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Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of a normally incident relativistic particle through an energy barrier, has been tested in various electronic, photonic, and phononic systems. Its potential in guiding and filtering classical waves…

Spin polarized current can excite the magnetization of a ferromagnet through the transfer of spin angular momentum to the local spin system. This pure spin-related transport phenomena leads to alluring possibilities for the achievement of a…

After having derived boundary conditions for dressed-state electrons in a dice lattice, we investigate the electron tunneling through a square electrostatic potential barrier in both dice lattices and graphene under a linearly-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Paula Fekete , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We investigate the quantum transport properties of multichannel nanoribbons made of materials described by the Dirac equation, under an in-plane magnetic field. In the low energy regime, positive and negative finger-gate potentials allow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Chi-Shung Tang , Shun-Jen Cheng

Based on the transmission coefficient of tunneling electrons, we have presented tunneling current and conductivity across a square-potential barrier for both graphene and $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices under a linearly-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete

The newly discovered altermagnets are unconventional collinear compensated magnetic systems, exhibiting even (d, g, or i-wave) spin-polarization order in the band structure, setting them apart from conventional collinear ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-02 Atasi Chakraborty , Rafael González Hernández , Libor šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Transport through potential barriers in graphene is investigated using a set of metallic gates capacitively coupled to graphene to modulate the potential landscape. When a gate-induced potential step is steep enough, disorder becomes less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-18 N. Stander , B. Huard , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Altermagnets - collinear, zero-net-moment magnets with momentum-odd spin splitting protected by crystalline symmetries - offer a tunable route to suppress long-range antiferromagnetism while preserving strong short-range spin fluctuations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-01 Ji Liu , Jianyu Li , Peng Zhang , Xiaosen Yang , Ho-Kin Tang

We theoretically examine generation of spin-polarized current using multi-terminated quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction. First, a two-level quantum dot is analyzed as a minimal model, which is connected to $N$ ($\ge 2$) external leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Conventional spintronic mechanisms, such as spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques based on the spin current, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry to manipulate magnetic moments. In contrast, for spatially separated dual spin currents, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Gengchen Meng Qi Sun , Zhicheng Xie , Yumin Yang , Yu Zhang , Na Lei , Dahai Wei

Topological antiferromagnetic systems, which exhibit anisotropic band structures combined with complex relativistic spin structures in momentum space, have shown strong magnetoresistance effects driven by Dirac fermion characteristics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Marius Weber , Kai Leckron , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo sinova , Baerbel Rethfeld , Hans Christian Schneider

We theoretically investigate spin-valley-locked tunneling transport in a transition-metal dichalcogenide/ferromagnetic-insulator heterostructure under a perpendicular magnetic field, driven by the spin Seebeck effect. We demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Xin Hu , Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

The electronic spectra of altermagnets are a fertile ground for nontrivial topology due to the unique interplay between time-reversal and crystalline symmetries. This is reflected in the unconventional Zeeman splitting between bands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Daniil S. Antonenko , Rafael M. Fernandes , Jorn W. F. Venderbos

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

Altermagnets exhibit nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, establishing a new platform for next-generation spintronic devices. Although altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs) represent the most promising realizations,…

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Magnons can generate a spin current, and the standard generating mechanism requires at least one external field. Since this mechanism is often applied to a multilayer system including a magnet and a paramagnetic metal, the system can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Naoya Arakawa
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