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We study the spin dynamics of a long nanomagnet driven by an electrical current. In the case of only DC current, the spin dynamics has a sophisticated bifurcation diagram of attractors. One type of attractors is a weak chaos. On the other…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yueheng Lan , Y. Charles Li

We show that a spatially-dependent magnetic field can induce a persistent spin current in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic ring, proportional to the solid angle subtended by the magnetic field on a unit sphere. The result is a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schmeltzer , A. Saxena , A. R. Bishop , D. L. Smith

First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. P. Amin , Junwen Li , M. D. Stiles , P. M. Haney

We have described electron spin dynamics in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. Exact solution is obtained for an arbitrary 2D spin-orbit Hamiltonian and arbitrary smoothness of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

The Aharonov-Bohm effect in a one-dimensional (1D) ring containing a gas of fractionally charged excitations is considered. It is shown that the low temperature behavior of the system is identical to that of free electrons with (integer)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 I. V. Krive , P. Sandström , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

The inductance of spintronic devices that transport charge neutral spin currents is discussed. It is known that in a media that contains charge neutral spins, a time-varying electric field induces a spin current. We show that since the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Wei Chen

We propose a mechanism of inductance operation originating from a dynamical Aharonov-Casher (AC) phase of an electron in ferromagnets. By taking into account spin-orbit coupling effects, we extend the theory of emergent inductance, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Yuta Yamane , Shunsuke Fukami , Jun'ichi Ieda

We present a simple and pedagogical derivation of the spin current as the linear response to an external electric field for both Rashba and Luttinger spin-orbital coupling Hamiltonians. Except for the adiabatic approximation, our derivation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangping Hu , Bogdan A. Bernevig , Congjun Wu

Coherent motion of electrons in a twisted quantum ring is considered to explore the effect of torsion inherent to the ring. Internal torsion of the ring composed of helical atomic configuration yields a non-trivial quantum phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hisao Taira , Hiroyuki Shima

We develop a theory for charge and spin current between two canted magnetic leads flowing through a quantum dot with an arbitrary local interaction. For a noncollinear magnetic configuration, we calculate equilibrium and nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We consider the motion of electrons through a mesoscopic ring in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, Zeeman coupling, and magnetic flux. The coupling between the spin and the orbital degrees of freedom results in the geometric and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ya-Sha Yi , Tie-Zheng Qian , Zhao-Bin Su

We consider the effect of an oscillating potential on the single-particle spectrum and the time-averaged persistent current of a one-dimensional phase-coherent mesoscopic ring with a magnetic flux. We show that in a ring with an even number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

We derive a non-perturbative solution to the Floquet-nonequilibrium Green function (Floquet-NEGF) describing open quantum systems periodically driven by an external field of arbitrary strength of frequency. By adopting the reduced-zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Son-Hsien Chen , Chien-Liang Chen , Farzad Mahfouzi , Ching-Ray Chang

We have studied the Aharonov-Bohm flux-induced magnetic response of a disordered non-Hermitian ring. The disorder is introduced through an on-site quasiperiodic potential described by the Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper (AAH) model, incorporating a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Suparna Sarkar , Soumya Satpathi , Swapan K. Pati

We predict the appearance of a persistent spin current in a two-dimensional electron gas formed at the interface of multiferroic oxides with a transverse helical magnetic order. No charge current is generated. This is the result of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

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

An expression for the conductance of interacting electrons in the diffusive regime as a function of the ensemble averaged persistent current and the compressibility of the system is presented. This expression involves only ground-state…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Richard Berkovits , Yshai Avishai

We provide a unified semiclassical theory for the conserved current of nonconserved quantities, and manifest it in two physical contexts: the spin current of Bloch electrons and the charge current of mean-field Bogoliubov quasiparticles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

We study the persistent currents induced by the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a closed ring which either embeds or is directly side coupled to a quantum dot at Kondo resonance. We predict that in both cases, the persistent current is very…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Simon , I. Affleck

We investigate the ground state current of an isolated hybrid normal/superconducting ring (NS ring), threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux. We calculate the excitation spectrum of the ring for any values of the lengths of the normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Cayssol , T. Kontos , G. Montambaux
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