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The photon spin is an important resource for quantum information processing as is the electron spin in spintronics. However, for subwavelength confined optical excitations, polarization as a global property of a mode cannot be defined.…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Enno Krauss , Gary Razinskas , Dominik Köck , Swen Grossmann , Bert Hecht

We study the influence of spin waves on transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations. Side peaks appear in the differential conductance due to emission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Anatoli Kadigrobov

We consider ballistic transport through a lateral, two-dimensional superlattice with experimentally realizable, sinusoidally oscillating Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. The periodic structure of the rectangular lattice produces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Viktor Szaszkó-Bogár , F. M. Peeters , Péter Földi

Spin-based electronics or spintronics relies on the ability to store, transport and manipulate electron spin polarization with great precision. In its ultimate limit, information is stored in the spin state of a single electron, at which…

We investigate spin-dependent electron transfer in the presence of a Duschinskii rotation. In particular, we propagate dynamics for a two-level model system for which spin-orbit coupling introduces an interstate coupling of the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Suraj S. Chandran , Yanze Wu , Joseph E. Subotnik

We theoretically demonstrate linear spin-wave nonreciprocity in a Ni80Fe20 nanostripe waveguide, based on interband magnonic transitions induced by a time-reversal and spatialinversion symmetry breaking magnetic field. An analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kai Di , Hock Siah Lim , Vanessa Li Zhang , Ser Choon Ng , Meng Hau Kuok

A lateral interface connecting two regions with different strengths of the Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit interaction can be used as a spin polarizer of electrons in two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. [Khodas \emph{et al.}, Phys.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

Time-resolved Faraday rotation has recently demonstrated coherent transfer of electron spin between quantum dots coupled by conjugated molecules. Using a transfer Hamiltonian ansatz for the coupled quantum dots, we calculate the Faraday…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Meier , Veronica Cerletti , Oliver Gywat , Daniel Loss , D. D. Awschalom

In this study, we examine a photonic wire waveguide embedded with an ensemble of quantum dots that directionally emits into the waveguide depending on the spin state of the ensemble. This is accomplished through the aid of the spin-orbit…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Satoshi Iwamoto , Yasuhiko Arakawa

We study electron spin dynamics whose movement is restricted to the lowest one dimensional subband channel ($G \le 2e^2/h $), through nuclear spin relaxation rate measurement ($1/T_1$). We observe an unusual double-peak structure in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 M. H. Fauzi , M. Takahashi , T. Aono , K. Hashimoto , Y. Hirayama

We address the problem of transmission of electrons between two noninteracting leads through a region where they interact (quantum dot). We use a model of spinless electrons hopping on a one-dimensional lattice and with an interaction on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Abhishek Dhar , Diptiman Sen , Dibyendu Roy

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Chirality-induced spin selectivity has been reported in many experiments, but a generally accepted theoretical explanation has not yet been proposed. Here, we introduce a simple model system of a straight cylindrical free-electron wire,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Richard Korytár , Ferdinand Evers

We show that when an electron or photon propagates in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide, its spin angular momentum (SAM) and its orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact. Remarkably, we find that the dynamics resulting from this spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-09 C. C. Leary , M. G. Raymer , S. J. van Enk

Spin-dependent transport is investigated in ballistic regime through the interface between a ferromagnet and a spin spiral. We show that spin-dependent interferences lead to a new type of diffraction called "spin-diffraction". It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aurélien Manchon , Natalya Ryzhanova , A. Vedyayev , Bernard Dieny

Spin transport electronics - spintronics - focuses on utilizing electron spin as a state variable for quantum and classical information processing and storage. Some insulating materials, such as diamond, offer defect centers whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Cardellino , N. Scozzaro , M. R. Herman , A. J. Berger , C. Zhang , K. C. Fong , C. Jayaprakash , D. V. Pelekhov , P. C. Hammel

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

We describe the spin and charge dynamics of the system of two electrons confined within a double quantum dot defined in a quantum wire. The spin dynamics is driven by the electron motion in presence of the spin-orbit interaction and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 J. Leśnicki , B. Szafran

Understanding the coherent properties of electron spins driven by electric fields is crucial for their potential application in quantum-coherent nanoscience. In this work, we address two distinct driving mechanisms in electric-field driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jose Reina-Galvez , Matyas Nachtigall , Nicolas Lorente , Jan Martinek , Christoph Wolf

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba