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Recently, we developed an \textit{ab initio} approach of spin lifetime (\tau_{s}) and spin diffusion length (l_{s}) in solids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 046705 (2025)], based on a density-matrix master equation with quantum treatment of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Junqing Xu , Can Liu , Weiwei Chen

Resolving the conductance of the topological surface states (TSSs) from the bulk contribution has been a great challenge for studying the transport property of topological insulators. By developing a non-purturbative diffusion equation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

Space- and time-resolved measurements of spin drift and diffusion are performed on a GaAs-hosted two-dimensional electron gas. For spins where forward drift is compensated by backward diffusion, we find a precession frequency in absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 P. Altmann , F. G. G. Hernandez , G. J. Ferreira , M. Kohda , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

We study high temperature spin transport in a disordered Heisenberg chain in the ergodic regime. By employing a density matrix renormalization group technique for the study of the stationary states of the boundary-driven Lindblad equation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-27 Marko Znidaric , Antonello Scardicchio , Vipin Kerala Varma

Energy spectrum and thermodynamics of the pseudospin-electron model introduced at the consideration of the anharmonicity effects in high-$T_c$ superconductors are investigated in the dynamical mean field approximation ($d=\infty$ limit). In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-13 I. V. Stasyuk , A. M. Shvaika

We investigate nonequilibrium phenomena in magnetic nano-junctions using a numerical approach that combines classical spin dynamics with the hierarchical equations of motion technique for quantum dynamics of conduction electrons. Our focus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rudolf Smorka , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

We consider relaxation of an electron spin in a nanotube quantum dot due to its coupling to flexural phonon modes, and identify a new spin-orbit mediated coupling between the nanotube deflection and the electron spin. This mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mark S. Rudner , Emmanuel I. Rashba

The semiclassical path integral method has been applied for studying spin relaxation in a narrow 2D strip with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Our numerical calculations show a good agreement with the experimental data, although some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheng-Hung Chang , Jengjan Tsai , Hui-Fen Lo , A. G. Mal'shukov

The leading superconducting instabilities of the two-dimensional extended repulsive one-band Hubbard model within spin-fluctuation pairing theory depend sensitively on electron density, band and interaction parameters. We map out the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-02 Mercè Roig , Astrid T. Rømer , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

We measure the spin-resolved transport of dipolar excitons in a biased GaAs double quantum well structure. From these measurements we extract both spin lifetime and mobility of the excitons. We find that below a temperature of $4.8$K, there…

Understanding the timescales associated with relaxation to equilibrium in closed quantum many-body systems is one of the central focuses in the study of their non-equilibrium dynamics. At late times, these relaxation processes exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-19 Kadir Çeven , Lukas Peinemann , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

We introduce a network model to describe two-dimensional disordered electron systems with spin-orbit scattering. The network model is defined by a discrete unitary time evolution operator. We establish by numerical transfer matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rainer Merkt , Martin Janssen , Bodo Huckestein

Based on kinetic equations for the density matrix, drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Universal results are obtained for the weak coupling case. Most interesting is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Bryksin , P. Kleinert

Improved fabrication techniques have enabled the possibility of ballistic transport and unprecedented spin manipulation in ultraclean graphene devices. Spin transport in graphene is typically probed in a nonlocal spin valve and is analyzed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Aron W. Cummings , Stephen R. Power , Christoph W. Groth , Xavier Waintal , Stephan Roche

Molecular spin qubits offer a versatile platform for quantum information processing due to their synthetic tunability and well-defined electronic structure. Here, a fitted-parameter-free computational framework combining density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Neil Iyer

Prospect of building electronic devices in which electron spins store and transport information has revived interest in the spin relaxation of conduction electrons. Since spin-polarized currents cannot flow indefinitely, basic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

We consider properties of a two-dimensional electron system in a random magnetic field. It is assumed that the magnetic field not only influences orbital electron motion but also acts on the electron spin. For calculations, we suggest a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Takahashi , K. B. Efetov

We present an effective field theory for a unified description of transport in normal and superconducting metals in the presence of generic spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The structure of the quantum kinetic theory in the diffusive regime is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Tim Kokkeler , F. Sebastian Bergeret , Ilya Tokatly

The energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron systems is studied in the diffusive regime. We derived the quantum kinetic equation in which the kernel of electron-electron collision integral explicitly depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-05 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , I. S. Burmistrov

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