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It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

A proposal of a spin separator based on the spin Zeeman effect in Y-shaped nanostructure with a quantum point contact is presented. Our calculations show that the appropriate tuning of the quantum point contact potential and the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-12 P. Wojcik , M. Woloszyn , B. J. Spisak , J. Adamowski

Unlike the two-terminal device, in which the time-reversal invariant spin-orbit interaction alone cannot polarize the spins, such a polarization can be generated when electrons from one source reservoir flow into two (or more) separate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Shlomi Matityahu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

We investigate the persistent currents and magnetization of a mesoscopic system consisting of two clean metallic rings sharing a single contact point in a magnetic field. Many novel features with respect to the single-ring geometry are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Avishai , J. M. Luck

Spin transitions are studied theoretically and experimentally in a resonantly excited system of cavity polaritons in a magnetic field. Weak pair interactions in this boson system make possible fast and massive spin flips occurring at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. S. Gavrilov , A. V. Sekretenko , N. A. Gippius , C. Schneider , S. Höfling , M. Kamp , A. Forchel , V. D. Kulakovskii

Theoretical study is performed of a single-mode polariton system with linear coupling of spin components. When combined with an ordinary two-particle interaction, the spin coupling involves a spontaneous symmetry breaking accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 S. S. Gavrilov

We study the tunneling current through a mesoscopic two-terminal ring with spin-orbit coupling, which is threaded by a magnetic flux. The electron-electron interaction in the ring is described in terms of a Tomonaga-Luttinger model which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev , N. Pauget

We study theoretically the combined effect of the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions on the tunneling electron transport through a single-channel quantum ring threaded by magnetic flux. We focus on the high temperature case (temperature is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We fabricated a hybrid structure in which cobalt and permalloy micromagnets produce a local in-plane spin-dependent potential barrier for high-mobility electrons at the GaAs/AlGaAs interface. Spin effects are observed in ballistic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Wróbel , T. Dietl , A. Lusakowski , G. Grabecki , K. Fronc , R. Hey , K. H. Ploog , H. Shtrikman

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

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We report on microwave (mw) radiation induced electric currents in (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te and InAs/(In,Ga)As quantum wells subjected to an external in-plane magnetic field. The current generation is attributed to the spin-dependent energy…

A mesoscopic description of spin-transfer effect is proposed, based on the spin-injection mechanism occurring at the junction with a ferromagnet. The effect of spin-injection is to modify locally, in the ferromagnetic configuration space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -E. Wegrowe , S. M. Santos , M. -C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin , J. M. Rubí

We present a method to create spin-polarized beams of ballistic electrons in a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Scattering of a spin-unpolarized injected beam from a lithographic barrier leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Chen , J. J. Heremans , J. A. Peters , J. P. Dulka , A. O. Govorov , N. Goel , S. J. Chung , M. B. Santos

We consider electronic current transport through a ballistic one-dimensional quantum wire connected to two ferromagnetic leads. We study the effects of the spin-dependence of interfacial phase shifts (SDIPS) acquired by electrons upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cottet , T. Kontos , W. Belzig , C. Schonenberger , C. Bruder

We present a theoretical study of low temperature nonequilibrium transport through an interacting quantum dot in the presence of Zeeman magnetic field and current injection into one of its leads. By using a self-consistent renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Shaon Sahoo , Adeline Crépieux , Mireille Lavagna

A planar ballistic structure is predicted to be highly effective in filtering electron spin from an unpolarized source into two output fluxes with the opposite and practically pure spin polarizations. The operability of the proposed device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

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

We consider spin-dependent tunneling through a gallium arsenide barrier, a material which has no inversion symmetry. We are dealing with free electrons, with one effective mass and a spin-splitting in the barrier material. When we take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 T. L. Hoai Nguyen , Henri-Jean Drouhin , Jean-Eric Wegrowe , Guy Fishman