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Spin and orbital angular momentum of light plays a central role in quantum nanophotonics as well as topological electrodynamics. Here, we show that the thermal radiation from finite-sized bodies comprising of nonreciprocal magneto-optical…

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We formulate a theory of spin-transfer torques in antiferromagnets, which covers the small to large limits of the exchange coupling energy relative to the kinetic energy of the inter-sublattice electron dynamics. Our theory suggests a…

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The influence of the core polarization on the effective nuclear interaction of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the framework of the induced interaction theory. The strong isospin dependence of the density and spin density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 S. S. Zhang , L. G. Cao , U. Lombardo , P. Schuck

A coherent superposition of many nuclear spin states can be prepared and manipulated via the hyperfine interaction with the electronic spins by varying the Landau level filling factor through the gate voltage in appropriately designed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Maniv , Yu. A. Bychkov , I. D. Vagner

A microscopic theory of spin fluctuations of localized electrons interacting with optically cooled nuclear spin bath has been developed. Since nuclear spin temperature may stay low enough for macroscopically long time, the nuclear spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 D. S. Smirnov

The possibility of appearance of spin polarized states in symmetric and strongly asymmetric nuclear matter is analyzed within the framework of a Fermi liquid theory with the Skyrme effective interaction. The zero temperature dependence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-07-14 A. A. Isayev , J. Yang

We demonstrate methods to locally control the spin rotation of moving electrons in a GaAs channel. The Larmor frequency of optically-injected spins is modulated when the spins are dragged through a region of spin-polarized nuclei created at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. E. Nowakowski , G. D. Fuchs , S. Mack , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

We review our theoretical work on the dynamics of a localized electron spin interacting with an environment of nuclear spins. Our perturbative calculation is valid for arbitrary polarization p of the nuclear spin system and arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Coish , Daniel Loss

We investigate nuclear spin effects in a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime modeled by a weakly coupled array of interacting quantum wires. We show that the presence of hyperfine interaction between electron and nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tobias Meng , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We study a mechanism by which nuclear hyperpolarization due to the polarization transfer from a microwave-pulse-controlled electron spin is suppressed. From analytical and numerical calculations of the unitary dynamics of multiple nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Kento Sasaki , Eisuke Abe

In ferromagnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry, an applied electric field can control the ferromagnetic order parameters through the spin-orbit torque. The prototypical example is a bilayer heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-28 Fei Xue , Mark D. Stiles , Paul M. Haney

Strong magnetic field pulses associated with a relativistic electron bunch can imprint switching patterns in magnetic thin films that have uniaxial in-plane anisotropy. In experiments with Fe and FeCo alloy films the pattern shape reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Ioan Tudosa

We show how the spin-transfer torque generated by an ac voltage may be used to excite a paramagnetic resonance of an atomic spin deposited on a metallic surface. This mechanism is independent of the environment of the atom and may explain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Alexey M. Shakirov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Pedro Ribeiro

The spin torque exerted on a magnetic moment is a reaction to spin filtering when spin-polarized electrons interact with a thin ferromagnetic film. We show that, for certain conditions, a spin transmission resonance (STR) gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wonkee Kim , F. Marsiglio

In a magnetic multilayer, magnetizations can be manipulated by spin transfer torque. Both spin transfer torque and its reciprocal effect, spin pumping, are governed by spin mixing conductance. The magnitude of spin mixing conductance at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Adam B. Cahaya , Muhammad Aziz Majidi

Despite the potential advantages of information storage in antiferromagnetically coupled materials, it remains unclear whether one can control the magnetic moment orientation efficiently because of the cancelled magnetic moment. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Joseph Finley , Luqiao Liu

The manipulation of magnetization in a metallic ferromagnet by using optical helicity has been much attracted attention for future opto-spintronic devices. The optical helicity induced torques on the magnetization, {\it optical spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Satoshi Iihama , Kazuaki Ishibashi , Shigemi Mizukami

The ability to switch magnetic elements by spin-orbit-induced torques has recently attracted much attention for a path towards high-performance, non-volatile memories with low power consumption. Realizing efficient spin-orbit-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Shiheng Liang , Shuyuan Shi , Chuang-Han Hsu , Kaiming Cai , Yi Wang , Pan He , Yang Wu , Vitor M. Pereira , Hyunsoo Yang

To realize future spintronic applications with magnetic skyrmions -- topologically nontrivial swirling spin structures -- it is essential to achieve efficient writing and deleting capabilities of these quasi-particles. Electric-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Souvik Paul , Stefan Heinze

Understanding the coherent properties of electron spins driven by electric fields is crucial for their potential application in quantum-coherent nanoscience. In this work, we address two distinct driving mechanisms in electric-field driven…

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