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We have studied the spin transport characteristics of a spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (spin MOSFET), particularly the bias voltage dependence of the electron spin polarization P_S in Si and the magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Shoichi Sato , Masaaki Tanaka , Ryosho Nakane

Interfacial spin-flip scattering plays an important role in magnetoelectronic devices. Spin loss at metallic interfaces is usually quantified by matching the magnetoresistance data for multilayers to the Valet-Fert model, while treating…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 K. D. Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde

Unexpected transport behavior can arise due to anisotropic single-particle scattering in multiband systems. Specifically, we show within a semiclassical Boltzmann approach beyond the relaxation-time approximation that anisotropic scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Maxim Breitkreiz , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

We develop a simple theoretical framework for transport in magnetic multilayers, based on Landauer-Buttiker scattering formalism and Random Matrix Theory. A simple transformation allows one to go from the scattering point of view to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Valentin S. Rychkov , Simone Borlenghi , Henri Jaffres , Albert Fert , Xavier Waintal

The scattering of conduction electrons off neutral donors depends sensitively on the relative orientation of their spin states. We present a theory of spin-dependent scattering in the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) of field effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-25 Rogerio de Sousa , Cheuk Chi Lo , Jeffrey Bokor

We report a mechanical effect in spin-valve nanopillars due to spin transfer. A polarized current carrying electron spins transfers torque to local magnetization and leads to a magnetic switching of free layer. Like classical Einstein-de…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-21 Hao Yu

A WSe$_2$ monolayer shows many interesting properties due to its spin-orbit coupling induced spin splitting in bands around the Fermi level and the spin-valley configuration. The orientation of the spin polarization in the relevant bands is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-02 Hong Tang , Santosh Neupane , Li Yin , Jason M. Breslin , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

We develop a theory of nonlinear low-magnetic-field magnetotransport on a helical edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator due to the edge state coupling to bulk midgap states. We focus on the part of the nonlinear I-V characteristic that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Youjian Chen , Gary Quaresima , Wenjin Zhao , Elliott Runburg , David Cobden , D. A. Pesin

We investigate ballistic spin transport in a two dimensional electron gas system through magnetic barriers of various geometries using the transfer matrix method. While most of the previous studies have focused on the effect of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nammee Kim , Heesang Kim

We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

We study the effect of electron-phonon interactions on the electrical conductance of a helical edge state of a two-dimensional topological insulator. We show that the edge deformation caused by bulk acoustic phonons modifies the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Solofo Groenendijk , Giacomo Dolcetto , Thomas L. Schmidt

We study a robust topological transport carried by vortices in a thin film of an easy-plane ferromagnetic insulator between two metal contacts. A vortex, which is a nonlocal topological spin texture in two-dimensional magnets, exhibits some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Ji Zou , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

This paper shows that the presence of two dynamical regimes, characterized by different precessional-axis, is the origin of the non-monotonic behavior of the output integrated power for large-amplitude magnetization precession driven by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , A. La Corte , G. Consolo , L. Torres , B. Azzerboni

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

Spin-dependent transport through an endohedral fullerene Co@C$_{60}$ dimer with gold electrodes is explored theoretically using density functional and extended H\"{u}ckel theory. Density of states spin polarizations up to 95%, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

The recent experimental conductance measurements taken on magnetic impurities on metallic surfaces, using scanning tunneling microscopy technique and suggesting occurrence of inelastic scattering processes, are theoretically addressed. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 J. Fransson

We study the effect of magnetic scattering on transport in a system with strong structural disorder, using exact finite size calculation of the low frequency optical conductivity. At weak electron-spin coupling spin disorder leads to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Sanjeev Kumar , Pinaki Majumdar

A two-dimensional topological insulator (2DTI) has an insulating bulk and helical spin-polarised edge modes robust to backscattering by non-magnetic disorder. While ballistic transport has been demonstrated in 2DTIs over short distances,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Dimitrie Culcer , Mark T. Edmonds , Michael S. Fuhrer