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Fast domain wall motion in systems with perpendicular magnetization is necessary for many novel applications such as the racetrack memory, domain wall logic devices and artificial synapses. The domain wall speed has been greatly improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jingwei Long , Yumeng Yang , Shuyuan Shi , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang , Zhifeng Zhu

Exploiting current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) to manipulate the magnetic state of dipolar-coupled nanomagnet systems with in-plane magnetic anisotropy, such as artificial spin ices, provides a route to local,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 A. Pac , G. M. Macauley , J. A. Brock , A. Hrabec , A. Kurenkov , V. Raposo , E. Martinez , L. J. Heyderman

We report observation of a "non-volatile" converse magneto-electric effect in elliptical FeGa nanomagnets delineated on a piezoelectric PMN-PT substrate. The nanomagnets are initially magnetized with a magnetic field directed along their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Hasnain Ahmad , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

The Bloch Siegert shift, a hallmark correction arising from counter-rotating interactions in driven two-level systems, has an exact counterpart in binary lattices under static forcing, where it governs resonant long-range tunneling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ze-Sheng Xu , Liwei Duan , Rohan Yadgirkar , Andrea Cataldo , Adrian Iovan , Jun Gao , Ali W. Elshaari

Under a perfect periodic potential, the electric current density induced by a constant electric field may exhibit nontrivial oscillations, so-called Bloch oscillations, with an amplitude that remains nonzero in the large system size limit.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-04 Yankang Liu , Yohei Fuji , Haruki Watanabe

Spin orbit torque (SOT) provides an efficient way of generating spin current that promises to significantly reduce the current required for switching nanomagnets. However, an in-plane current generated SOT cannot deterministically switch a…

Magnetic vortex, as one of the most interesting magnetic solitons, has attracted great interests in the past two decades. A fast and reliable method to switch vortex polarity and chirality is one of the key issues for various applications.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Y. M. Luo , Y. Z. Wu , Z. H. Qian , J. H. Wen , H. Li , C. Q. Yu , L. Y. Zhu , T. J. Zhou

Quantum transport through an open periodic array of up to five dots is investigated in the presence of a magnetic field. The device spectrum exhibits clear features of the band structure of the corresponding one-dimensional artificial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-18 Panagiotis Drouvelis , Giorgos Fagas , Peter Schmelcher

The Bloch oscillating transistor (BOT) is a device, where single electron current through a normal tunnel junction can be used to enhance Cooper pair current in a mesoscopic Josephson junction leading to signal amplification. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Hassel , H. Seppa

As is well known, when an SU(2) operation acts on a two-level system, its Bloch vector rotates without change of magnitude. Considering a system composed of two two-level systems, it is proven that for a class of nonlocal interactions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mandilara , J. W. Clark , M. S. Byrd

Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) represent one of the most effective ways to manipulate the magnetization in spintronic devices. The orthogonal torque-magnetization geometry, the strong damping, and the large domain wall velocities…

We present a new technique for stabilizing and monitoring Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice under the action of a constant external force. In the proposed scheme, the atoms also interact with a unidirectionally…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Samoylova , N. Piovella , D. Hunter , G. R. M. Robb , R. Bachelard , Ph. W. Courteille

We utilize a hybrid quantum-classical equation of motion approach to investigate the spin dynamics and spin-transfer torque in a spin valve under bias voltage. We show that the interplay between localized classical magnetic moments and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Rudolf Smorka , Pavel Baláž , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

In this paper, we explore how to constructively manipulate qubits by rotating Bloch spheres. It is revealed that three-rotation and one-rotation Hamiltonian controls can be constructed to steer qubits when two tunable Hamiltonian controls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-17 Ming Zhang , Zairong Xi , Jia-Hua Wei

We report new oscillations of wavepackets in quantum walks subjected to electric fields, that decorate the usual Bloch-Zener oscillations of insulators. The number of turning points (or sub-oscillations) within one Bloch period of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 L. K. Upreti , C. Evain , S. Randoux , P. Suret , A. Amo , P. Delplace

Using bilayer films of $\beta$-Ta/Ni$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$, we fabricate structures consisting of two, three and four crossing ellipses which exhibit shape-induced bi-axial, tri-axial and quadro-axial magnetic anisotropy in the crossing area,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Shubhankar Das , Ariel Zaig , Moty Schultz , Lior Klein

Non-linear magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic nanoelements excited by the spin-polarized dc-current is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in solid state magnetism. Despite immense efforts, synchronization of oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergey Erokhin , Dmitry Berkov

Blob-filaments (or simply 'blobs') are coherent structures formed by turbulence and sustained by nonlinear processes in the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) of tokamaks and other magnetically confined plasmas. The dynamics of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 J. R. Myra , J. Cheng , S. E. Parker

Tendency to bifurcate can often be utilized to improve performance characteristics of amplifiers or even to build detectors. Bloch oscillating transistor is such a device. Here we show that bistable behaviour can be approached by tuning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Jayanta Sarkar , Antti Puska , Juha Hassel , Pertti J. Hakonen