We calculate spin transport in two-dimensional waveguides in the presence of spatiallymodulated Zeeman-split energy bands.We show that in a regimewhere the spin evolution is predominantly adiabatic the spin backscattering rate can be tuned via diabatic Landau-Zener transitions between the spin-split bands [Betthausen et al., Science 337, 324 (2012)]. This mechanism is tolerant against spin-inde...

The processes of electrical spin injection, transport, and detection in nonmagnetic semiconductors are inherently nonequilibrium phenomena. A nonequilibrium spin polarization, which we will refer to in this chapter as spin accumulation, may be generated and probed by a variety of optical and transport techniques. We will focus on spin accumulation in heterostructures of ferromagnetic (FM) metal...

A spin battery concept is applied for the dynamical generation of pure spin current and spin transport in p-type silicon (p-Si). Ferromagnetic resonance and effective s-d coupling in Ni(80)Fe(20) results in spin accumulation at the Ni(80)Fe(20)/p-Si interface, inducing spin injection and the generation of spin current in the p-Si. The pure spin current is converted to a charge current by the in...

Spin transport between two semiconductors of widely different band gaps is time resolved by two-color pump-probe optical spectroscopy. Electron spin coherence is created in a GaAs substrate and subsequently appears in an adjacent ZnSe epilayer at temperatures ranging from 5 to 300 K. The data show that spin information can be protected by transport to regions of low spin decoherence, and region...

We employ the Keldysh formalism in the quasiclassical approximation to study transport in a diffusive superconductor. The resulting 434 transport equations describe the flow of charge and energy as well as the corresponding flow of spin and spin energy. Spin-flip scattering due to magnetic impurities is included. We find that the spin-flip length is renormalized in the superconducting case and ...

A minimal model is exactly solved for electron spin transport on a helix. Electron transport is assumed to be supported by well oriented p(z) type orbitals on base molecules forming a staircase of definite chirality. In a tight binding interpretation, the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) opens up an effective π(z) - π(z) coupling via interbase p(x,y) - p(z) hopping, introducing spin coupled transport....

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We present a generalized Landauer-Büttiker transport theory for multiterminal spin transport in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Using this theory we point out that there exists equilibrium spin currents and nonequilibrium pure spin currents, without any magnetic element in the system. Quantitative results are presented for a Y-shaped conductor. It is shown that pure spin currents cause ...