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We study electron transport through a domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanowire subject to spin-dependent scattering. A scattering matrix formalism is developed to address both coherent and incoherent transport properties. The coherent case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter E. Falloon , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Dietmar Weinmann , Robert L. Stamps

Optical pump-probe measurements of spin-dynamics at temperatures down to 1.5K are described for a series of (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well samples containing high mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). For well widths…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 W. J. H. Leyland , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , D. Taylor , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

Electron spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is investigated in bilayer graphene with only the lowest conduction band being relevant. The spin-orbit coupling is constructed from the symmetry group analysis with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

Spin transport at metallic interfaces is an essential ingredient of various spintronic device concepts, such as giant magnetoresistance, spin-transfer torque, and spin pumping. Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in many such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 G. G. Baez Flores , Alexey A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde , K. D. Belashchenko

We present a framework for modeling the transport of any number of globally conserved quantities in any spatial configuration and apply it to obtain a model of magnetization transport for spin-systems that is valid in new regimes (including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Rico A. R. Picone , Joseph L. Garbini , John A. Sidles

The fundamental aspects of spin-dependent transport processes and their interplay with temperature gradients, as given by the spin Seebeck coefficient, are still largely unexplored and a multitude of contributing factors must be considered.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-23 Roman Kováčik , Phivos Mavropoulos , Daniel Wortmann , Stefan Blügel

We employ first-principles techniques tailored to properly describe semiconductors (modified Becke-Johnson potential added to the exchange-correlation functional), to obtain the electronic band structures of both the zinc-blende and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

In this review we discuss spin and charge transport properties in graphene-based single-layer and few-layer spin-valve devices. We give an overview of challenges and recent advances in the field of device fabrication and discuss two of our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 F. Volmer , M. Drögeler , G. Güntherodt , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten

Spin transport properties of the quantum one-dimensional non-linear sigma model are studied based upon the Bethe ansatz exact solution for the O(3) sigma model and the 1/N-expansion approach for the O(N) sigma model. It is shown that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Satoshi Fujimoto

We investigate the spin diffusion and transport in a graphene monolayer on SiO$_2$ substrate by means of the microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. The substrate causes a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling field $\sim 0.15$ meV,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-07 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Understanding spin relaxation in topological systems such as quantum spin-hall (QSH) insulator is critical for realizing coherent transport at high temperature. WTe$_{2}$, known as a QSH insulator with a high transition temperature of 100K,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Junqing Xu , Hiroyuki Takenaka , Andrew Grieder , Jacopo Simoni , Ravishankar Sundraraman , Yuan Ping

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

The transport properties of the perovskites KTaO$_3$ are calculated using first-principles methods. Our study is based on Boltzmann transport theory and the relaxation time approximation, where the scattering rate is calculated using an…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-26 Burak Himmetoglu , Anderson Janotti

The elimination of extrinsic sources of spin relaxation is key in realizing the exceptional intrinsic spin transport performance of graphene. Towards this, we study charge and spin transport in bilayer graphene-based spin valve devices…

Transport through semiconductor nanostructures is a quantum-coherent process. This paper focuses on systems in which the electron's dynamics is ballistic and the transport is dominated by the scattering from structure boundaries. Opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. R. Racec , P. N. Racec , U. Wulf

A density functional theory based two-terminal scattering formalism that includes spin-orbit coupling and spin non-collinearity is described. An implementation using tight-binding muffin-tin orbitals combined with extensive use of sparse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Anton A. Starikov , Yi Liu , Zhe Yuan , Paul J. Kelly

We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of an atomic-scale device bridging two metallic contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Magnus Paulsson , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Spin transport properties of the one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin systems for both $S=1/2$ and S=1 are studied by applying twisted boundary magnetic field. The spin current displays significantly different behavior of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Zhuo , Xiaoqun Wang , Yupeng Wang

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

In this research work, roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposited graphene device electronic transport properties are benchmarked to elucidate and comprehend mobility degradation in the real-world commercial application of graphene devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Bhupesh Bishnoi