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We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and precesses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Milena Filipovic , Cecilia Holmqvist , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We examine transport through a quantum dot coupled to three ferromagnetic leads in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. A finite source-drain voltage generates a nonequilibrium spin on the otherwise non-magnetic quantum dot. This spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Daniel Urban , Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

We discuss a spin-transfer torque device, where the role of the soft ferromagnetic layer is played by a magnetic particle or a magnetic molecule, in weak tunnel contact with two spin polarized leads. We investigate if the magnetization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 P. Gartland , D. Davidovic

A slanting magnetic field is usually used to realize a slight hybridization between the spin and orbital degrees of freedom in a semiconductor quantum dot, such that the spin is manipulable by an external oscillating electric field. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Rui Li

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface leads to a splitting of the superconducting density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-21 Tero T Heikkilä , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastian Bergeret

One of the hallmarks of spintronics is the control of magnetic moments by electric fields enabled by strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in semiconductors. A powerful way of manipulating spins in such structures is electric dipole induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara

We investigate spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through a system of two coupled quantum dots attached to reservoirs of spin-polarized electrons. Generally, we focus on the strongly correlated regime of transport. To this end, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Łukasz Karwacki , Piotr Trocha

Twisted magnetic van der Waals materials provide a flexible platform to engineer new forms of unconventional magnetism. Here we demonstrate the emergence of electrically tunable topological moir\'e magnetism in twisted bilayers of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Tiago V. C. Antão , Jose L. Lado , Adolfo O. Fumega

Two channels of the sd exchange interaction are considered in magnetic junctions. The first channel describes the interaction of transversal spins with the lattice magnetization. The second one describes the interaction of longitudinal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-22 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We report measurements of spin-dependent scattering of conduction electrons by neutral donors in an accumulation-mode field-effect transistor formed in isotopically enriched silicon. Spin-dependent scattering was detected using electrically…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. C. Lo , J. Bokor , T. Schenkel , A. M. Tyryshkin , S. A. Lyon

Electron transport through a one-dimensional ring connected with two external leads, in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of strength \alpha and a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. Applying Griffith's boundary conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Molnar , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie

The electron spin in a semiconductor quantum dot can be coherently controlled by an external electric field, an effect called electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR). Several mechanisms can give rise to the EDSR effect, among which there is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Rui Li

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianmin Sun , Suhas Gangadharaiah , Oleg A. Starykh

We study the spin-spin interaction between quantum dots coupled through a two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction. We show that the interplay between transverse electron focusing and spin-orbit coupling allows to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

A numerically exact calculation of the T=0 transport properties of a quantum wire interacting with a lateral two-level quantum dot is presented. The wire conductance is calculated for all different states of charge and spin of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria A. Davidovich , E. V. Anda , C. A. Busser , G. Chiappe

We calculate spin transport in two-dimensional waveguides in the presence of spatially modulated Zeeman-split energy bands. We show that in a regime where the spin evolution is predominantly adiabatic the spin backscattering rate can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Henri Saarikoski , Tobias Dollinger , Klaus Richter