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A scheme for a spin-polarized current separator is proposed by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of a fork-shaped nanostructure with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), connected to three leads with the same width. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

Tunable synthetic spin-orbit coupling (s-SOC) is one of the key challenges in various quantum systems, such as ultracold atomic gases, topological superconductors, and semiconductor quantum dots. Here we experimentally demonstrate…

Conventional computer electronics creates a dichotomy between how information is processed and how it is stored. Silicon chips process information by controlling the flow of charge through a network of logic gates. This information is then…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Chernyshov , M. Overby , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , Y. Lyanda-Geller , L. P. Rokhinson

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

We demonstrate how the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures can produce and control a spin-polarized current without ferromagnetic leads. Key idea is to use spin-double refraction of an electronic beam with a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , D. Bercioux , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

We propose a semiconductor structure that can rotate the electron spin without using ferromagnetic contacts, tunneling barriers, external radiation etc. The structure consists of a strongly curved one-dimensional ballistic wire with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-03 Maxim P. Trushin , Alexander L. Chudnovskiy

The complex oxide heterostructures such as LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) interface are paradigmatic platforms to explore emerging multi-degrees of freedom coupling and the associated exotic phenomena. In this study, we reveal the effects of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Weilong Kong , Tong Yang , Jun Zhou , Yong Zheng Luo , Jingsheng Chen , Lei Shen , Yong Jiang , Yuan Ping Feng , Ming Yang

Altermagnets exhibit spontaneously spin-split electronic bands in the zero spin-orbit coupling (SOC) limit arising from the presence of collinear compensated magnetic order. The distinctive magneto-crystalline symmetries of altermagnets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Hana Schiff , Paul McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau , Judit Romhanyi

The ability to control the directionality of surface waves by manipulating its polarization has been of great significance for applications in spintronics and polarization-based optics. Surface waves with evanescent tails are found to…

Altermagnets have been identified as the third category of magnetic materials, exhibiting momentum-dependent spin splitting characterized by even powers of momentum. In this study, we show that when subjected to elliptically polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Qiang Li

Altermagnetism is a recently identified class of magnetic order characterized by unconventional momentum-dependent spin splitting in the absence of net magnetization, and understanding its electronic and magnetic properties is essential for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Shuyi Li , Adrian Bahri , Chunjing Jia

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

Altermagnetism has been proposed as a new type of magnetism, simultaneously exhibiting compensated spin moments in real space and spin-split electronic bands in reciprocal space. Alternating chiral magnon splitting is considered a unique…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Yi-Fan Zhang , Xiao-Sheng Ni , Ke Chen , Kun Cao

This paper investigates the energy and angular momentum radiation of altermagnets under Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and external magnetic fields. Using an effective low-energy Hamiltonian, we derive electronic energy bands and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yong-Mei Zhang , Zhi- Ping Niu

Chiral structures, breaking spatial inversion symmetry, exhibit non-zero chiroptical activity (COA) due to the interaction between their electric and magnetic responses under external electromagnetic fields, an effect that is otherwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Solmar Varela , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Ernesto Medina , Vladimiro Mujica

Altermagnets host unconventional spin-polarized bands despite zero net magnetization, but controlling their spin structure remains challenging. We propose a multi-field approach to engineer spin polarization in $d$-wave altermagnets using…

For deterministic magnetization switching by spin-orbit torque (SOT) in a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy system, an additional in-plane direction magnetic field is essential for deterministic switching by breaking the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Suhyeok An , Hyeong-Joo Seo , Eunchong Baek , Soobeom Lee , Chun-Yeol You

The possibility of a strain-induced transformation from $g$-wave to $d$-wave altermagnetism was recently recently proposed for MnTe using a $k\cdot p$ perturbative model. In this work, we demonstrate such a transition in CrSb for a wider…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-03 Bennet Karetta , Xanthe H. Verbeek , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

We theoretically study the influence of the $k$-cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the correlation effects of magnetic impurities by combining the variational method and the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo (HFQMC) simulations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Xiong-Tao Peng , Fang Lin , Liang Chen , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun