We report observation of intrinsic inverse spin Hall effect in undoped GaAs multiple quantum wells with a sample temperature of 10 K. A transient ballistic pure spin current is injected by a pair of laser pulses through quantum interference. By time resolving the dynamics of the pure spin current, the momentum relaxation time is deduced, which sets the lower limit of the scattering time between...

We present ab initio calculations of the spin-dependent electronic transport in Fe/GaAs/Fe and Fe/ZnSe/Fe ~001! junctions simulating the situation of a spin-injection experiment. We follow a ballistic Landauer-Büttiker approach for the calculation of the spin-dependent dc conductance in the linear-response regime, in the limit of zero temperature. We show that the bulk band structure of the lea...

This work is concerned with the semiclassical approximation of the SchrödingerPoisson equation modeling ballistic transport in a 1D periodic potential by means of WKB techniques. It is derived by considering the mean-field limit of a N -body quantum problem, then K-multivalued solutions are adapted to the treatment of this weakly nonlinear system obtained after homogenization without taking int...

Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs) can be thought of as graphene a single graphene sheet wrapped up to form a one-atom-thick cylinders. CNTs were discovered by Iijima [1] in 1991, since then the excellent charge transport properties of CNTs have been of great inter‐ est, for its great potential applications in nanoelectronics, such as high-speed field-effect transistors (FETs) [2, 3], singl...

The persistent current in a mesoscopic ring has a Gaussian distribution with small non-Gaussian corrections. Here we report a semiclassical calculation of the leading non-Gaussian correction, which is described by the three-point correlation function. The semiclassical approach is applicable to systems in which the electron dynamics is ballistic and chaotic, and includes the dependence on the E...

The Wigner equation provides an interesting mathematical limit, which recovers the constant field, ballistic Boltzmann equation. The peculiarities of a recently proposed Monte Carlo approach for solving the transient Wigner problem, based on generation and annihilation of particles are summarized. The annihilation process can be implemented at consecutive time steps to improve the Monte Carlo r...

We consider a ballistic random walk in an i.i.d. random environment that does not allow retreating in a certain fixed direction. We prove an invariance principle (functional central limit theorem) under almost every fixed environment. The assumptions are nonnestling, at least two spatial dimensions, and a 2 + ε moment for the step of the walk uniformly in the environment. The main point behind ...