spin evolution of a particle in a storage ring are obtained considering contributions from the tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the particle along with the contributions from spin rotation and birefringence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Baryshevsky

Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions with ultrashort pulsed bi-chromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for the electron distribution allows us to simulate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Daniel Seipt , Dario Del Sorbo , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alec G. R. Thomas

Circularly polarized laser pulses that excite electron-hole pairs across the band gap of (III,Mn)V ferromagnetic semiconductors can be used to manipulate and to study collective magnetization dynamics. The initial spin orientation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fernández-Rossier , Alvaro S. Núñez , M. Abolfath , A. H. MacDonald

We formulate an analytical model for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with injection (pump) of spin-polarized electrons. Our results for two different modes of carrier recombination allow for a systematic analysis of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Gothgen , Rafal Oszwaldowski , Athos Petrou , Igor Zutic

The spin polarization of photoelectrons induced by an intense linearly polarized laser field is investigated using numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in companion with our analytic treatment via the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Pei-Lun He , Zhao-Han Zhang , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

In the optical pumping systems based on the pump-probe arrangement, the spin polarization of the atoms is generally monitored utilizing the probe laser beam, in which way an extra perturbation must be introduced and thus affects the normal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Jiancheng Fang , Rujie Li , Lihong Duan , Wenfeng Fan , Liwei Jiang

The use of femtosecond lasers to introduce controlled stress states has recently been demonstrated in silica glass. We use this technique, in combination with chemical etching, to generate and control stress-induced birefringence over a…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ben McMillen , Christos Athanasiou , Yves Bellouard

Similar to light polarization that is selected by a superposition of optical basis, electron spin direction can be controlled through a superposition of spin basis. We investigate such a spin interference occurring in photoemission of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , Ryo Noguchi , Ayumi Harasawa , Shik Shin , Takeshi Kondo , Fumio Komori

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

A spin current has novel linear and second-order nonlinear optical effects due to its symmetry properties. With the symmetry analysis and the eight-band microscopic calculation we have systematically investigated the interaction between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 Jing Wang , Sheng-Nan Ji , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

We provide a theory of laser-induced interaction between spins localized by impurity centers in a semiconductor host. By solving exactly the problem of two localized spins interacting with one itinerant exciton, an analytical expression for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 C. Piermarocchi , G. F. Quinteiro

Manipulating the spin polarization of electron beams using light is highly desirable but exceedingly challenging, as the approaches proposed in previous studies using free-space light usually require enormous laser intensities. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We show that ionization of noble gas atoms by strong infrared circularly polarized laser field under standard exerimental conditions can yield electrons with up to 100% spin polarization in energy resolved measurements. Spin polarization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Ingo Barth , Olga Smirnova

We study analytically the polarization behaviour of directional couplers composed of birefringent waveguides, showing that they can induce polarization transformations that depend on the specific input-output path considered. On the basis…

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

With increasing laser peak power, the generation and manipulation of high-power laser pulses becomes a growing challenge for conventional solid-state optics due to their limited damage threshold. As a result, plasma-based optical components…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Xiaolong Zheng , Suming Weng , Zhe Zhang , Hanghang Ma , Min Chen , Paul McKenna , Zhengming Sheng

We introduce the concept of a spintronic effective mass for spin-polarized carriers in semiconductor structures, which arises from the strong spin-polarization dependence of the renormalized effective mass in an interacting spin-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ying Zhang , S. Das Sarma