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We show that electrons recolliding with the ionic core upon tunnel ionization of noble gas atoms driven by a strong circularly polarized laser field in combination with a counter-rotating second harmonic are spin polarized and that their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David Ayuso , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Felipe Morales , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

Spin injection and detection in silicon is a difficult problem, in part because the weak spin-orbit coupling and indirect gap preclude using standard optical techniques. We propose two ways to overcome this difficulty, and illustrate their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin

Arrays of 10 nm-diameter point contacts of exchange-coupled spin-majority/spin-minority ferromagnetic metals, integrated into infrared-terahertz range photon resonators, are fabricated and measured electrically and optically. Giant,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 V. Korenivski , A. Iovan , A. Kadigrobov , R. I. Shekhter

Radiative polarization of electrons and positrons through the Sokolov-Ternov effect is important for applications in high-energy physics. Radiative spin-polarization is a manifestation of quantum radiation reaction affecting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 D. Seipt , D. Del Sorbo , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

Ultrafast demagnetization of magnetic layers pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse is accompanied by a nonthermal spin-polarized current of hot electrons. These spin currents are studied here theoretically in a spin valve with noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

In the field of spin-controlled semiconductor lasers, massive effort has been focused upon materials with long spin relaxation times (~ns). In contrast, we demonstrate room-temperature spin-polarized ultrafast pulsed lasing in InGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Feng-kuo Hsu , Yi-Shan Lee , Sheng-Di Lin , Chih-Wei Lai

We discuss a possible mechanism of the spin-transfer induced oscillations of a vortex in the free layer of spin-valve nanostructures, in which the polarizer layer has a planar magnetization. We demonstrate that if such planar polarizer is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , J. Grollier , N. Locatelli , Ya. V. Gorbunov , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros

By investigating thoroughly the tunable behavior of coupled modes, we highlight how it provides new means to handle the properties of spin transfer nano-oscillators. We first demonstrate that the main features of the microwave signal…

We present a novel approach to precisely synthesize arbitrary polarization states of light with a high modulation bandwidth. Our approach consists of superimposing two laser light fields with the same wavelength, but with opposite circular…

Linear and nonlinear optical response of WSe$_{2}$ monolayer is investigated by two-dimensional Maxwell plus time-dependent density functional theory with spin-orbit interaction. By applying the chiral resonant pulses, the electron dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-04 Arqum Hashmi , Shunsuke Yamada , Atsushi Yamada , Kazuhiro Yabana , Tomohito Otobe

Terahertz (THz) sciences and technologies have contributed to a rapid development of a wide range of applications and expanded the frontiers in fundamental science. Spintronic terahertz emitters offer conceptual advantages since the spin…

The generation of non-equilibrium electron spin polarization, spin transport, and spin detection are fundamental in many quantum devices. We demonstrate that a lattice of magnetic nanodots enhances the electron spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Tim Anlauf , Marta Prada , Stefan Freercks , Bojan Bosnjak , Robert Frömter , Jonas Sichau , Hans Peter Oepen , Lars Tiemann , Robert H. Blick

The charge and spin response of a spin--polarized electron gas is investigated including terms beyond the random phase approximation. We evaluate the charge response, the longitudinal and transverse spin response, and the mixed spin--charge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kyung-Soo Yi , J. J. Quinn

We propose a scalable and practical implementation of spin amplification which does not require individual addressing nor a specially tailored spin network. We have demonstrated a gain of 140 in a solid-state nuclear spin system of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Makoto Negoro , Kenichiro Tateishi , Akinori Kagawa , Masahiro Kitagawa

The equations-of-motion for the density matrix are derived in a multiband model to describe the response of semiconductors (bulk or quantum well structures) under optical excitation with arbitrary polarization. The multiband model used,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 U. Rössler

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong laser facilities, limiting their accessibility and broad…