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We construct a novel scattering theory to investigate magnetoelectrically induced spin polarizations. Local spin polarizations generated by electric currents passing through a spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic system are measured by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ph. Jacquod

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has been confirmed experimentally for a large class of organic molecules. Adequately modeling the effect remains a challenging task, with both phenomenological models and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Matthias Geyer , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We here present a variable-range hopping model to describe the chirality-induced spin selectivity along the DNA double helix. In this model, DNA is considered as a one-dimensional disordered system, where electrons are transported by chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ryotaro Sano , Takeo Kato

We predict that the flow of unpolarized current in electron-doped GaAs and InP at room temperature is unstable at high electric fields to the dynamic formation of spin-polarized current pulses. Spin-polarized current is spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Zhi-Gang Yu , Michael E. Flatté

Chiral matter has a structure that lacks inversion, mirror, and rotoreflection symmetry; thus, a given chiral material has either a right- or left-handed structure. In chiral matter, electricity and magnetism can be coupled in an exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Tetsuya Furukawa , Yuta Watanabe , Naoki Ogasawara , Kaya Kobayashi , Tetsuaki Itou

Spin current plays a central role in spintronics. In particular, finding more efficient ways to generate spin current has been an important issue and studied actively. For example, representative methods of spin current generation include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Keita Hamamoto , Motohiko Ezawa , Kun Woo Kim , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Spin-orbit coupling provides a versatile tool to generate and to manipulate the spin degree of freedom in low-dimensional semiconductor structures. The spin Hall effect, where an electrical current drives a transverse spin current and…

A quantum theory of the spin-dependent scattering of semiconductor electrons by a Schottky barrier at an interface with a ferromagnet is presented. The reflection of unpolarized non-equilibrium carriers produces spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

Spin spirals represent a fundamental class of noncollinear yet coplanar magnetic structures that give rise to diverse emergent phenomena reflecting spin chirality. We investigate metallic systems hosting commensurate spin spirals and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Shun Okumura , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Yukitoshi Motome

Spin polarization in chiral molecules is a magnetic molecular response associated with electron transport and enantioselective bond polarization that occurs even in the absence of an external magnetic field. An unexpected finding by Santos…

Non-magnetic materials without inversion symmetry typically exhibit strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), enabling the well-known Rashba Edelstein effect where an external electrical current induces transverse spin polarisation. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Akash Dey , Ashis K. Nandy , Kush Saha

An unexpected finding two decades ago demonstrated that Shockley electron states in noble metal surfaces are spin-polarized, forming a circulating spin texture in reciprocal space. The fundamental role played by the spin degree of freedom…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-24 Idoia G. Gurtubay , Aitzol Iturbe-Beristain , Asier Eiguren

Current-induced spin polarization (CISP) is rederived in ballistic spin-orbit-coupled electron systems, based on equilibrium statistical mechanics. A simple and useful picture is correspondingly proposed to help understand the CISP and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We discuss the electron spin resonance in two-dimensional electron gas at zero external magnetic field. This spin-resonance is due to the transitions between the electron states, which are split by the spin-orbit (SO) interaction, and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

Recent observations of considerable spin polarization in photoemission from metal surfaces through monolayers of chiral molecules were followed by several efforts to rationalize the results as the effect of spin-orbit interaction that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joel Gersten , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Abraham Nitzan

Topological non-collinear magnetic phases of matter are at the heart of many proposals for future information nanotechnology, with novel device concepts based on ultra-thin films and nanowires. Their operation requires understanding and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Filipe Souza Mendes Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Samir Lounis

Taking the non-collinear antiferromagnetic hexagonal Heusler compound Mn$_3$Ge as a reference system, the contributions to linear response phenomena arising solely from the chiral coplanar and non-coplanar spin configurations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Sebastian Wimmer , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

Chirality-dependent spin generation has attracted considerable attention in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we theoretically investigate antiparallel spin polarization as a chirality-dependent quadratic response, by using a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Akane Inda , Kohei Hattori , Hiroaki Kusunose , Satoru Hayami

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin