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Highly spin selective transport of electrons through a helically shaped electrostatic potential is demonstrated in the frame of a minimal model approach. The effect is significant even in the case of weak spin-orbit coupling. Two main…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Gutierrez , E. Diaz , R. Naaman , G. Cuniberti

We demonstrate that information can be transmitted and processed with pure spin currents in silicon. Fe/Al2O3 tunnel barrier contacts are used to produce significant electron spin polarization in the silicon, generating a spin current which…

We present studies of the Coulomb blockade and Kondo regimes of transport through a quantum dot connected to current leads through spin-polarizing quantum point contacts (QPCs). This structure, arising from the effect of lateral spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-21 Anh T. Ngo , Edson Vernek , Sergio E. Ulloa

We propose a concept of non-collinear spin current, whose spin polarization varies in space even in non-magnetic crystals. While it is commonly assumed that the spin polarization of the spin Hall current is uniform, asymmetric local crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dongwook Go , Moritz Sallermann , Fabian R. Lux , Stefan Blügel , Olena Gomonay , Yuriy Mokrousov

A spin- and time-dependent electron transport has been studied in a paramagnetic resonant tunneling diode using the self-consistent Wigner-Poisson method. Based on the calculated current-voltage characteristics in an external magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Pawel Wojcik , Janusz Adamowski , Maciej Woloszyn , Bartlomiej J. Spisak

We analyze electron spin relaxation in electronic transport through coherently coupled double quantum dots in the spin blockade regime. In particular, we focus on hyperfine interaction as the spin relaxation mechanism. We pay special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carlos López-Monís , Jesús Iñarrea , Gloria Platero

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in solids normally originates from the electron motion in the electric field of the crystal. It is key to understanding a variety of spin-transport and topological phenomena, such as Majorana fermions and recently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergey V. Syzranov , Michael L. Wall , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

Semiclassical solutions of two-dimensional Schrodinger equation with spin-orbit interaction and smooth potential are considered. In the leading order, spin polarization is in-plane and follows the evolution of the electron momentum for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

Spin-dependent partial conductances are evaluated in a tight-binding description of electron transport in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) couplings, using transfer-matrix methods. As the magnitude of SO interactions increases, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-06 S. L. A. de Queiroz

The role of dynamical chiral condensate in spin polarization is investigated in a kinetic theory framework. Transport equations for quark matter are derived in the mean-field approximation for the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Ziyue Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

Altermagnets host intrinsically chirality-splitting spin waves, which offer an ideal platform for chirality-based computing with low energy consumption and fast dynamics. However, achieving precise and efficient control over spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Tong Li , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Jian-Tao Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

Radical pairs in the flavoprotein cryptochrome are central to various magnetically sensitive biological processes, including the proposed mechanism of avian magnetoreception. Cryptochrome's molecular chirality has been hypothesized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Luke D. Smith , Sukesh Tallapudi , Matt C. J. Denton , Daniel R. Kattnig

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates giant spin polarization in transport through chiral molecules, paving the way for novel spintronic devices and enantiomer separation. Unlike conventional transport, CISS magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yufei Zhao , Kai Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Kai Sun , Binghai Yan

We have developed a novel technique for detection of spin polarization with a quantum dot weakly coupled to the objective device. The disturbance to the object in this technique is very small since the detection is performed through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

The influence of external magnetic field switching $"$on$"$ and $"$off$"$ on the non-stationary spin-polarized currents in the system of correlated single-level quantum dot coupled to non-magnetic electronic reservoirs has been analyzed. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova , P. I. Arseyev

Quasi-optical experiments are emerging as a powerful technique to probe magnetic transitions in molecular spin systems. However, the simultaneous presence of the electric- and magnetic-dipole induced transitions poses the challenge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Filippo Troiani , Athanassios K. Boudalis

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We report a study of spin dependent transport in a system composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal lead and a ferromagnetic lead (NM-QD-FM). We use the master equation approach to calculate the spin-resolved currents in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Souza , J. C. Egues , A. P. Jauho

We present a theoretical study of the effect of spin-filtering on the Josephson and dissipative quasiparticle currents in a superconducting tunnel junction. By combining the quasiclassical Green's functions and the tunneling Hamiltonian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) currents in nanoelectronics, for example, for magnetization manipulation via spin-orbit torque (SOT), represents a growing field known as "spin-orbitronics". Here, using the density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Poonam Kumari , Cyrille Barreteau , Alexander Smogunov