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Spin filtering is an essential operation in spintronics that allows creation and detection of spin polarized carriers. Transition metal ferromagnets are used as spin filters in most cases, though their spin filtering efficiency is only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 K. M. Alam , Sandipan Pramanik

We propose an ultrafast way to generate spin chirality and spin current in a class of multiferroic magnets using a terahertz circularly polarized laser. Using the Floquet formalism for periodically driven systems, we show that it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-04 Masahiro Sato , Shintaro Takayoshi , Takashi Oka

The transport property of a lateral two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor electron gas under a spatially periodic magnetic field is investigated theoretically. We find that the electron Fermi velocity along the modulation direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng

Controlling spin currents in topological insulators (TIs) is crucial for spintronics but challenged by the robustness of their chiral edge states, which impedes the spin manipulation required for devices like spin-field effect transistors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena , Matías Berdakin , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

The transmission of a pump laser resonant with the lower polariton branch of a semiconductor microcavity is shown to be highly dependent on the degree of circular polarization of the pump. Spin dependent anisotropy of polariton-polariton…

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an {\alpha}-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with spin polarization of the transmitted electrons. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nguyen T. N. Ha , L. Rasabathina , O. Hellwig , A. Sharma , G. Salvan , S. Yochelis , Y. Paltiel , L. T. Baczewski , C. Tegenkamp

We explicitly account for electron-electron interactions when modeling low-dimensional helical organic molecules. We show that competition between various hopping channels, together with interaction-induced double- and superexchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Jacek Herbrych , Maria Daghofer

While intense laser irradiation and moir\'e engineering have independently proven powerful for tuning material properties on demand in condensed matter physics, their combination remains unexplored. Here we exploit tilted laser illumination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Hernan L. Calvo , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Matias Berdakin

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity provides a fertile ground for engineering exotic topological phases, while dynamical control via periodic driving offers a unique avenue to access quantum states that are inaccessible in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Xiaolin Wan , Zheng Qin , Fangyang Zhan , Junjie Zeng , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Chiral structures, breaking spatial inversion symmetry, exhibit non-zero chiroptical activity (COA) due to the interaction between their electric and magnetic responses under external electromagnetic fields, an effect that is otherwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Solmar Varela , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Ernesto Medina , Vladimiro Mujica

Recent studies have demonstrated that magnetization switching in ferromagnets can be achieved through adsorbing chiral molecules on the surface without the need for current or external magnetic fields, offering a low-power mechanism for…

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

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

Nonlocal spin polarization phenomena are thoroughly investigated in the devices made of chiral metallic single crystals of CrNb$_3$S$_6$ and NbSi$_2$ as well as of polycrystalline NbSi$_2$. We demonstrate that simultaneous injection of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Hiroaki Shishido , Yuta Hosaka , Kenta Monden , Akito Inui , Taisei Sayo , Yusuke Kousaka , Yoshihiko Togawa

The Floquet state, which is a periodically and intensely light driven quantum state in solids, has been attracting attention as a novel state that is coherently controllable on an ultrafast time scale. An important issue has been to…

Optical orientation of carrier spins by circularly polarized light is the basis of spin physics in semiconductors. Here, we demonstrate strong optical orientation of 85\%, approaching the ultimate limit of unity, for excitons in…

We here present a variable-range hopping model to describe the chirality-induced spin selectivity along the DNA double helix. In this model, DNA is considered as a one-dimensional disordered system, where electrons are transported by chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ryotaro Sano , Takeo Kato

Here we emphasize once more the distinction between generating CISS (spin-charge current conversion) in a chiral system and detecting it as magnetoresistance in two-terminal electronic devices. We also highlight important differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

Recent studies have attracted widespread attention on magnet-superconductor hybrid systems with emergent topological superconductivity. Here, we present the Floquet engineering of realistic two-dimensional topological nodal-point…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-12 Zhen Ning , Junjie Zeng , Da-Shuai Ma , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Material systems that exhibit tunable spin-selective conductivity are key components of spintronic technologies. Here we demonstrate a novel type of spin-selective transport, based on the unusual Landau level (LL) sequence observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 En-Min Shih , Qianhui Shi , Daniel Rhodes , Bumho Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kun Yang , James Hone , Cory R. Dean