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We theoretically study the optical generation of dc spin current (i.e., a spin-current solar cell) in ordered antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic insulators, motivated by a recent study on the laser-driven spinon spin current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masahiro Sato

An exact solution for electromagnetic wave diffraction at the junction of two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) is obtained and analyzed for electric field polarized along the edge. A special emphasis is paid to the metal-contacted and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Dmitry Svintsov , Alexander Shabanov

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Spin photocurrents generated by homogeneous optical excitation with circularly polarized radiation in quantum wells (QWs) are reviewed. The absorption of circularly polarized light results in optical spin orientation due to the transfer of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. D. Ganichev , W. Prettl

We discuss optical absorption in topological insulators and study possible photoelectric effects theoretically. We found that absorption of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional topological insulators results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 S. N. Artemenko , V. O. Kaladzhyan

We show that in a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) the interplay between the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a potential barrier (eg., the sample edge) generates interesting spin effects. In the presence of an external charge current, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a temperature gradient in a magnetic material, which can be detected electrically via the inverse spin Hall effect in a metallic contact. Since the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-14 Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

Using the wave nature of the electrons, we demonstrate that a transverse spin current can be generated simply by the diffraction through a single slit in the spin-orbital coupling system of the two-dimensional electron gas. The diffracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Chyh-Hong Chern , Cheng-Ju Lin

Altermagnets constitute a new class of magnetic materials that combine properties previously thought to be exclusive to either antiferromagnets or ferromagnets, and have unique properties of their own. In particular, a combination of…

We present the current controlled motion of dynamic soliton embedded in spin wave background in ferromagnetic nanowire. With the stronger breather character we get the novel magnetic rogue wave and clarify its formation mechanism. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Fei Zhao , Zai-Dong Li , Qiu-Yan Li , Lin Wen , Guangsheng Fu , W. M. Liu

We report on microwave (mw) radiation induced electric currents in (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te and InAs/(In,Ga)As quantum wells subjected to an external in-plane magnetic field. The current generation is attributed to the spin-dependent energy…

Current-induced spin generations are of significant importance for electrically controllable magnetization. Due to symmetry constraints, linear spin generation is absent in centrosymmetric magnets and nonlinear contributions become crucial.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Jie Zhang , Ruijing Fang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

Altermagnetism has emerged as a promising ingredient for realizing nontrivial Josephson phases, but so far explored in single Josephson junctions. In this work, we consider the coherent coupling of two Josephson junctions with spin-singlet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-06 Sayan Mondal , Jorge Cayao

The recently discovered altermagnets exhibit collinear magnetic order with zero net magnetization but with unconventional spin-polarized d/g/i-wave band structures, expanding the known paradigms of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In…

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

A surface antisymmetry group framework is developed to establish design rules for deterministic electrical switching of the N\'eel vector in a film of a collinear bipartite antiferromagnet. In centrosymmetric altermagnets, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 K. D. Belashchenko

We show that spin-dependent electron-phonon interaction in the energy relaxation of a two-dimensional electron gas results in equal and oppositely directed currents in the spin-up and spin-down subbands yielding a pure spin current. In our…

This is an overview of current-induced spin polarization in gyrotropic semiconductor nanostructures. Such a spin polarization as response to a charge current may be classified as the inverse of the spin-galvanic effect, and sometimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Sergey D. Ganichev , Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro