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We in this paper study theoretically the spin-polarized quantum transport through a T-shape quantum dot-array by means of transfer-matrix method along with the Green^{,}s function technique. Multi-magnetic fields are used to produce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rui Wang , J. -Q. Liang

We use point contact Andreev reflection spin spectroscopy to measure the transport spin polarization of MnAs epitaxial films grown on (001) GaAs. By analyzing both the temperature dependence of the contact resistance and the phonon spectra…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Panguluri , G. Tsoi , B. Nadgorny , S. H. Chun , N. Samarth , I. I. Mazin

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

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

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

A method for measuring the degree of spin polarization of magnetic materials based on spin-dependent resonant tunneling is proposed. The device we consider is a ballistic double-barrier resonant structure consisting of a ferromagnetic layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 Francesco Giazotto , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Beltram

The spin polarization of electrons trapped in InAs self-assembled quantum dot ensembles is investigated. A statistical approach for the population of the spin levels allows one to infer the spin polarization from the measure values of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-04 F. G. G. Hernandez , T. P. Mayer Alegre , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro

Electrically-induced electron spin polarization is imaged in n-type ZnSe epilayers using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. Despite no evidence for an electrically-induced internal magnetic field, current-induced in-plane spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Stern , S. Ghosh , G. Xiang , M. Zhu , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

We investigate spin-polarized inter-band tunneling through measurement of (Ga,Mn)As based Zener tunnel diode. By placing the diode under reverse bias, electron spin polarization is transferred from the valence band of p-type (Ga,Mn)As to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Johnston-Halperin , D. Lofgreen , R. K. Kawakami , D. K. Young , L. Coldren , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

The effect of spin-disorder scattering on perpendicular transport in a magnetic monolayer is considered within the single-site Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA). The exchange interaction between a conduction electron and localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We propose a mechanism for the recently reported destabilization by an in-plane magnetic field of the conducting phase of low density electrons in 2D. We apply our self-consistent approach based on the memory function formalism to the fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Thakur , D. Neilson

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

The polarization of X-ray emission is a unique tool used to investigate the magnetic field structure around astrophysical objects. In this paper, we study the linear polarization of X-ray emissions from gamma-ray binary systems based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Xingxing Hu , Jumpei Takata

We report spin amplification using a capacitive beam splitter in n-type GaAs where the spin polarization is monitored via transverse electron focusing measurement. It is shown that partially spin-polarized current injected by the emitter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Chengyu Yan , Sanjeev Kumar , Kalarikad Thomas , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths , Geraint Jones , Michael Pepper

Electrically generated spin polarization is probed directly in bulk GaN using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. A series of n-type GaN epilayers are grown in the wurtzite phase both by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. F. Koehl , M. H. Wong , C. Poblenz , B. Swenson , U. K. Mishra , J. S. Speck , D. D. Awschalom

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

We propose and demonstrate a new method to probe local spin polarization in semiconductor micro devices at low and zero magnetic fields. By connecting a single-lead quantum dot to a semiconductor micro device and monitoring electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Tomohiro Otsuka , Yuuki Sugihara , Jun Yoneda , Shingo Katsumoto , Seigo Tarucha

We propose a spin polarizer device composed of a quantum dot connected to the spin polarized leads. The spin control of the current flowing through the device is entirely due to the Coulomb interactions present inside the dot. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Stefanski

The steady current-voltage characteristics of ferromagnet-silicon-ferromagnet channels with tunable emitter and collector polarizations are investigated in the presence of spin blockade generalizing the model developed by Pershin Yu V and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 D. V. Khomitsky