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The spin polarization P of the transport current through the interface between superconducting Al and ferromagnetic Fe is determined by means of Andreev reflection at nanostructured point contacts. We observe a systematic decrease of P with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stokmaier , G. Goll , D. Weissenberger , C. Sürgers , H. v. Löhneysen

In materials with spin-momentum locked spin textures, such as Rashba states and topological surface states, the current-induced shift of the Fermi contour in the k space leads to spin polarization, known as the Edelstein effect, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xing-Guo Ye , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

We theoretically study electrical responses of magnetization in Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, possessing hedgehog type spin textures in momentum space. Because of this peculiar spin texture,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We investigate the evolution of spin polarization, spontaneous Hall angle (SHA), saturation magnetization and Curie temperature of $B2$-ordered Fe$_{60}$Al$_{40}$ thin films under varying antisite disorder, induced by Ne$^{+}$-ion…

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

We clarify that the antiferromagnetic order in the distorted tetrahedral quasi-one dimensional spin system induces electric polarizations. In this system, the effects of the low dimensionality and the magnetic frustration are expected to…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a phenomenon wherein chiral structures selectively determine the spin polarization of electron currents flowing through the material, has garnered significant attention due to its potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig

We present a theoretical study on the spin-dependent transport through a spin valve consisting of graphene sandwiched between two magnetic leads with an arbitrary orientation of the lead magnetization. No gate voltage is applied. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We investigate electronic transport through II-VI semiconductor resonant tunneling structures containing diluted magnetic impurities. Due to the exchange interaction between the conduction electrons and the impurities, there arises a giant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Charles Gould , Georg Schmidt , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Based on first-principles density functional calculations, a general approach for determining and analyzing the degree of spin polarization (P) in ferromagnets is presented. The approach employs the so-called tetrahedron method to evaluate…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Bahramy , P. Murugan , G. P. Das , Y. Kawazoe

We show that an initially unpolarized electron flow acquires spin polarization after passing through a lateral barrier in two-dimensional (2D) system with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) even if the current is directed normally to the barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Yurii Ya. Tkach , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Efficient injection of spin-polarized electrons into the conduction band of silicon is limited by the formation of a silicide at the ferromagnetic metal (FM)/silicon interface. In the present work, this "magnetically-dead" silicide (where…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Lai Zhao , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

We investigate theoretically the prospects for using a magnetic nanoelectromechanical single-electron tunneling (NEM-SET) device as an electronic spin filter. We find that strong magnetic exchange forces on the net spin of the mobile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Robert I. Shekhter , Artem Pulkin , Mats Jonson

We show that the interplay between chiral tunneling and spin-momentum locking of helical surface states leads to spin amplification and filtering in a 3D Topological Insulator (TI). Chiral tunneling across a TI pn junction allows normally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

A collective excitation of the spin structure in a magnetic insulator can transmit spin-angular momentum with negligible dissipation. This quantum of a spin wave, introduced more than nine decades ago, has always been manipulated through…

Current-induced magnetization excitation is a core phenomenon for next-generation magnetic nanodevices, and has been attributed to the spin-transfer torque (STT) that originates from the transfer of the spin angular momentum between a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-30 K. J. Kim , T. Moriyama , T. Koyama , D. Chiba , S. W. Lee , S. J. Lee , K. J. Lee , H. W. Lee , T. Ono

A current problem in semiconductor spin-based electronics is the difficulty of experimentally expressing the effect of spin-polarized current in electrical circuit measurements. We present a theoretical solution with the principle of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 Hanan Dery , Lukasz Cywinski , Lu J. Sham

Recent experiments have demonstrated the efficacy of chiral helically shaped molecules in polarizing the scattered electron spin, an effect termed as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). Here we solve a simple tight-binding model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Shlomi Matityahu , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

This work investigates the influence of parton spin polarization on effective transport and thermodynamic coefficients in noncentral light- and heavy-ion collisions. To model this influence, I consider two sources of spin polarization:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 De-Xian Wei