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We propose a ``spin-guide'' source for generation of electric currents with a high degree of spin polarization, allowing long-distance transmission of the spin-polarization. In the spin-guide scheme proposed here, a non-magnetic conducting…

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We investigate real-time dynamics of spin-polarized current in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in both parallel and antiparallel alignments. While an external bias voltage is taken constant in time, a gate terminal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Fabricio M. Souza , Thiago L. Carrara , E. Vernek

We present a microscopic theory of coherent quantum transport through a superconducting film between two ferromagnetic electrodes. The scattering problem is solved for the general case of ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (FSF)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Milos Bozovic , Zoran Radovic

The ballistic spin-filter effect from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor has theoretically been studied with an intention of detecting the spin polarizability of density of states in FM layer at a higher energy level. The physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Y. H. Li

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie

We theoretically investigate transport in a spin incoherent one dimensional electron system, which may be realized in quantum wires at low electron density and finite temperature. Both the pure and disordered cases are considered, both in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Karyn Le Hur , Leon Balents

There has been much recent research into possible methods of polarizing an antiproton beam, the most promising being spin filtering, the theoretical understanding of which is currently incomplete. The method of polarization buildup by spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-09 D. S. O'Brien

We in this paper study theoretically the spin-polarized quantum transport through a T-shape quantum dot-array by means of transfer-matrix method along with the Green^{,}s function technique. Multi-magnetic fields are used to produce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rui Wang , J. -Q. Liang

Unlike the two-terminal device, in which the time-reversal invariant spin-orbit interaction alone cannot polarize the spins, such a polarization can be generated when electrons from one source reservoir flow into two (or more) separate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Shlomi Matityahu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

We experimentally study the transport features of electrons in a spin-diode structure consisting of a single semiconductor quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to one nonmagnetic (NM) and one ferromagnetic (FM) lead, in which the QD has an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Hamaya , M. Kitabatake , K. Shibata , M. Jung , S. Ishida , T. Taniyama , K. Hirakawa , Y. Arakawa , T. Machida

It has been predicted recently that an electron beam can be polarized when it flows adiabatically through a quantum point contact in a system with spin-orbit interaction. Here, we show that a simple transverse electron focusing setup can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

A mesoscopic spin valve is used to determine the effective spin polarization of electrons tunneling from and into ferromagnetic transition metals at finite voltages. The tunneling spin polarization from the ferromagnet (FM) slowly decreases…

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A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov , P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Odnoblyudov , V. M. Chistyakov , S. A. Tarasenko , I. N. Yassievich

We investigate the enhancement of spin polarization in a quantum wire in the presence of a constriction and a spin-orbit coupling segment. It is shown that the spin-filtering effect is significantly heightened in comparison with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Jun-Feng Liu , Zhi-Cheng Zhong , Lei Chen , Dingping Li , Chao Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

In this work we investigate the spin-dependent transport through a double quantum dot embedded in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction and side attached to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

Enhancement of the electron spin polarization in a correlated two-layer two-dimensional electron system at a total Landau level filling factor of one is reported. Using resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-30 L. Tiemann , W. Wegscheider , M. Hauser

For a linear chain of diamond-like elements, we show that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (which can be tuned by a perpendicular gate voltage) and the Aharonov-Bohm flux (due to a perpendicular magnetic field) can combine to select only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yasuhiro Tokura , Shingo Katsumoto

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Based on Green's function formalism, the existence of multiple mobility edges in a one-dimensional magnetic-non-magnetic superlattice geometry in presence of external electric field is predicted, and, it leads to the possibility of getting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar