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Recent experimental breakthroughs have demonstrated that the electron spin in silicon can be reliably injected and detected as well as transferred over distances exceeding 1 mm. We propose an on-chip communication paradigm which is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-23 Hanan Dery , Yang Song , Pengke Li , Igor Zutic

There is controversy as to whether a one-dimensional (1D) electron gas can spin polarise in the absence of a magnetic field. Together with a simple model, we present conductance measurements on ultra low-disorder quantum wires supportive of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Reilly , T. M. Buehler , J. L. O'Brien , A. R. Hamilton , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark , B. E. Kane , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Transporting ensembles of electrons over long distances without losing their spin polarization is an important benchmark for spintronic devices. It requires usually to inject and to probe spin polarized electrons in conduction channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 B. Bertrand , S. Hermelin , S. Takada , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck , C. Bäuerle , T. Meunier

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

Semiclassical solutions of two-dimensional Schrodinger equation with spin-orbit interaction and smooth potential are considered. In the leading order, spin polarization is in-plane and follows the evolution of the electron momentum for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We explore spin dependent transport through a magnetic quantum wire which is attached to two non-magnetic metallic electrodes. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the quantum wire is attached to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

We propose quantum devices having spin-orbit coupling (but no magnetic fields or magnetic materials) that, when attached to leads, yield a high degree of transmitted electron polarization. An example of such a simple device is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Y. Avishai , Y. B. Band

We investigate a one-dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi-infinite leads in the absence and in the presence of a backscattering potential. An incident electron on the clean wire is perfectly transmitted into spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 I. Safi , H. J. Schulz

The spin-dependent electron transmission through a helical membrane with account of linear spin-orbit interaction has been investigated by numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation in cylindrical coordinates . It is shown that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Guo-Hua Liang , Yong-Long Wang , Hua Jiang , Meng-Yun Lai , Hong-Shi Zong

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

A nanodevice consisting of a conductive cylinder in an axial magnetic field with one-dimensional wires attached to its lateral surface is considered. An explicit form for transmission and reflection coefficients of the system as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Margulis , M. A. Pyataev

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

We consider a single electron traveling along a strictly one-dimensional quantum wire interacting with another electron in a quantum ring capacitively coupled to the wire. We develop an exact numerical method for treating the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 M. R. Poniedziałek , B. Szafran

An electron propagating through a solid carries spin angular momentum in addition to its mass and charge. Of late there has been considerable interest in developing electronic devices based on the transport of spin, which offer potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Weber , N. Gedik , J. E. Moore , J. Orenstein , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie