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It has been shown that tunneling of spin-polarized electrons through a semiconductor barrier is accompanied by generation of an electric current in the plane of the interfaces. The direction of this interface current is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Tarasenko , V. I. Perel' , I. N. Yassievich

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , P. Dalal , L. J. Sham

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

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

A general spin symmetry argument is proposed for spin currents in semiconductors. In particular, due to the symmetry with respect to spin polarization of the helicity eigenstates of the Luttinger Hamiltonian for a hole-doped semiconductor,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xindong Wang , X. -G. Zhang

Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with vanishing net magnetic moment, and consists of collinear alternating (i.e., antiferromagnetic-like) spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Collinear antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-split bands and no net magnetization, called altermagnets, show interesting transport properties due to their unique band structure. We here compute the linear response optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Erik Wegner Hodt , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Jacob Linder

The kinetics of the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity induced by the skew scattering is performed from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach in $(001)$ GaAs symmetric quantum well. In the steady state, the extrinsic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-02 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

The generation of spin currents is a key challenge in the field of spintronics. We propose using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) to generate spin currents in altermagnetic thin films, thereby realizing an acoustic spin splitter. Altermagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Pieter M. Gunnink , Jairo Sinova , Alexander Mook

We develop a mesoscale transport theory for the charge and spin degrees of freedom of itinerant carriers in a $d$-wave altermagnet. Our effective Lagrangian description is built upon the slave-boson formulation of the microscopic $t-J$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ricardo Zarzuela , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Olena Gomonay , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Spin splitting underpins a vast range of spin-dependent phenomena. Traditionally, two primary mechanisms generate such splitting: relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and nonrelativistic magnetic exchange coupling (MEC). Governed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Dongling Liu , Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

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 demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

The high efficiency of a tunnel magnetic transistor as a source of spin-polarized electrons has been proven recently [X. Jiang {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 90}, 256603 (2003)]. A concept of this device based on an active group of hot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

We find the extrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) to be comparable to the intrinsic one in roughly half of the altermagnetic spin Laue groups in the limit of large exchange splitting. In materials with a finite Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 A. Osin , A. Levchenko , M. Khodas

A vital goal in spintronics is the efficient electrical generation of spin currents, a pursuit that has recently focused on using antiferromagnets (AFMs) as spin current sources. It has been demonstrated that antiferromagnets with broken PT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Meng Zhu , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Jiahao Shentu , Yizhuo Song , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

Altermagnets exhibit a spin-split band structure despite having zero net magnetization, leading to special magnonic properties such as anisotropic magnon lifetimes and field-free spin transport. Here, we present a direct experimental…

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman , Feifei Li