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Spin-dependent transport through an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetizations is analyzed theoretically. The transport properties and average spin of the dot are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Rudzinski , J. Barnas , R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski

An effective spin relaxation mechanism that leads to electron spin decoherence in a quantum dot is proposed. In contrast to the common calculations of spin-flip transitions between the Kramers doublets, we take into account a process of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim

We theoretically explore the possibility of creating spin quantum entanglement in a system of two electrons confined respectively in two vertically coupled quantum dots in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nan Zhao , L. Zhong , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We study effects of the shape of a two-dimensional waveguide on the spin-dependent electron transport in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. The transition from classical motion to the tunneling regime can be controlled there by modulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Yue Ban , E. Ya. Sherman

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We present an exact, analytic solution of the spin dependent quantum transport problem with spin-orbit interaction in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with one input and two output leads. We demonstrate that for appropriate parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

Account of an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the valence bands of common semiconductors yields the scalar spin-orbit-rotation term in the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the conduction-band electron. This result is obtained within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri A. Serebrennikov

We propose a scheme for electrical measurement of two-electron spin states in a semiconductor double quantum dot. We calculated the adiabatic charge transfer when surface gates are modulated in time. Because of spin-orbit coupling in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Hiroshi Imamura , Hideo Kosaka

We show how the quantum Hall effect in an inverted-gap semiconductor (with electron- and hole-like states at the conduction- and valence-band edges interchanged) can be used to inject, precess, and detect the electron spin along a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. Groth , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We show that the spins of all electrons, each confined in a quantum dot of an (In,Ga)As/GaAs dot ensemble, can be driven into a single mode of precession about a magnetic field. This regime is achieved by allowing only a single mode within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Greilich , S. Spatzek , I. A. Yugova , I. A. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , Al. L. Efros , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

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

We consider determination of spin-orbit (SO) coupling constants for the two-dimensional electron gas from measurements of electric properties in rotated in-plane magnetic field. %Due to the interplay Due to the SO coupling the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 K. Kolasiński , H. Sellier , B. Szafran

We show that by switching on a spin-orbit interaction in a cold-atom system, experiencing a Zeeman-like coupling to an external field, e.g., in a Bose-Einstein condensate, one can simulate a quantum measurement on a precessing spin.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 D. Sokolovski , E. Ya. Sherman

In inversion asymmetric semiconductors, spin-orbit interactions give rise to very effective relaxation mechanisms of the electron spin. Recent work, based on the dimensionally constrained D'yakonov Perel' mechanism, describes increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander W. Holleitner

We report experiments on the interference through spin states of electrons in a quantum dot (QD) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We have picked up a spin-pair state, for which the environmental conditions are ideally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi , Akira Sano , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye

We compare and contrast magneto-transport oscillations in the fully quantum (single-electron coherent) and classical limits for a simple but illustrative model. In particular, we study the induced magnetization and spin current in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Y. Veillette , Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

We predict that a single-level quantum dot without discernible splitting of its spin states develops a spin-precession resonance in charge transport when embedded into a spin valve. The resonance occurs in the generic situation of Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 M. Hell , B. Sothmann , M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs , J. König

We identify theoretically the geometric phases of the electrons' spin that can be detected in measurements of charge and spin transport through Aharonov-Bohm interferometers threaded by a magnetic flux $\Phi$ (in units of the flux quantum)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

The experimental realization of a coupled spin pair has been reported by Heiko Webber et.al and its theoretical description has been previously discussed including the condition that local magnetization of the junction is required for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Juan David Vasquez Jaramillo , Erik Sjoqvist , Jonas Fransson