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Theory of the ac spin injection from a ferromagnetic electrode into a normal conductor through a tunnel or Schottky contact is developed. Diffusion and relaxation of non-equilibrium spins results in a frequency dependent complex impedance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Emmanuel I. Rashba

A drift-diffusion model for spin-charge transport in spin-polarized {\it p-n} junctions is developed and solved numerically for a realistic set of material parameters based on GaAs. It is demonstrated that spin polarization can be injected…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-flip and spin-transfer torque were numerically solved using a finite element method in complex non-collinear geometry with strongly inhomogeneous current flow. As an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , N. Ryzhanova , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , N. de Mestier , C. Baraduc , B. Dieny

Insulating materials with dynamical spin degrees of freedom have recently emerged as viable conduits for spin flows. Transport phenomena harbored therein are, however, turning out to be much richer than initially envisioned. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin transport properties of the one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin systems for both $S=1/2$ and S=1 are studied by applying twisted boundary magnetic field. The spin current displays significantly different behavior of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Zhuo , Xiaoqun Wang , Yupeng Wang

The coherent tunneling spin current in the bilayer system with spin-orbit coupling is investigated. Based on the continuity-like equations, we discuss the definition of the tunneling current and show that the overlaps between wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-12 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

This work explores the role of the displacement current in systems beyond capacitors, focusing on coaxial cables and resistors with alternating currents. Although its contribution, compared to that of the conduction current, is negligible…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-04-08 Alvaro Suarez , Arturo C. Marti , Martín Monteiro

The dynamics of the magnetic order parameters of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet spin valves and isolated ferromagnets may be very different. We investigate the role of the nonequilibrium spin-current exchange between the ferromagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The infuence of the conduction-electron spin magnetization density, induced in a two-dimensional electron layer by a microwave electromagnetic field, on the rejection and transmission of the field is considered. Because of the induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Victor M. Edelstein

Insertion of a resistive contact between a ferromagnetic metal and a semiconductor microstructure is of critical importance for achieving efficient spin injection into a semiconductor. However, the equations of the diffusion theory are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Using scanning Kerr microscopy, we directly acquire two-dimensional images of spin-polarized electrons flowing laterally in bulk epilayers of n:GaAs. Optical injection provides a local dc source of polarized electrons, whose subsequent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Crooker , D. L. Smith

Recently, dissipationless spin current has been predicted for the p-doped semiconductors with spin-orbit coupling. Here we investigate the effect of spherical symmetry breaking on the dissipationless spin current, and obtain values of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Bogdan A. Bernevig , JiangPing Hu , Eran Mukamel , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The electrical injection of spin polarized electrons in a semiconductor can be achieved in principle by driving a current from a ferromagnetic metal, where current is known to be significantly spin polarized, into the semiconductor via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Filip , B. H. Hoving , F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees

The description of interacting many-electron systems in external magnetic fields is considered in the framework of the optimized effective potential method extended to current-spin-density functional theory. As a case study, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-14 N. Helbig , S. Kurth , S. Pittalis , E. Räsänen , E. K. U. Gross

Thermal and electrical injection and transport of magnon spins in magnetic insulators is conventionally understood by the non-equilibrium population of magnons. However, this view is challenged by several recent experiments in noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiyin Ye , Tao Yu

In a recent remarkable experiment [P. Roushan et al., Nature Physics 13, 146 (2017)], a spin current in an architecture of three superconducting qubits was produced during a few microseconds by creating synthetic magnetic fields. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Manas Kulkarni , Sven M. Hein , Eliot Kapit , Camille Aron

It is certain that electrical properties-whether slow (sec) or fast (nsec), even optical (fsec)-are described by Maxwell's equations, and there are terms that depend on the rate of change of the electric and magnetic fields. In particular,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 David K. Ferry , Xavier Oriols , Robert Eisenberg

The influence of the fractal clusters of a normal phase, which act as pinning centers, on the dynamics of magnetic flux in percolative type-II superconductor is considered. The voltage-current characteristics of such a superconductor are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuriy I. Kuzmin

By generalizing the usual current density to a matrix with respect to spin variables, a general equation of continuity satisfied by the density matrix and current density matrix has been derived. This equation holds in arbitrary spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Hua-Tong Yang , Chengshi Liu

Conventional spin pumping, driven by magnetization dynamics, is longitudinal since the pumped spin current flows normal to the interface between the ferromagnet and the conductor. We predict \textit{Hall-type/transverse} and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ping Li , Chengyuan Cai , Tao Yu
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