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When the dimensions of structures shrink to the order of the inelastic mean free path of the energy-carrying quasi-particles, the character of energy transport changes from diffusive to ballistic. However, the point of transition remains a…

This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For the first time this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight in a very direct way into the time scales of microscopic interactions that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 J. Walowski , M. Münzenberg

We study the dynamics of a tracer particle (TP) on a comb lattice populated by randomly moving hard-core particles in the dense limit. We first consider the case where the TP is constrained to move on the backbone of the comb only, and, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-02 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , A. Sarracino , R. Voituriez

The dispersion law of transverse spin waves known in the Stoner-Hubbard model of itinerant ferromagnetism corresponds to that is well known in more broder and well controlled approach of Fermi-liquid theory. Making use the quantum-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Mineev

Focusing control of ultrashort pulsed beams is an important research topic, due to its impact to subsequent interaction with matter. In this work, we study the propagation near the focus of ultrashort laser pulses of ~25 fs duration under…

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We theoretically investigate topological spin transport of the magnon-polarons in bilayer magnet with two-dimensional square lattices. Our theory is motivated by recent reports on the van der Waals magnets which show the reversible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

We study the dynamics of vortex lines in Supercondutor/Ferromagnet/Superconductor (SFS) heterostructures at microwave frequencies. We have employed swept-frequency, Corbino-disk and resonant, dielectric-resonator techniques to obtain the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Torokhtii , C. Attanasio , C. Cirillo , E. A. Ilyina , N. Pompeo , S. Sarti , E. Silva

During the past years there has been renewed interest in the wide-bandgap II-VI semiconductor ZnO, triggered by promising prospects for spintronic applications. First, ferromagnetism was predicted for dilute magnetic doping. In…

Ultrafast two-dimensional spectroscopy utilizes correlated multiple light-matter interactions for retrieving dynamic features that may otherwise be hidden under the linear spectrum. Its extension to the terahertz regime of the…

The wide bandgap semiconductor ZnO is interesting for spintronic applications because of its small spin-orbit coupling implying a large spin coherence length. Utilizing vertical spin valve devices with ferromagnetic electrodes…

A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Qian , Ju Li , Xi Lin , Sidney Yip

A high frequency (111.2-420 GHz) electron spin resonance study of the inter-layer (perpendicular) spin diffusion as a function of pressure and temperature is presented in the conducting phases of the layered organic compounds,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-24 Á. Antal , T. Fehér , E. Tátrai-Szekeres , F. Fülöp , B. Náfrádi , L. Forró , A. Jánossy

In ferromagnetic metals, transverse spin currents are thought to be absorbed via dephasing -- i.e., destructive interference of spins precessing about the strong exchange field. Yet, due to the ultrashort coherence length of $\approx$1 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Youngmin Lim , Shuang Wu , David A. Smith , Christoph Klewe , Padraic Shafer , Satoru Emori

We theoretically investigate the steady-state transmission of continuous terahertz (THz) wave across a freestanding ferroelectric slab. Based on the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory of ferroelectrics and the coupled equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Taorui Chen , Bo Wang , Yujie Zhu , Shihao Zhuang , Long-Qing Chen , Jia-Mian Hu

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Electron transport in a finite one dimensional quantum spin chain (with ferromagnetic exchange) is studied within an $s-d$ exchange Hamiltonian. Spin transfer coefficients strongly depend on the sign of the $s-d$ exchange constant. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Avishai , Y. Tokura

We performed time- and polarization-resolved extreme ultraviolet momentum microscopy on topological Dirac semimetal candidate 1T-ZrTe$_2$. Excited states band mapping uncovers the previously inaccessible linear dispersion of the Dirac cone…

The copper fluoride $Cu_2F_5$ is a proposed stable compound that can be seen as a layered lattice of $S=1$ and $S=1/2$ sites, corresponding to copper ions. Intending to cast light on the transport properties of ferrimagnetic magnons, we use…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-25 P. G. de Oliveira , A. S. T. Pires

Laser-driven electron transport across a sample has garnered enormous attentions over several decades, because it potentially allows one to control spin transports in spintronics. But light is a transverse electromagnetic wave, how an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-23 Robert Meadows , Y. Xue , Nicholas Allbritton , G. P. Zhang