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We develop a mesoscale transport theory for the charge and spin degrees of freedom of itinerant carriers in a $d$-wave altermagnet. Our effective Lagrangian description is built upon the slave-boson formulation of the microscopic $t-J$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ricardo Zarzuela , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Olena Gomonay , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

The resistivity scaling of metals is a crucial limiting factor for further downscaling of interconnects in nanoelectronic devices that affects signal delay, heat production, and energy consumption. Here, we generalize a commonly considered…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-29 Kristof Moors , Kiroubanand Sankaran , Geoffrey Pourtois , Christoph Adelmann

The understanding and calculation of spin transport are essential elements for the development of spintronics devices. Here, we propose a simple method to calculate analytically the spin accumulations, spin currents and magnetoresistances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 W. Savero Torres , A. Marty , P. Laczkowski , L. Vila , M. Jamet , J-P. Attané

We investigate energy transport in several two-level atom or spin-1/2 models by a direct coupling to heat baths of different temperatures. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a recently derived quantum master equation which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mathias Michel , Ortwin Hess , Hannu Wichterich , Jochen Gemmer

Spin-based computing is emerging as a powerful approach for energy-efficient and high-performance solutions to future data processing hardware. Spintronic devices function by electrically manipulating the collective dynamics of the electron…

We present a comprehensive theory of spin transport in a non-degenerate semiconductor that is in contact with multiple ferromagnetic terminals. The spin dynamics in the semiconductor is studied during a perturbation of a general,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Yang Song , Hanan Dery

Materials with spin-momentum locked surface or interface states provide an interesting playground for studying physics and application of charge-spin current conversion. To characterize their non-equilibrium magnetic and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ping Tang , Xiufeng Han , Shufeng Zhang

Anisotropic electronic transport is a possible route towards nanoscale circuitry design, particularly in two-dimensional materials. Proposals to introduce such a feature in patterned graphene have to date relied on large-scale structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Soren Schou Gregersen , Jose H. Garcia , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephan Roche , Stephen R. Power

The ability of spintronic devices to utilize an electric current for manipulating the magnetization has resulted in large-scale developments, such as, magnetic random access memories and boosted the spintronic research area. In this regard,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rajagopalan Ramaswamy , Jong Min Lee , Kaiming Cai , Hyunsoo Yang

One of the major industrial challenges is to profit from some fascinating physical features present at the nanoscale. The production of dissipationless nanoswitches (or nanocontacts) is one of such attractive applications. Nevertheless, the…

This article discusses spin transport in systems with spin-orbit interactions and how it can be understood in a semiclassical picture. I will first present a semiclassical wave-packet description of spin transport, which explains how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 Dimitrie Culcer

Semiclassical theories of electron and spin transport in metallic magnetic structures are reviewed with emphasis on the role of disorder and electronic band structures in the current perpendicular to the interface plane (CPP) transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yuli V. Nazarov , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Arne Brataas , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

We propose cotunneling as the microscopic mechanism that makes possible inelastic electron spectroscopy of magnetic atoms in surfaces for a wide range of systems, including single magnetic adatoms, molecules and molecular stacks. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We develop a theory of spin noise in semiconductor nanowires considered as prospective elements for spintronics. In these structures spin-orbit coupling can be realized as a random function of coordinate correlated on the spatial scale of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

We analyze transport of local magnetization and develop schemes to control transport behavior in finite spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains and spin-1/2 Heisenberg two-leg ladders at zero temperature. By adjusting parameters in the Hamiltonians,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. F. Santos

We generalize magnetoelectronic circuit theory to account for spin transfer to and from the atomic lattice via interfacial spin-orbit coupling. This enables a proper treatment of spin transport at interfaces between a ferromagnet and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Explicit energy-transport equations for the spinorial carrier transport in ferromagnetic semiconductors are calculated from a general spin energy-transport system that was derived by Ben Abdallah and El Hajj from a spinorial Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Ansgar Jüngel , Polina Shpartko , Nicola Zamponi

High fidelity quantum information transport is necessary for most practical models of quantum computation. By analogy with optical wave guides, a spatio-temporally varying magnetic potential on a one dimensional spin chain can achieve high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Muhammad H. Ahmed , Andrew D. Greentree

In this article, a few problems related to multiscale modelling of magnetic materials at finite temperatures and possible ways of solving these problems are discussed. The discussion is mainly centred around two established multiscale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Doghonay Arjmand , Mikhail Poluektov , Gunilla Kreiss