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The spin-transfer effect is investigated for the vortex state of a magnetic nanodot. A spin current is shown to act similarly to an effective magnetic field perpendicular to the nanodot. Then a vortex with magnetization (polarity) parallel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Guy Caputo , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens , Denis D. Sheka

Ever since its discovery, the electron spin has only been measured or manipulated through the application of an electromagnetic force acting on the associated magnetic moment. In this work, we propose a spin Aharonov-Bohm effect in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Joseph Maciejko , Eun-Ah Kim , Xiao-Liang Qi

A scheme of spin diode is proposed that uses a step-like quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, connected to two leads with different width. It is shown that a very large vertical spin-polarized current can be generated when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

We apply an analysis of time-dependent spin-polarized current in a semiconductor channel at room temperature to establish how the magnetization configuration and dynamics of three ferromagnetic terminals, two of them biased and third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , L. J. Sham

It has been shown that tunneling of spin-polarized electrons through a semiconductor barrier is accompanied by generation of an electric current in the plane of the interfaces. The direction of this interface current is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Tarasenko , V. I. Perel' , I. N. Yassievich

A theory of spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors is developed and applied to magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions. Several phenomena with possible spintronic applications are predicted, including spinvoltaic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

A theory of the magnetic field driven (semi-)metal-insulator phase transition is developed for planar systems with a low density of carriers and a linear (i.e., relativistic like) dispersion relation for low energy quasiparticles. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

Manipulation of directional magnon propagation, known as magnon spin current, is essential for developing magnonic memory and logic devices featuring nonvolatile functionalities and ultralow power consumption. Magnon spin current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Kaili Li , Lei Wang , Yu Wang , Yuanjun Guo , Shuping Lv , Yuewei He , Weiwei Lin , Tai Min , Shaojie Hu , Sen Yang , Dezhen Xue , Aqun Zheng , Shuming Yang , Xiangdong Ding

Injecting spins into a semiconductor channel and transforming the spin information into a significant electrical output signal is a long standing problem in spintronics. Actually, this is the prerequisite of several concepts of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Fert , J. -M. George , H. Jaffres , R. Mattana

The transport property of a lateral two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor electron gas under a spatially periodic magnetic field is investigated theoretically. We find that the electron Fermi velocity along the modulation direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng

Spin-dependent transport was investigated in a spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (spin MOSFET) with ferromagnetic MnAs source and drain (S/D) contacts. The spin MOSFET of bottom-gate type was fabricated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-02 Ryosho. Nakane , Tomoyuki Harada , Kuniaki Sugiura , Satoshi Sugahara , Masaaki Tanaka

In Maxwellian electrodynamics, specific properties of the responses to external fields are included in constitutive equations. For noncentrosymmetric semiconductors, spin conductivity can be expressed in terms of the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel I. Rashba

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

A domain wall separating two oppositely magnetized regions in a ferromagnetic semiconductor exhibits, under appropriate conditions, strongly nonlinear I-V characteristics similar to those of a p-n diode. We study these characteristics as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Vignale , M. E. Flatte'

A hybrid ferromagnet-superconductor spin valve is proposed. Its operation relies on the interplay between nonequilibrium transport and proximity-induced exchange coupling in superconductors. Huge tunnel magnetoresistance values as large as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

We summarize our recent findings on how current-driven magnetization switching and magnetoresistance in nanofabricated magnetic multilayers are affected by varying the spin-scattering properties of the non-magnetic spacers, the relative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , H. Kurt , M. AlHajDarwish , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

Spin-orbit torque is a promising mechanism for writing magnetic memories, while field-effect transistors are the gold-standard device for logic operation. The spin-orbit torque field effect transistor (SOTFET) is a proposed device that…

In a collinear antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy, symmetry dictates that the spin wave modes must be doubly degenerate. Theses two modes, distinguished by their opposite polarization and available only in antiferromagnets, give rise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 Ran Cheng , Matthew W. Daniels , Jian-Gang Zhu , Di Xiao

A "spin-flip transistor" is a lateral spin valve consisting of ferromagnetic source drain contacts to a thin-film normal-metal island with an electrically floating ferromagnetic base contact on top. We analyze the \emph{dc}-current-driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xuhui Wang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Axel Hoffmann

We have investigated the spin current polarization without the external magnetic field in the resonant tunneling diode with the emitter and quantum well layers made from the ferromagnetic GaMnN. For this purpose we have applied the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski , M. Wołoszyn , B. J. Spisak