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Polarization is one of the basic properties of electromagnetic waves conveying valuable information in signal transmission and sensitive measurements. Conventional methods for advanced polarization control impose demanding requirements on…

We consider a trapped atomic system in the presence of spatially varying laser fields. The laser-atom interaction generates a pseudospin degree of freedom (referred to simply as spin) and leads to an effective spin-orbit coupling for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-18 Tudor D. Stanescu , Chuanwei Zhang , Victor Galitski

Spin Hall effects interconvert spin- and charge currents due to spin-orbit interaction, which enables convenient electrical generation and detection of diffusive spin currents and even collective spin excitations in magnetic solids. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , Axel Hoffmann

Terahertz (THz) frequency range holds immense potential for high-speed data processing and signal manipulation. However, a fundamental challenge remains: the efficient and tunable control of THz electromagnetic fields. One promising…

The contribution of the polarization associated with the noncollinear parts of spins in the dielectric permeability tensor of multiferroic materials is considered. As the equilibrium state, we consider the systems of parallel spins, so we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Pavel A. Andreev

Spin torques are at the heart of spin manipulations in spintronic devices. Here, we examine the existence of an optical spin-orbit torque, a relativistic spin torque originating from the spin-orbit coupling of an oscillating applied field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Ritwik Mondal , Andreas Donges , Ulrich Nowak

Terahertz lights are usually generated through the optical rectification process within a femtosecond laser pulse in non-centrosymmetric materials. Here, we report a new generation mechanism of terahertz lights based upon a photoinduced…

Ultrafast THz radiation generation from ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic bilayer heterostructure-based spintronic emitters generally exploits the conversion from spin- to charge-current within the nonmagnetic layer and its interface with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Sandeep Kumar , Sunil Kumar

Strong light-matter coupling within electromagnetic environments provides a promising path to modify and control chemical and physical processes. The origin of the enhancement of nonlinear optical processes such as second-harmonic and…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-03 Davis M. Welakuh , Prineha Narang

Strongly interacting spins underlie many intriguing phenomena and applications ranging from magnetism to quantum information processing. Interacting spins combined with motion display exotic spin transport phenomena, such as superfluidity…

For facile manipulation of polarization states of light for applications in communications, imaging, and information processing, an efficient mechanism is desired for rotating light polarization with a minimum interaction length. Here, we…

Structured light, particularly in the terahertz frequency range, holds considerable potential for a diverse range of applications. However, the generation and control of structured terahertz radiation pose major challenges. In this work, we…

Intense light-matter interactions have revolutionized our ability to probe and manipulate quantum systems at sub-femtosecond time scales, opening routes to all-optical control of electronic currents in solids at petahertz rates. Such…

We introduce a new class of optical micromotors driven by the spin-orbit interaction of light and spin-driven fluid flows leading to simultaneous rotation and revolution of the micromotors. The micromotors are essentially birefringent…

The observation of spin-dependent transport through organic chiral structures has sparked numerous fundamental and applicative questions ranging from biology to spintronics. By now, there is a broad consensus that the effect results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Lior Oppenheim , Karen Michaeli

We investigate how spatiotemporal spin polarized current can lead to terahertz frequency excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnets. By solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation numerically for non-collinear antiferromagnet, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Durga Prasad Goli , Se Kwon Kim

In this paper we review the recent field of organic spintronics, where organic materials are applied as a medium to transport and control spin-polarized signals. The contacts for injecting and detecting spins are formed by metals, oxides,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 W. J. M. Naber , S. Faez , W. G. van der Wiel

The nonlinearity of magnetization precession and spin waves is a cornerstone of contemporary magnonics. We investigate nonlinear magnetization dynamics in a thin epitaxial iron film driven by femtosecond laser pulses in regimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 P. I. Gerevenkov , L. A. Shelukhin , Ia. A. Filatov , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

Phase transition and current of planar clusters with loops of Josephson $\pi$ junction is of great importance for application in the adiabatic quantum computation devices (AQC). Each $\pi$-ring possesses an orbital moment with a current.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Ali Ramazani , Farzaneh Shayeganfar , Anshuman Kumar , Nicholas X Fang

Light-matter interaction allows to achieve non-equilibrium states that are otherwise inaccessible. Motivated by recent experiments that report ferroelectricity -- and even multiferroicity -- in the prototypical diamagnetic band insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Andri Darmawan , Markus E. Gruner , Rossitza Pentcheva