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We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Spin-to-charge current interconversions are widely exploited for the generation and detection of pure spin currents and are key ingredients for future spintronic devices including spin-orbit torques and spin-orbit logic circuits. In case of…

Manipulation of the magnetization in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic bilayers via the spin-orbit torque requires high spin Hall conductivity of the heavy metal. We measure inverse spin Hall voltage using a co-planar wave-guide based broadband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Akash Kumar , Rajni Bansal , Sujeet Chaudhary , P. K. Muduli

We study the spin conductivity of the bulk states of three-dimensional topological insulators within Kubo formalism. Spin Hall effect is the generation of the spin current that is perpendicular to the applied voltage. In the case of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 R. S. Akzyanov

Antiferromagnetic conductors with suitably broken spatial symmetries host spin-polarized bands, which lead to transport phenomena commonly observed in metallic ferromagnets. In bulk materials, it is the given crystalline structure that…

We predict the very large spin Hall effect in type-II superconductors which mechanism is drastically different from the previously known ones. We find that in the flux-flow regime the spin is transported by the spin-polarized Abrikosov…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-12 Artjom Vargunin , Mikhail Silaev

The spin field effect transistor envisioned by Datta and Das opens a gateway to spin information processing. Although the coherent manipulation of electron spins in semiconductors is now possible, the realization of a functional spin field…

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

The search for superconducting systems exhibiting nonreciprocal transport and, specifically, the diode effect, has proliferated in recent years. This trend encompasses a wide variety of systems, including planar hybrid structures,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , Sebastian Bergeret

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

An analytical expression is derived for the conductance modulation of a ballistic two dimensional Datta-Das Spin Field Effect Transistor (SPINFET) as a function of gate voltage. Using this expression, we show that the recently observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Bandyopadhyay

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We discuss the transport properties of a quantum spin-Hall insulator with sizable Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a disk geometry. The presence of topologically protected helical edge states allows for the control and manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 R. Battilomo , N. Scopigno , C. Ortix

Two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in the proximity of a superconductor and a magnetic insulator have recently been considered as promising candidates to realize topological superconducting phases. Here we discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teemu Ojanen , Takuya Kitagawa

The longitudinal current in a three-dimensional conductor is accompanied by transverse magnetic field in a specimen bulk. The absence of the transverse current in a sample bulk requires a nonzero Hall electric field in transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 M. V. Cheremisin

A proposal of electrically controlled spin transistor in helical magnetic field is presented. In the proposed device, the transistor action is driven by the Landau-Zener transitions that lead to a backscattering of spin polarized electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski

We investigate equilibrium (background), linear, and nonlinear spin currents in two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit coupled altermagnet systems, using a modified spin current operator that includes anomalous velocity from non-zero Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Priyadarshini Kapri

Spin-orbit coupling provides a versatile tool to generate and to manipulate the spin degree of freedom in low-dimensional semiconductor structures. The spin Hall effect, where an electrical current drives a transverse spin current and…

When a spin-splitting field is introduced to a thin film superconductor, the spin currents polarized along the field couples to energy currents that can only decay via inelastic scattering. We study spin and energy injection into such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Jacob Linder