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We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in an in-plane magnetic field to be measured. A transverse focusing geometry is used to couple current from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Potok , J. A. Folk , C. M. Marcus , V. Umansky

Current-induced spin polarization (CISP) is rederived in ballistic spin-orbit-coupled electron systems, based on equilibrium statistical mechanics. A simple and useful picture is correspondingly proposed to help understand the CISP and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

Spin-dependent tunneling through an indirect bandgap barrier like the GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure along [001] direction is studied by the tight-binding method. The tunneling is characterized by the proportionality of the Dresselhaus…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-01 Titus Sandu , Athanasios Chantis , Radu Iftimie

A systematic investigation of spin injection behavior in Au/FM (FM = Fe and Ni) multilayers is performed using the superdiffusive spin transport theory. By exciting the nonmagnetic layer, the laser-induced hot electrons may transfer spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Wen-Tian Lu , Zhe Yuan , Xiaohong Xu

We established important relationships between entanglement measures and the order parameter (spin polarization) in nuclear spin systems controlled by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. Since spin polarization can be easily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

We propose a new mechanism of generating spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions dominated by nucleon degree of freedom. By incorporating the spin change in nucleon-nucleon scatterings based on the phase shift data together with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Rong-Jun Liu , Jun Xu , Yu-Gang Ma

We study a recently proposed modified Schr\"{o}dinger equation having an added nonlinear term. For the case where a stochastic term is added to the Hamiltonian, the fluctuating response is found to resemble the process of thermalization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Eyal Buks

In several situations of interest, spin polarization may be generated far from the boundaries of a sample by nonlinear effects of an electric current, even when such a generation is forbidden by symmetry in the linear regime. We present an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-02 Ilya G. Finkler , Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We predict that the flow of unpolarized current in electron-doped GaAs and InP at room temperature is unstable at high electric fields to the dynamic formation of spin-polarized current pulses. Spin-polarized current is spontaneously…

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

We show that the parallel magnetic field-induced increase in the critical electron density for the Anderson transition in a strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system is caused by the effects of exchange and correlations. If the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

We report calculations of spin relaxation dynamics of two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction at the edge region. It is found that the relaxation of spin polarization near the edge is more slow than relaxation in the bulk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuriy V. Pershin

Recently, Seebeck coefficients of ferromagnetic conductors are found to be spin-dependent. However straightforward method of accurately determining its spin polarization is still to be developed. Here, we have derived a linear dependence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-29 C. Fang , C. H. Wan , Z. H. Yuan , H. Wu , Q. T. Zhang , L. B. Mo , X. Zhang , X. F. Han

By starting with the Maxwell theory of electromagnetism, we study the change of polarization state of light transmitting through optically anisotropic media. The basic idea is to reduce the Maxwell equation to the Schroedinger like equation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiroshi Kuratsuji , Shouhei Kakigi

The polarization produced by the relative displacement of the potentials trapping two spin species of a dilute Fermi gas with $N_\ua=N_\da$ is calculated at unitarity by assuming phase separation between the superfluid and a spin polarized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-18 A. Recati , I. Carusotto , C. Lobo , S. Stringari

We attract attention to the fact that the ultimate (shot-noise-limited) polarimetric sensitivity can be enhanced by orders of magnitude leaving the photon flux incident onto the photodetector on the same low level. This opportunity is of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 P. Glasenapp , A. Greilich , I. I. Ryzhov , V. S. Zapasskii , D. R. Yakovlev , G. G. Kozlov , M. Bayer

We propose a simple analytic representation of the correlation energy for the two-dimensional electron gas, as a function of the density and the spin polarization. This new parametrization includes most of the known high- and low- density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Claudio Attaccalite , Saverio Moroni , Giovanni B. Bachelet

Pure spin currents are measured in micron-wide channels of GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Spins are injected and detected using quantum point contacts, which become spin polarized at high magnetic field. High sensitivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Frolov , A. Venkatesan , W. Yu , W. Wegscheider , J. A. Folk

Spin polarization induced by a temperature gradient (heat-current) in a magnetized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically within the linear response theory. Using the Matsubara…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

We investigate the spin-polarization of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. The conductance spectra are analyzed using a recent theoretical model that accounts for momentum- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 S. Piano , R. Grein , C. J. Mellor , K. Vyborny , R. Campion , M. Wang , M. Eschrig , B. L. Gallagher