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Control over quantum systems is typically achieved by time-dependent electric or magnetic fields. Alternatively, electronic spins can be controlled by spin-polarized currents. Here we demonstrate coherent driving of a single spin by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Stepan Kovarik , Richard Schlitz , Aishwarya Vishwakarma , Dominic Ruckert , Pietro Gambardella , Sebastian Stepanow

We demonstrate theoretically that in gyrotropic semiconductors and semiconductor nanosystems the Brownian motion of electrons results in temporal fluctuations of the polarization plane of light passing through or reflected from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 D. S. Smirnov , M. M. Glazov

We propose a mechanism whereby spin supercurrents can be manipulated in superconductor/ferromagnet proximity systems via nonequilibrium spin injection. We find that if a spin supercurrent exists in equilibrium, a nonequilibrium spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-14 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jason W. A. Robinson , Jacob Linder

A novel spin orientation mechanism - dynamic electron spin polarization has been recently suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 156801 (2020). It takes place for unpolarized optical excitation in weak magnetic fields of the order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. S. Shamirzaev , A. V. Shumilin , D. S. Smirnov , J. Rautert , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

Coherent spin oscillations were non-thermally induced by circularly polarized pulses in fully compensated antiferromagnetic NiO. This effect is attributed to an entirely new mechanism of the action, on the spins, of the effective magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-18 Takuya Satoh , Sung-Jin Cho , Ryugo Iida , Tsutomu Shimura , Kazuo Kuroda , Hiroaki Ueda , Yutaka Ueda , B. A. Ivanov , Franco Nori , Manfred Fiebig

Full electric-field control of spin orientations is one of the key tasks in semiconductor spintronics. We demonstrate that electric field pulses can be utilized for phase-coherent +/- pi spin rotation of optically generated electron spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 S. Kuhlen , K. Schmalbuch , M. Hagedorn , P. Schlammes , M. Patt , M. Lepsa , G. Güntherodt , B. Beschoten

Several recent experiments on three-dimensional topological insulators claim to observe a large charge current-induced non-equilibrium ensemble spin polarization of electrons in the helical surface state. We present a comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Pengke Li , Ian Appelbaum

Electrically generated spin polarization is probed directly in bulk GaN using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. A series of n-type GaN epilayers are grown in the wurtzite phase both by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. F. Koehl , M. H. Wong , C. Poblenz , B. Swenson , U. K. Mishra , J. S. Speck , D. D. Awschalom

We consider a double quantum dot system with two embedded and non-aligned spin impurities to manipulate the magnitude and polarization of the electron spin density. The device is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional leads which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gianluca Stefanucci , Enrico Perfetto , Michele Cini

Electron spin resonance (ESR) is a useful tool to investigate properties of materials in magnetic fields where high spin polarization of target electron spins is required in order to obtain high sensitivity. However, the smaller magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Shingo Kukita , Hideaki Ookane , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Yasushi Kondo

Spin injection and detection in silicon is a difficult problem, in part because the weak spin-orbit coupling and indirect gap preclude using standard optical techniques. We propose two ways to overcome this difficulty, and illustrate their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin

We observe the noise spectrum of electron spins in bulk GaAs by Faraday rotation noise spectroscopy. The experimental technique enables the undisturbed measurement of the electron spin dynamics in semiconductors. We measure exemplarily the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Oestreich , M. Roemer , R. J. Haug , D. Haegele

One-dimensional quantum wires are considered as prospective elements for spin transport and manipulation in spintronics. We study spin dynamics in semiconductor GaAs-like nanowires with disorder and spin-orbit interaction by using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carlos Echeverría-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

In this paper we show that it is possible to switch the spin polarization of the photocurrent signal obtained from a single self-assembled quantum dot photodiode under the effect of elliptically polarized light by just increasing the light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Villas-Boas , Sergio E. Ulloa , A. O. Govorov

Semiclassical solutions of two-dimensional Schrodinger equation with spin-orbit interaction and smooth potential are considered. In the leading order, spin polarization is in-plane and follows the evolution of the electron momentum for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Propagating, directionally dependent, polarized spin-currents are created in an anisotropic planar semiconductor microcavity, via Rayleigh scattering of optically injected polaritons in the optical spin Hall regime. The influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 A. Amo , T. C. H. Liew , C. Adrados , E. Giacobino , A. V. Kavokin , A. Bramati

It is shown that absorption of circularly polarized infrared radiation due to intraband (Drude-like) transitions in n-type bulk semiconductors and due to intra-subband or inter-subband transitions in quantum well (QW) structures results in…

In spin-polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin-charge coupling. The current conversion between the minority (as referred to carriers and not spin) and majority carriers leads to novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic

We study spin transport in forward and reverse biased junctions between a ferromagnetic metal and a degenerate semiconductor with a delta-doped layer near the interface at relatively low temperatures. We show that spin polarization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Osipov , A. M. Bratkovsky