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Electric control of spin in insulators is desired for low-consumption and ultrafast spintronics, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unexplored. Here, we propose an intrinsic effect of dynamic spin generation driven by time-varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Lay Kee Ang , Shen Lai , Hua Jiang , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Spin current offers a promising route toward energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. Developing efficient methods for their generation remains a central challenge in spintronics. Here, we investigate spin current generation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Aoi Kajihara , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

Generating coherent magnon spin currents with the highest frequencies and shortest wavelengths is a key challenge in ultrafast spintronics and magnonics. A promising route is to excite counter-propagating magnon pairs. In antiferromagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Torstein Hegstad , Johan H. Mentink

We calculate the persistent current of 1D rings of spinless fermions with short-range interactions on a lattice with up to 20 sites, and in the presence of disorder, for various band fillings. We find that {\it both} disorder and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Bouzerar , D. Poilblanc , G. Montambaux

We study the energy spectrum of a vortex core in a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and proximity-coupled to a conventional superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator. We perform self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-08 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

An understanding of high temperature superconductivity clearly requires the nature of its normal state, however the normal state of the cuprates is poorly understood. One possible explanation is the bipolaronic model where mobile, heavily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. K. Lee

The recent experiment [R. Nakajima, et al., Nature 613, 479 (2023)] has reported a pair of oppositely polarized spins under an alternating electric current in a superconductor with a chiral structure. However, these behaviors cannot be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Mamoru Matsuo , Takehito Yokoyama

The spin-orbit coupling systems with a zero magnetic field is studied under the equilibrium situation, {\it i.e.}, without a voltage bias. A persistent spin current is predicted to exist under most circumstances, although the persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We considered the circulating current induced by the current magnification and the persistent current induced by Aharonov-Casher flux. The persistent currents have directional dependence on the direct current flow, but the circulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taeseung Choi , Chang-Mo Ryu , A. M. Jayannavar

It is shown theoretically that a persistent current can be continuously created in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of alkali atoms confined in a multiply connected region by making use of a spin-degree of freedom of the order parameter of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomoya Isoshima , Mikio Nakahara , Tetsuo Ohmi , Kazushige Machida

Controlled flow of spin and valley pseudospin is key to future electronics exploiting these internal degrees of freedom of carriers. Here we discover a universal possibility for generating spin and valley currents by electric bias or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Hongyi Yu , Yue Wu , Gui-Bin Liu , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

For the first time the persistent current in a 2D free-electron system has been calculated analytically. The tight binding model is considered on a square lattice with filling factor 1/2. The array has a shape of rectangle with boundary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 E. V. Tsiper , A. L. Efros

We investigate the stability of persistent currents in superfluid fermionic gases confined to a ring geometry. Our study, conducted at zero temperature using time-dependent density functional theory, cover interaction regimes from strong…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-16 Klejdja Xhani , Andrea Barresi , Marek Tylutki , Gabriel Wlazłowski , Piotr Magierski

We study the possibility of the existence of the electric current, formed by massive electrons and positrons, flowing along an external magnetic field. The charged fermions are supposed to have nonzero anomalous magnetic moments and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Maxim Dvornikov

A unified theory for the cuprates and the iron-based superconductors is derived on the basis of common features in their electronic structures including quasi-two-dimensionality, and the large-U nature of the electron orbitals close to E_F…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-09 J. Ashkenazi

We consider a thin-film normal metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Asle Sudbø

Influence of the spin-transfer torque on the vortex state magnetic nanodisk is studied numerically via Slonczewski-Berger mechanism. The existence of a critical current is determined for the case of same-directed electrical current, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

We explore the spin and charge properties of electrons in wurtzite semiconductor nanowires where radial and axial confinement leads to tubular or ring-shaped quantum structures. Accounting for spin-orbit interaction induced by the wurtzite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Michael Kammermeier , Adrian Seith , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

Persistent currents in disordered mesoscopic rings threaded by a magnetic flux are calculated using exact diagonalization methods in the one-dimensional (1D) case and self-consistent Hartree-Fock treatments for two dimensional (2D) systems.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Georges Bouzerar , Didier Poilblanc

The role of turbulence in current generation and self-excitation of magnetic fields has been studied in the geometry of a mechanically driven, spherical dynamo experiment, using a three dimensional numerical computation. A simple impeller…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Bayliss , C. B. Forest , M. D. Nornberg , E. J. Spence , P. W. Terry