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We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

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Motivated by recent experiments by Den Hartog et al., we present a random-matrix theory for the magnetoconductance fluctuations of a chaotic quantum dot which is coupled by point contacts to two superconductors and one or two normal metals.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study spin transport through a normal metal-spin superconductor junction. A spin-flip reflection is demonstrated at the interface, where a spin-up electron incident from the normal metal can be reflected as a spin-down electron and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-20 Peng Lv , Ai-Min Guo , Huaiyu Li , Chunxiao Liu , X. C. Xie , Qing-Feng Sun

We generalize a Landauer-type formula, using a real$\otimes$spin-space Green function technique, to treat spin-dependent transport in quantum-coherent conductors attached to two ferromagnetic contacts. The formalism is employed to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , J. K. Freericks

Recent studies by Copetti, C\'ordova and Komatsu have revealed that when non-invertible symmetries are spontaneously broken, the conventional crossing relation of the S-matrix is modified by the effects of the corresponding topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Soichiro Shimamori , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We discuss mesoscopic effects in quantum dots, nanoparticles and nuclei. In quantum dots, we focus on the statistical regime of dots whose single-electron dynamics are chaotic. Random matrix theory methods, developed to explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Alhassid

The inclusion of charging and spin-exchange interactions within the Universal Hamiltonian description of quantum dots is challenging as it leads to a non-Abelian action. Here we present an {\it exact} analytical solution of the probem, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. S. Burmistrov , Yuval Gefen , M. N. Kiselev

We derive a universal Hamiltonian for a quantum dot in the presence of spin-orbit interaction in the symmetry limits of a strong spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm-like term. We also derive a closed expression for the conductance through such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Alhassid , T. Rupp

Processes which flip the spin of an electron tunneling in a junction made up of magnetic electrodes are studied. It is found that: i) Magnetic impurities give a contribution which increases the resistance and lowers the magnetoresistance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Guinea

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

We study non-equilibrium magneto-transport through a single electron transistor or an impurity. We find that due to spin-flip transitions, generated by the spin-orbit interaction, the spectral density of the tunneling current fluctuations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mozyrsky , L. Fedichkin , S. A. Gurvitz , G. P. Berman

The effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions on qubit operations is investigated for a qubit represented by the spin of an electron localized in a self-assembled quantum dot. The localized electron wave function is evaluated within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seungwon Lee , Paul von Allmen , Fabiano Oyafuso , Gerhard Klimeck , K. Birgitta Whaley

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 study coherent quantum phase-slips which lift the ground state degeneracy in a Josephson junction ring, pierced by a magnetic flux of the magnitude equal to half of a flux quantum. The quantum phase-slip amplitude is sensitive to the…

We present a non-perturbative expression for the scattering matrix of $N$ particles interacting inside a quantum dot. Characterizing the dot by its resonances, we find a compact form for the scattering matrix in a real-time representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-10 A. V. Lebedev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

Modern understanding of symmetry in quantum field theory includes both invertible and non-invertible operations. Motivated by this, we extend Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity to incorporate non-invertible gates.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Saskia Demulder

Unlike charge and spin, the orbital degree of freedom of electrons in transition metal oxides is difficult to detect. We present the theoretical study of a new detection method in metallic orbitally active systems by analyzing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-23 Wei-Cheng Lee , Congjun Wu

We study the effects of spin-flip scatterings on the time-dependent transport properties through a magnetic quantum dot attached to normal and ferromagnetic leads. The transient spin-dynamics as well as the steady-state tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michele Cini

The collision frequency (also known as the inverse scattering lifetime) can be self-consistently calculated from the imaginary part of the zero-temperature elastic scattering cross-section in unconventional superconductors. We find these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-17 Pedro Contreras

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu