English
Related papers

Related papers: Photo-induced pure spin currents in quantum wells

200 papers

We theoretically study direct current generation in a quantum spin chain induced by spinon excitations by light irradiation. We consider a s=1/2 1D antiferromagnetic XXZ model with magnetoelectric coupling that describes multiferroics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Ryosuke Yamashita , Shintaro Takayoshi , Takahiro Morimoto

Circularly polarized light plays a key role in many applications including spectroscopy, microscopy, and control of atomic systems. Particularly in the latter, high polarization purity is often required. Integrated technologies for atomic…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-20 Leonardo Massai , Tom Schatteburg , Jonathan P. Home , Karan K. Mehta

It is shown that the spin orientation of free electrons occurs in low-symmetry semiconductor structures if only the electron gas is driven out of thermal equilibrium with the crystal lattice. The proposed mechanism of such a thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Tarasenko

In this theoretical investigation, we analyze light-induced nonlinear spin Hall currents in a gated single-layer 1T$'$-WTe$_2$, flowing transversely to the incident laser polarization direction. Our study encompasses the exploration of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Pankaj Bhalla , Habib Rostami

The total energy of a quasi-one-dimensional electron system is calculated using density functional theory. It is shown that spontaneous ferromagnetic state in quantum wire occurs at low one-dimensional electron density. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 A. A. Vasilchenko

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

Scalability and foundry compatibility (as for example in conventional silicon based integrated computer processors) in developing quantum technologies are exceptional challenges facing current research. Here we introduce a quantum photonic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-07-20 T-H. Chung , G. Juska , S. T. Moroni , A. Pescaglini , A. Gocalinska , E. Pelucchi

In the framework of optical quantum computing and communications, a major objective consists in building receiving nodes that implement conditional operations on incoming photons, using the interaction with a single stationary qubit. In…

The non-sinusoidal character oscillations appear in the transmitted, reflected and absorbed light fluxes when light pulses irradiate a semiconductor quantum well (QW), containing a large number of the equidistant energy levels of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin , D. A. Contreras-Solorio , S. T. Pavlov

Using photoluminescence microscopy enhanced by MRI, we visualize in real space both electron and nuclear polarization occurring in non-equilibrium FQH liquids. We observe stripe-like regions comprising FQH excited states which discretely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 John N. Moore , Junichiro Hayakawa , Takaaki Mano , Takeshi Noda , Go Yusa

Using circularly polarized light is an alternative to electronic ways for spin injection into materials. Spins are injected at a point of the light illumination, and then diffuse and spread radially due to the in-plane gradient of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Di Fan , Rei Hobara , Ryota Akiyama , Shuji Hasegawa

A system of two quantum wells (QW), one made of HgCdTe and the other of HgCdMnTe, subjected to electric and magnetic fields $F$ and $B$ parallel to the growth direction, is proposed and described theoretically. It is shown that in such a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-21 Pawel Pfeffer , Wlodek Zawadzki

The optical spin orientation effect in a GaAs/(Ga,Al)As quantum well containing a high-mobility 2D electron gas was found to be due to spin-polarized minority carriers, the holes. The observed oscillations of both the intensity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 A. V. Koudinov , R. I. Dzhioev , V. L. Korenev , V. F. Sapega , Yu. G. Kusrayev

The curved space-time around current loops and solenoids carrying arbitrarily large steady electric currents is obtained from the numerical resolution of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations in cylindrical symmetry. The artificial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-19 A. Füzfa

Based on quantum mechanical approach the polarization transport of photons which propagate in a medium with slow varying refractive index is studied. The photon polarizations are separated in opposite directions normal to the ray which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Reza Torabi

We study the photoluminescence from a near-surface quantum well in the regime of ambipolar tunneling to the surface states. Under steady-state excitation an electric field develops self-consistently due to the condition of equal tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Valentina Emiliani , Andrea Frova , Carlo Presilla

By studying the time and spatial evolution of a pulse of the spin polarization in $n$-type semiconductor quantum wells, we highlight the importance of the off-diagonal spin coherence in spin diffusion and transport. Spin oscillations and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu , Q. W. Shi

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The dependence of the excitonic two-photon absorption on the quantum correlations (entanglement) of exciting biphotons by a semiconductor quantum well is studied. We show that entangled photon absorption can display very unusual features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. J. Salazar , D. A. Guzmán , F. J. Rodríguez , L. Quiroga

Recent innovations in fabricating nanoscale confined spin systems have enabled investigation of fundamental quantum correlations between single quanta of photons and matter states. Realization of quantum state transfer from photon…