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Tunable magnetic interactions in high-mobility nonmagnetic semiconductor heterostructures are centrally important to spin-based quantum technologies. Conventionally, this requires incorporation of "magnetic impurities" within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Siegert , Arindam Ghosh , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie

The emergence of topological magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials promoted 2D heterostructures as key building-blocks of devices for information technology based on topological concepts. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Nihad Abuawwad , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Hazem Abusara , Samir Lounis

Precisely engineered tunnel junctions exhibit a long sought effect that occurs when the energy of the electron is comparable to the potential energy of the tunneling barrier. The resistance of metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-25 Casey W. Miller , Zhi-Pan Li , Ivan K. Schuller , R. W. Dave , J. M. Slaughter , Johan Akerman

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

We have fabricated a lateral double barrier magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) which consists of a single self-assembled InAs quantum dot (QD) with ferromagnetic Co leads. The MTJ shows clear hysteretic tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Hamaya , S. Masubuchi , M. Kawamura , T. Machida , M. Jung , K. Shibata , K. Hirakawa , T. Taniyama , S. Ishida , Y. Arakawa

Once called a "classically non-describable two-valuedness" by Pauli , the electron spin is a natural resource for long-lived quantum information since it is mostly impervious to electric fluctuations and can be replicated in large arrays…

A most fundamental and longstanding goal in spintronics is to electrically tune highly efficient spin injectors and detectors, preferably compatible with nanoscale electronics. Here, we demonstrate all these points using semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Arunav Bordoloi , Valentina Zannier , Lucia Sorba , Christian Schönenberger , Andreas Baumgartner

Voltage-driven spin transfer torque in a magnetic tunnel junction comprising magnetic insulating electrodes is studied theoretically. In contrast with the conventional magnetic tunnel junctions comprising transition metal ferromagnets, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Y. Yuan A. Manchon

We have studied the spin-splitting effect in a four-terminal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas system with two potential barriers generated by two surface metal gates and an external perpendicular magnetic field. The calculations show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zijiang Wang , Jianhong He , Huazhong Guo

A two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in two-valley semiconductors has two discrete degrees of freedom given by the spin and valley quantum numbers. We analyze the zero-temperature magnetic instabilities of two-valley semiconductors with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Dmitry Miserev , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The coexistence and competition of superconductivity and magnetism can lead to a variety of rich physics and technological applications. Recent discovery of atomic-layer superconductors and self-assembly of magnetic molecules on solid…

We present a theoretical study of momentum-resolved tunneling between parallel two-dimensional conductors whose charge carriers have a (pseudo-)spin-1/2 degree of freedom that is strongly coupled to their linear orbital momentum. Specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 L. Pratley , U. Zuelicke

Spin filter tunnel junctions are based on selective tunneling of up and down spin electrons controlled through exchange splitting of the band structure of a ferromagnetic insulator. Therefore, spin filter efficiency can be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 P. K. Muduli , X. L. Wang , J. H. Zhao , Mark G. Blamire

Atomically thin group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with extraordinary properties including the direct band gap in the visible frequency range, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Gui-Bin Liu , Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

In cavity quantum electrodynamics, the multiple reflections of a photon between two mirrors defining a cavity is exploited to enhance the light-coupling of an intra-cavity atom. We show that this paradigm for enhancing the interaction of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Weihao Cao , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Jiang Xiao , Wang Yao

The non-perturbation theory of electronic dynamic conductivity for open two-barrier resonance tunnel structure is established for the first time within the model of rectangular potentials and different effective masses of electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. V. Tkach , Ju. O. Seti , O. M. Voitsekhivska

Manipulation of magnetization by electric field is a central goal of spintronics because it enables energy-efficient operation of spin-based devices. Spin wave devices are promising candidates for low-power information processing but a…

Spintronics refers commonly to phenomena in which the spin of electrons in a solid state environment plays the determining role. In a more narrow sense spintronics is an emerging research field of electronics: spintronics devices are based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Fabian , A. Matos-Abiague , C. Ertler , P. Stano , I. Zutic

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, characterized by their inherent quantum confinement, strong spin-orbit coupling, and diverse forms of symmetry breaking, provide an ideal platform for exploring novel quantum transport phenomena. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 Xingrong Ren , Huiqing Ye , Tian Le

The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials which are compound of transition metal (TM) with other elements, has opened new avenues for basic research on low-dimensional magnetism and potential applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Xiaoxiong Ren , Junsheng Huang , Ping Li , Yun Zhang , Zhi-Xin Guo