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We investigate coherent transport through open lateral quantum dots using recursive Green's function technique, incorporating exchange-correlation effects within local spin-density approximation (LSDA). At low electron densities the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko

An electron within a mesoscopic (quantum-coherent) spintronic structure is described by a single wave function which, in the presence of both charge scattering and spin-orbit coupling, encodes an information about {\em entanglement} of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic

We study theoretically some symmetry properties of spin currents and spin polarizations in multi-terminal mesoscopic spin-orbit coupled systems. Based on a scattering wave function approach, we show rigorously that in the equilibrium state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

We propose a Landauer-like theory for nonlinear transport in networks of one-dimensional interacting quantum wires (Luttinger liquids). A concrete example of current experimental focus is given by carbon nanotube Y junctions. Our theory has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Chen , B. Trauzettel , R. Egger

Because of spin-orbit interaction, an electrical current is accompanied by a spin current resulting in spin accumulation near the sample edges. Due again to spin-orbit interaction this causes a small decrease of the sample resistance. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Dyakonov

We study the role of electron-electron interactions for spin polarized transport using the Boltzmann equation and derive a set of coupled transport equations. For spin polarized transport the electron-electron interactions are important,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Thomas Stibius Jensen , Niels Asger Mortensen

We investigate the spin Seebeck effect and spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator and a magnetic impurity deposited on a normal metal. By the numerical renormalization group calculation, we show that spin current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Takeo Kato , Mamoru Matsuo

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

The environmental influence is inevitable but often ignored in the study of electronic transport properties of small-scale systems. Such an environment-mediated interaction can generally be described by a parity-time symmetric non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Sudin Ganguly , Souvik Roy , Santanu K. Maiti

We introduce a distinctive feature of spin-polarized transport, the Spin Coulomb Drag: there is an intrinsic source of friction for spin currents due to the Coulomb interaction between spin ``up'' and spin ``down'' electrons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexander Khaetskii

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

Charge transport through molecular junctions is often described either as a purely coherent or a purely classical phenomenon, and described using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism or Marcus theory, respectively. Using a generalised quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Jakub K. Sowa , Jan A. Mol , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Erik M. Gauger

We study a chaotic quantum transport in the presence of a weak spin-orbit interaction. Our theory covers the whole symmetry crossover regime between time-reversal invariant systems with and without a spin-orbit interaction. This situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Keiji Saito , Taro Nagao

We demonstrate that the combined effect of a spatially periodic potential, lateral confinement and spin-orbit interaction gives rise to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin-polarized currents in two-dimensional coherent conductors. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-07 Matthias Scheid , Andreas Pfund , Dario Bercioux , Klaus Richter

Employing a real time effective action formalism we analyze electron transport and current fluctuations in comparatively short coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that, while Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri S. Golubev , Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We theoretically study the renormalization of inertial effects on the spin dependent transport of conduction electrons in a semiconductor by taking into account the interband mixing on the basis of k.p perturbation theory. In our analysis,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 B. Basu , Debashree Chowdhury

Based on Keldysh's nonequilibrium Green function method, the spin-dependent transport properties in a ferromagnet-quantum dot (QD)-ferromagnet coupled system are investigated. It is shown the spin current shows quite different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai-Feng Mu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng

A didactic description of charge and spin equilibrium currents on mesoscopic rings in the presence of Spin-Orbit interaction is presented. Emphasis is made on the non trivial construction of the correct Hamiltonian in polar coordinates, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Bertrand Berche , Christophe Chatelain , Ernesto Medina