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We present a systematic first-principles investigation of linear-response spin-dependent quantum transport in the van der Waals ferromagnets Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$, Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$, and Fe$_3$GaTe$_2$. Using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Anita Halder , Declan Nell , Akash Bajaj , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

Using the transfer matrix method and the effective-mass approximation, the effect of resonant states on spin transport is studied in ZnSe/ZnMnSe/ZnSe/ZnMnSe/ZnSe structures under the influence of both electric and magnetic fields. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Saffarzadeh , M. Bahar , M. Banihasan

We consider "shuttling" of spin-polarized electrons between two magnetic electrodes (half-metals) by a movable dot with a single electronic level. If the magnetization of the electrodes is antiparallel we show that the transmittance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Y. Gorelik , S. I. Kulinich , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , V. M. Vinokur

Starting from the assumption that ferromagnetically correlated regions exist in manganites even in the absence of long-range magnetic order, we construct a model of charge transfer due to the spin-dependent tunnelling of charge carriers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. I. Kugel , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. O. Sboychakov , M. Yu. Kagan , I. V. Brodsky , A. V. Klaptsov

A one dimensional theory of lateral spin-polarized transport is derived from the two dimensional flow in the vertical cross section of a stack of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic layers. This takes into account the influence of the lead on…

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

We present magnetotransport measurements performed on two-dimensional hole gases embedded in carbon doped p-type GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures grown on [001] oriented substrates. A pronounced beating pattern in the Shubnikov-de Haas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Fabrizio Nichele , Atindra Nath Pal , Roland Winkler , Christian Gerl , Werner Wegscheider , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

We consider transport in the insulating regime of GaMnAs. We calculate the resistance, magnetoresitance and Hall effect, assuming that the Fermi energy is in the region of localized states above the valence band mobility edge. Both hopping…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Louis-Francois Arsenault , B. Movaghar , P. Desjardins , A. Yelon

We study the transport properties of the two-dimensional electron gas in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures in parallel to the interface magnetic fields at low temperatures. The magnetoresistance in the metallic phase is found to be positive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai , E. V. Deviatov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov

We investigate high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases in AlGaAs heterostructures by employing Schottky-gate-dependent measurements of the samples' electron density and mobility. Surprisingly, we find that two different sample…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 C. Rossler , T. Feil , P. Mensch , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider

We present magnetic and tunnel transport properties of (Ga,Mn)As/(In,Ga)As/(Ga,Mn)As structure before and after adequate annealing procedure. The conjugate increase of magnetization and tunnel magnetoresistance obtained after annealing is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-04 M. Elsen , H. Jaffres , R. Mattana , L. Thevenard , A. Lemaitre , J. -M. George

The formation of a novel spin-polarized 2D electron gas at the LaMnO$_3$ monolayer embedded in SrMnO$_3$ is predicted from the first-principles density-functional calculations. The La (d) electrons become confined in the direction normal to…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-10 B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy

We demonstrate efficient spin-polarized tunneling between a ferromagnetic metal and a ferromagnetic semiconductor with highly mismatched conductivities. This is indicated by a large tunneling magnetoresistance (up to 30%) at low…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. H. Chun , S. J. Potashnik , K. C. Ku , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

A novel spin-spin coupling mechanism that occurs during the transport of spin-polarized minority electrons in semiconductors is described. Unlike the Coulomb spin drag, this coupling arises from the ambipolar electric field which is created…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Cadiz , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe , S. Arscott

We fabricate a vertical spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (spin-MOSFET) structure, which is composed of an epitaxial single-crystal heterostructure with a ferromagnetic-semiconductor GaMnAs source/drain, and investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Toshiki Kanaki , Hirokatsu Asahara , Shinobu Ohya , Masaaki Tanaka

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

The transport equations for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction are presented. The distribution function is a 2x2-matrix in the spin space. Particle and energy conservation laws determine the expressions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , B. I. Halperin

We find, through first-principles calculations, that hole doping induces a ferromagnetic phase transition in monolayer GaSe. Upon increasing hole density, the average spin magnetic moment per carrier increases and reaches a plateau near 1.0…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ting Cao , Zhenglu Li , Steven G. Louie

The motion of magnetic domain walls in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures driven by current via the spin Hall torque is described. We show results from perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB|MgO heterostructures with various heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-26 Jacob Torrejon , Masamitsu Hayashi

Taking into account both random impurity distribution and thermal fluctuations of localized spins, we have performed a model calculation for the carrier (hole) state in Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As by using the coherent potential approximation (CPA).…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Takahashi , K. Kubo