Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Controlled spatial separation of spins and coherent dynamics in spin-orbit-coupled nanostructures

  • Shun-Tsung Lo,
  • Chin-Hung Chen,
  • Ju-Chun Fan,
  • L. W. Smith,
  • G. L. Creeth,
  • Che-Wei Chang,
  • M. Pepper,
  • J. P. Griffiths,
  • I. Farrer,
  • H. E. Beere,
  • G. A. C. Jones,
  • D. A. Ritchie,
  • Tse-Ming Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15997
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The development of spintronics relies on the exploitation of techniques to control different spin species separately. Here the authors make use of spin orbit coupling to spatially separate two spin populations and control the subsequent coherent evolution.