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We demonstrate that non-equilibrium electrons in thin nonmagnetic semiconductor layers or quantum dots can be fully spin polarized by means of simultaneous electrical spin injection and extraction. The complete spin polarization is achieved…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Osipov , A. G. Petukhov , V. N. Smelyanskiy

We provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

We show that the parallel magnetic field-induced increase in the critical electron density for the Anderson transition in a strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system is caused by the effects of exchange and correlations. If the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

Spin and charge-current dynamics after ultrafast spin-polarized excitation in a normal metal are studied theoretically using a wave-diffusion theory. It is shown analytically how this macroscopic approach correctly describes the ballistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-22 Steffen Kaltenborn , Yao-Hui Zhu , Hans Christian Schneider

We first derive the energy dispersion of bilayer MoS$_{2}$ in the presence of a perpendicular electric field $E_z$. We show that the band gap and layer splitting can be controlled by the field $E_z$. Away from the $k$ point, the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 M. Zubair , M. Tahir , P. Vasilopoulos , K. Sabeeh

We present a theory of the imprinting of the electron spin coherence and population in an n-doped semiconductor which forms a junction with a ferromagnet. The reflection of non-equilibrium semiconductor electrons at the interface provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Ciuti , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham

We develop a detailed theory for spin transport in a one-dimensional quantum wire described by Luttinger liquid theory. A hydrodynamic description for the quantum wire is supplemented by boundary conditions taking into account the exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Leon Balents , Reinhold Egger

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

A one dimensional theory of lateral spin-polarized transport is derived from the two dimensional flow in the vertical cross section of a stack of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic layers. This takes into account the influence of the lead on…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 H. Dery , L. Cywinski , L. J. Sham

A theory for the relation between the spin polarization and luminescence in silicon is presented. The theory provides intuitive relations for phonon-assisted optical transitions between the conduction and valence band edges. It is shown…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-17 Pengke Li , Hanan Dery

Based on spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations, which are derived from kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix in a rigorous manner, the electric-field-induced nonequilibrium spin polarization is treated for a two-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

A microscopic picture of electron-electron pair scattering in single mode quantum wires is introduced which includes electron spin. A new source of `excess' noise for hot carriers is presented. We show that zero magnetic field `spin'…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

The interpretation of some recent measurements of spin-dependent voltage for which the electric conduction does not play a role rises some new fundamental questions about the effects of spin-dependent heat currents. A two spin-channel model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 J. -E. Wegrowe , H. -J. Drouhin , D. Lacour

The transport properties of exciton-polaritons are studied with allowance for their polarization. Both classical multiple scattering effects and quantum effects such as weak localization are taken into account in the framework of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub

We calculate the dynamical fluctuation spectrum of electronic spins in a semiconductor under a steady-state illumination by light containing polarization squeezing correlations. Taking into account quasi-particle lifetime and spin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eran Ginossar , Yehoshua Levinson , Shimon Levit

It is a matter of common knowledge that the field of gravitation influences the propagation of light, but the question to which extent electromagnetic fields do something similar is not completely answered. The birefringence caused by…

General Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 Claus W. Turtur

We show that spin-polarized electron transmission across semiconductor/superconductor (Sm/S) hybrid structures depends sensitively on the degree of spin polarization as well as the strengths of potential and spin-flip scattering at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , S. Das Sarma

In this work, we study a possibility to measure the transverse and longitudinal relaxation times of a collection of polarized nuclear spins located in the region of a quantum wire via its conductance. The interplay of an external in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 James A. Nesteroff , Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

Spin-polarized transport of photo-electrons in bulk, p-type GaAs is investigated in the Pauli blockade regime. In contrast to usual spin diffusion processes in which the spin polarization decreases with distance traveled due to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 F. Cadiz , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe

We develop a theoretical description of transport through quantum dots connected to reservoirs via spin-polarized ballistic contacts. Rate equations account for spin accumulation inside the dot, electron-electron interactions, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene G. Mishchenko , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak