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It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman

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

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

Spin current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

This is an overview of current-induced spin polarization in gyrotropic semiconductor nanostructures. Such a spin polarization as response to a charge current may be classified as the inverse of the spin-galvanic effect, and sometimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Sergey D. Ganichev , Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

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

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

Recently there have been significant interests in the spin hydrodynamic generation phenomenon from multiple disciplines of physics. Such phenomenon arises from global polarization effect of microscopic spin by macroscopic fluid rotation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Xingyu Guo , Jinfeng Liao , Enke Wang

Pure spin currents are measured in micron-wide channels of GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Spins are injected and detected using quantum point contacts, which become spin polarized at high magnetic field. High sensitivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Frolov , A. Venkatesan , W. Yu , W. Wegscheider , J. A. Folk

We evaluate the spin polarization (Edelstein or inverse spin galvanic effect) and the spin Hall current induced by an applied electric field by including the weak localization corrections for a two-dimensional electron gas. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Daniele Guerci , Juan Borge , Roberto Raimondi

Laser radiation incident on a ferromagnetic sample produces excited electrons and currents whose spin polarization must not be aligned with the magnetization -- an effect due to spin-orbit coupling that is ubiquitous in spin- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

We evaluate the charge and longitudinal spin response functions of a two-dimensional electron gas with $e^2/r$ interactions in an arbitrary state of spin polarization, using a structurally self-consistent approach to treat exchange and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

Nonlinear spin polarization occurring in the second order of driving electric current is the dominant source of nonequilibrium magnetization in centrosymmetric or weakly noncentrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and induces nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ruda Guo , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaoxin Yang , Yi Liu , Cong Xiao , Zhe Yuan

We show that electrons recolliding with the ionic core upon tunnel ionization of noble gas atoms driven by a strong circularly polarized laser field in combination with a counter-rotating second harmonic are spin polarized and that their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David Ayuso , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Felipe Morales , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

We show that the electron spin polarization generated by an electrical current may have its direction controlled and magnitude amplified by periodic optical excitation. The electrical and optical spin control methods were combined and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Felix G. G. Hernandez , Gennady M. Gusev , Askhat K. Bakarov

Spontaneous nuclear polarization is predicted in double quantum dots in the spin-blocked electron transport regime. The polarization results from an instability of the zero-polarization state when singlet and triplet electron energy levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 M. S. Rudner , L. S. Levitov

We analyze the effect known as "spin current swapping" (SCS) due to electron-impurity scattering in a uniform spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas. In this effect a primary spin current $J_i^a$ (lower index for spatial direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ka Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

We consider a thin-film normal metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Asle Sudbø