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We investigate the probability distribution of the quantum fluctuations of thermodynamic functions of finite, ballistic, phase-coherent Fermi gases. Depending on the chaotic or integrable nature of the underlying classical dynamics, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Leboeuf , A. G. Monastra

The effect of weak localization on spin relaxation in a two-dimensional system with a spin-split spectrum is considered. It is shown that the spin relaxation slows down due to the interference of electron waves moving along closed paths in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. S. Lyubinskiy , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

The spin inertia measurement is a recently emerged tool to study slow spin dynamics, which is based on the excitation of the system by a train of circularly polarized pulses with alternating helicity. Motivated by the experimental results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 D. S. Smirnov , E. A. Zhukov , E. Kirstein , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer , A. Greilich , M. M. Glazov

We study theoretically electron spins in nanowire quantum dots placed inside a transmission line resonator. Because of the spin-orbit interaction, the spins couple to the electric component of the resonator electromagnetic field and enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mircea Trif , Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

Nonequilibrium physics of random events, or fluctuations, is a unique fingerprint of a given system. Here we demonstrate that in noninteracting systems, whose dynamics is driven by Majorana states, the effective charge $e^*$, characterizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 Sergey Smirnov

The quest to identify and observe Majorana fermions in physics and condensed-matter systems remains an important challenge. Here, we introduce a qubit (spin-$1/2$) from the occurrence of two delocalized zero-energy Majorana fermions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ephraim Bernhardt , Brian Chung Hang Cheung , Karyn Le Hur

We present muon spin lattice relaxation measurements in the V15 spin 1/2 molecular nano-magnet. We find that the relaxation rate in low magnetic fields (<5 kG) is temperature independent below ~10 K, implying that the molecular spin is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Z. Salman , R. F. Kiefl , K. H. Chow , W. A. MacFarlane , T. Keeler , T. Parolin , S. Tabbara , D. Wang

We investigate the magnetic characteristics and tunnelling signatures of a planar Josephson junction with Rashba spin-orbit coupling during the fusion of two Majorana vortices. By employing the topological phase diagram and conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Krishnan Ganesh , Derek K. K. Lee , Jiannis K. Pachos

A perturbation spin-wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets on a square lattice is proposed to calculate the uniform static magnetic susceptibility at finite temperatures, where a divergence in the previous theories due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-22 Y. H. Su , M. M. Liang , G. M. Zhang

We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of a double quantum dot system coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire and ferromagnetic leads. The study focuses on the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

We compute correlation functions for one-dimensional electron systems which spin and charge degrees of freedom are coupled through spin-orbit coupling. Charge density waves, spin density waves, singlet- triplet- superconducting fluctuations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-16 Aníbal Iucci

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

Low-energy spin and charge excitations of one-dimensional interacting fermions are completely decoupled and propagate with different velocities. These modes however can decay due to several possible mechanisms. In this paper we expose a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-06-28 Marco Polini , Giovanni Vignale

Hidden magnetic order of Sr$_2$Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$O$_4$, $x = 0.05$ and 0.1, has been studied using muon spin relaxation spectroscopy. In zero applied field and weak longitudinal fields ($\mu_0H_L \lesssim 2$~mT), muon spin relaxation data can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 C. Tan , Z. F. Ding , J. Zhang , Z. H. Zhu , O. O. Bernal , P. -C. Ho , A. D. Hillier , A. Koda , H. Luetkens , G. D. Morris , D. E. MacLaughlin , L. Shu

Focusing on the efficient probe and manipulation of single-particle spin states, we investigate the coupled spin and orbital dynamics of a spin 1/2 particle in a harmonic potential subject to ultrastrong spin-orbit interaction and external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 C. Echeverria-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

Spin propagation in systems of one-dimensional interacting fermions at finite temperature is intrinsically diffusive. The spreading rate of a spin packet is controlled by a transport coefficient termed "spin drag" relaxation time $\tau_{\rm…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-16 Diego Rainis , Marco Polini , M. P. Tosi , G. Vignale

The interaction of electronic spin and molecular vibrations mediated by spin-orbit coupling governs spin relaxation in molecular qubits. I derive an extended molecular spin Hamiltonian that includes both adiabatic and non-adiabatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Philip Shushkov

We explore the structure of momentum distributions of Fermi liquids such as completely polarized 3He, unpolarized liquid 3He, and nuclear matter at nonzero temperatures. The study employs correlated density matrix theory and adapts the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Serhan , M. L. Ristig

The coupled nonlinear coordinate and spin dynamics of an electron in a double quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction is studied semiclassically. The system is driven by an electric field with the frequency matching the orbital or the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

We analyze the fate of spiral order in a one-dimensional system of localized magnetic moments coupled to itinerant electrons under a voltage bias. Within an adiabatic approximation for the dynamics of the localized spins, and in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Xiaohu Han , Pedro Ribeiro , Stefano Chesi