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Theoretical calculations predict the dissipationless circulating current induced by a spin defect in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. The shape and spatial extent of these dissipationless circulating currents depend…

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Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

We propose the idea of a "spinguide", i.e. the semiconductor channel which is surrounded with walls from the diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) with the giant Zeeman splitting which are transparent for electrons with the one spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky

A magnetic "spin filter" tunnel barrier, sandwiched between a non-magnetic metal and a magnetic metal, is used to create a new magnetoresistive tunnel device, somewhat analogous to an optical polarizer-analyzer configuration. The resistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 P. LeClair , J. K. Ha , H. J. M. Swagten , C. H. van de Vin , J. T. Kohlhepp , W. J. M. de Jonge

The effect of polarization rotation on the performance of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors was investigated with a Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory based model. In this analytical model, depolarization field, polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-06 Yubo Qi , Andrew M. Rappe

We propose an intrinsic nonlinear spin Hall effect, which enables the generation of collinearly-polarized spin current in a large class of nonmagnetic materials with the corresponding linear response being symmetry-forbidden. This opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Hui Wang , Huiying Liu , Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Shen Lai , Weibo Gao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We demonstrate theoretically that the spin polarization of current can be electrically amplified within nonmagnetic semiconductors by exploiting the fact the spin current, compared to the charge current, is weakly perturbed by electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -W. Jung , H. -W. Lee

We study the effect of magnetic field on the properties of a high mobility gated two-dimensional electron gas in a field effect transistor with the Hall bar geometry. When approaching the current saturation when the drain side of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 N. Dyakonova , M. Dyakonov , Z. D. Kvon

We predict the very large spin Hall effect in type-II superconductors which mechanism is drastically different from the previously known ones. We find that in the flux-flow regime the spin is transported by the spin-polarized Abrikosov…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-12 Artjom Vargunin , Mikhail Silaev

We explore electron transport in a thin cylinder, attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes, in the presence of both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fluxes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

A mechanism to generate a spin-polarized current in a two-terminal zigzag silicene nanoribbon is predicted. As a weak local exchange field that is parallel to the surface of silicene is applied on one of edges of the silicene nanoribbon, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

In metallic systems with spin-orbit coupling a longitudinal charge current may generate a transverse pure spin current; vice-versa an injected pure spin current may result in a transverse charge current. Such direct and inverse spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Cosimo Gorini

Spin-polarized transport through a marginal Fermi liquid (MFL) which is connected to two noncollinear ferromagnets via tunnel junctions is discussed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green function approach. It is found that the…

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

It is shown that external magnetic field or magnetization induces electric polarization of microscopic isolated magnetic/non-magnetic hybrid structures due to the spin-dependent electron redistribution and mutual capacity. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

A new proposal is given to design a spin half-adder in a nano-junction. It is well known that at finite voltage a net circulating current (known as circular current) appears within a mesoscopic ring under asymmetric ring-to-electrode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Moumita Patra

A superconductor with broken time reversal and inversion symmetry may exhibit nonreciprocal charge transport, including a nonreciprocal critical current, also known as superconducting diode effect. We report an intrinsic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-30 Robert Kealhofer , Hanbyeol Jeong , Arman Rashidi , Leon Balents , Susanne Stemmer

The spin-orbit interaction is frequently the mechanism by which spin and charge are coupled for spintronic applications. The discovery of spin, a century ago, relied on spin-charge coupling by a magnetic field gradient; this mechanism has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicholas J. Harmon , Emma Z. Kurth , Dana Coleman , Lana Flanigan