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We investigate spin-polarized transport phenomena through double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads in series. By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we calculate the conductance in the Kondo regime for two different…

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We demonstrate the method to calculate the spatial distributions of the spin current and accumulation in the multi-terminal ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic hybrid structure using an approximate electro-transmission line. The analyses based on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Kimura , J. Hamrle , Y. Otani

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

We develop a linear theory of electron transport for a system of two identical quantum wires in a wide range of the wire length L, unifying both the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. The microscopic model, involving the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We study the generation of non-equilibrium spin currents in systems with spatially-inhomogeneous magnetic potentials. For sufficiently high current densities, the spin polarization can be transported over distances significantly exceeding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivar Martin

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

Spin transport equations in a non-homogeneous ferromagnet are derived in the limit where the sd exchange coupling between the electrons in the conduction band and those in the d band is dominant. It is shown that spin diffusion in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Benakli , J. Hohlfeld , A. Rebei

A novel scheme for spin filters is proposed by studying the coherent transport of electrons through the quantum wires with lateral magnetic modulations. Unlike other schemes in the literature, the modulation in our scheme is much weaker…

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

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

The paper reviews the theory of the long-distance spin superfluid transport in solid ferro- and antiferromagnets based on the analysis of the topology, the Landau criterion, and phase slips. Experiments reporting evidence of the existence…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 E. B. Sonin

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

Drift-diffusion theory - which fully describes charge transport in semiconductors - is also universally used to model transport of spin-polarized electrons in the presence of longitudinal electric fields. By transforming spin transit time…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-21 Biqin Huang , Ian Appelbaum

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

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

We propose a simple scheme for the spin filter by studying the coherent transport of electrons through a double-bend structure in a quantum wire with a weak lateral magnetic potential which is much weaker than the Fermi energy of the leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. W. Shi , J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

The effect of spin-disorder scattering on perpendicular transport in a magnetic monolayer is considered within the single-site Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA). The exchange interaction between a conduction electron and localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We develop a drift-diffusion equation that describes electron spin polarization density in two-dimensional electron systems. In our approach, superpositions of spin-up and spin-down states are taken into account, what distinguishes our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Pershin