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Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

We consider a thin-film normal metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Asle Sudbø

Proposing a general formulism in terms of local coordinates representing the tilting of the ligands' octahedra, we evaluate the electric polarization in a chain of transition metal ions with unpolar octahedron rotation. We find the orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Shan Zhu , You-Quan Li

The cavity mediated spin current between two ferrite samples has been reported by Bai et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 217201 (2017)]. This experiment was done in the linear regime of the interaction in the presence of external drive. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair , Zhedong Zhang , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

We show that spin polarization of electron density in nonmagnetic degenerate semiconductors can achieve 100%. This effect is realized in ferromagnet-semiconductor $FM-n^{+}$-$n$ junctions even at moderate spin selectivity of the $FM-n^{+}$…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Petukhov , V. N. Smelyanskiy , V. V. Osipov

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

We survey some recent accumulated body of works on hyperfine-mediated transport in a confined one-dimensional channel, realized typically by electrostatic gating. Our review begins with how the spin-polarized edge current can be used as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 M. H. Fauzi , Y. Hirayama

It has recently been suggested that two counter-propagating, circularly polarized, ultra-intense lasers can induce a strong electron spin polarization at the magnetic node of the electromagnetic field that they setup. We confirm these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Dario Del Sorbo , Daniel Seipt , Alexander G. R. Thomas , Christopher P. Ridgres

A systematic investigation of spin injection behavior in Au/FM (FM = Fe and Ni) multilayers is performed using the superdiffusive spin transport theory. By exciting the nonmagnetic layer, the laser-induced hot electrons may transfer spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Wen-Tian Lu , Zhe Yuan , Xiaohong Xu

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

A mesoscopic spin valve is used to determine the effective spin polarization of electrons tunneling from and into ferromagnetic transition metals at finite voltages. The tunneling spin polarization from the ferromagnet (FM) slowly decreases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. O. Valenzuela , D. J. Monsma , C. M. Marcus , V. Narayanamurti , M. Tinkham

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnet, the local magnetization receives a spin torque. Two consequences of this spin torque are studied. First, the uniformly magnetized ferromagnet becomes unstable if a sufficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Li , J. He , S. Zhang

Generating efficient and highly spin-polarized currents through nanoscale junctions is essential in the field of nanoelectronics and spintronics. In this paper, using $ab$ $initio$ electron transport calculations, we predict highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Dongzhe Li

We study the spin-dependent conductance of ballistic mesoscopic ring systems in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that, for the setup proposed, even a small Zeeman splitting can lead to a considerable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus Popp , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

We analyze transport through both a double quantum dot and a triple quantum dot with inhomogeneous Zeeman splittings in the presence of crossed dc and ac magnetic fields. We find that strongly spin-polarized current can be achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Maria Busl , Gloria Platero

We propose a ``spin-guide'' source for generation of electric currents with a high degree of spin polarization, allowing long-distance transmission of the spin-polarization. In the spin-guide scheme proposed here, a non-magnetic conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman

The spin filtering effect in the bilayer nanowire with quantum point contact is investigated theoretically. We demonstrate the new mechanism of the spin filtering based on the lateral inter-subband spin-orbit coupling, which for the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski

The spin transport characteristics of a nanowire directional electronic coupler have been evaluated theoretically via a transfer matrix approach. The application of a gate field in the region of mixing allows for control of spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Rebello Sousa Dias , V. Lopez-Richard , G. E. Marques , S. E. Ulloa

Chiral materials are the ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry, relativistic effects, and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been intensively studied to electrically generate…

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman