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Along with the progress of spin science and spintronics research, the flow of electron spins, (i.e. spin current), has attracted interest. New phenomena and electronic states were explained in succession using the concept of spin current.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Sadamichi Maekawa , Takashi Kikkawa , Hiroyuki Chudo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh

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

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

We calculate the dephasing rate of the electrons in the presence of interactions and elastic spin disorder scattering. In the frame of a self-consistent diagrammatic treatment, we obtain saturation of the dephasing rate in the limit of zero…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 George Kastrinakis

Treating Coulomb scattering of two free electrons in a stationary approach, we explore the momentum and spin entanglement created by the interaction. We show that a particular discretisation provides an estimate of the von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Peter Schattschneider , Stefan Löffler , Herbert Gollisch , Roland Feder

In this work, we study the scattering of a spinless charged particle constrained to move on a curved surface in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We begin with the equations of motion for the surface and transverse dynamics…

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

We theoretically investigate a scattering configuration in Compton scattering, in which the orientation of the electron spin is reversed and simultaneously, the photon polarization changes from linear polarization into circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Sven Ahrens , Chang-Pu Sun

The relativistic scattering of a spin-1/2 particle from an infinitely long solenoid is considered in the framework of covariant perturbation theory. The first order term agrees with the corresponding term in the series expansion of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boz , N. K. Pak

In this article, we have discussed about the scattering of charge and spin in spin-resolved mesoscopic systems. We have proposed a method to generate and detect the entanglement of electronic spin and electronic orbital degrees of freedom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bibek Bhandari

In this paper the relativistic quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 neutral particle with a magnetic moment $\mu$ in the cosmic string spacetime is reexamined by applying the von Neumann theory of self--adjoint extensions. Contrary to previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

We consider a mesoscopic {\it ballistic} structure with Rashba spin-orbit splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Khaetskii , Eugene Sukhorukov

We obtain explicit expressions for the correlation functions of transmission and reflection coefficients of coherent electronic waves propagating through a disordered quasi-one-dimensional medium with purely elastic diffusive scattering in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. S. Macedo

The conventional definition of spin current is incomplete and unphysical in describing spin transport in systems with spin-orbit coupling. A proper and measurable spin current is established in this study, which fits well into the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junren Shi , Ping Zhang , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

We show that the spin-current response of a semiconductor crystal to an external electric field is considerably more complex than previously assumed. While in systems of high symmetry only the spin-Hall components are allowed, in systems of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

We present a non-perturbative expression for the scattering matrix of $N$ particles interacting inside a quantum dot. Characterizing the dot by its resonances, we find a compact form for the scattering matrix in a real-time representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-10 A. V. Lebedev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

We study theoretically some symmetry properties of spin currents and spin polarizations in multi-terminal mesoscopic spin-orbit coupled systems. Based on a scattering wave function approach, we show rigorously that in the equilibrium state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

We introduce an integrable model of spin-polarized interacting electrons subject to a spin-conserving spin-orbit interaction. Using Bethe Ansatz and conformal field theory we calculate the exact large-time single-electron and density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-03 A. A. Zvyagin , H. Johannesson

The spin 0 generalized phase space approach provides a general expression for local current which depends on the choice of distribution function and generally deviates from the Schrodinger current. It is shown that the continuity equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Peter Holland

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength. Using the spin-generalized method of partial waves the scattering amplitude is exactly derived for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 András Pályi , Csaba Péterfalvi , József Cserti