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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15997