Search Results - "Vignale, G."
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Microscopic theory of the inverse Edelstein effect
Published in Physical review letters (07-03-2014)“…We provide a precise microscopic definition of the recently observed inverse Edelstein effect in which a nonequilibrium spin accumulation in the plane of a…”
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Electric control of spin currents and spin-wave logic
Published in Physical review letters (17-06-2011)“…Spin waves in insulating magnets are ideal carriers for spin currents with low energy dissipation. An electric field can modify the dispersion of spin waves,…”
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Ten Years of Spin Hall Effect
Published in Journal of superconductivity and novel magnetism (2010)“…In this short review I survey the theory of the spin Hall effect in doped semiconductors and metals in the light of recent experiments on both kinds of…”
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Quantum theory of orbital magnetization and its generalization to interacting systems
Published in Physical review letters (09-11-2007)“…Based on standard perturbation theory, we present a full quantum derivation of the formula for the orbital magnetization in periodic systems. The derivation is…”
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Optics of semiconductors from meta-generalized-gradient-approximation-based time-dependent density-functional theory
Published in Physical review letters (15-11-2011)“…We calculate the optical spectra of silicon, germanium, and zinc blende semiconductors in the adiabatic time-dependent density-functional formalism, making use…”
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Density-functional theory for strongly interacting electrons
Published in Physical review letters (16-10-2009)“…We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density-functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems…”
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Two-Dimensional Mott-Hubbard Electrons in an Artificial Honeycomb Lattice
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03-06-2011)“…Artificial crystal lattices can be used to tune repulsive Coulomb interactions between electrons. We trapped electrons, confined as a two-dimensional gas in a…”
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Drude weight, plasmon dispersion, and ac conductivity in doped graphene sheets
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Spin current swapping and Hanle spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (06-07-2015)“…We analyze the effect known as "spin current swapping" (SCS) due to electron-impurity scattering in a uniform spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas. In…”
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Density-functional theory of thermoelectric phenomena
Published in Physical review letters (16-05-2014)“…We introduce a nonequilibrium density-functional theory of local temperature and associated local energy density that is suited for the study of thermoelectric…”
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Lorentz shear modulus of a two-dimensional electron gas at high magnetic field
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Interacting drift-diffusion theory for photoexcited electron-hole gratings in semiconductor quantum wells
Published in Physical review letters (01-03-2013)“…Phase-resolved transient grating spectroscopy in semiconductor quantum wells has been shown to be a powerful technique for measuring the electron-hole drag…”
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Collective spin Hall effect for electron-hole gratings
Published in Physical review letters (27-09-2013)“…We show that an electric field parallel to the wave fronts of an electron-hole grating in a GaAs quantum well generates, via the electronic spin Hall effect, a…”
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Spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas: A SU(2) formulation
Published in Annalen der Physik (01-04-2012)“…Spin‐orbit interaction is usefully classified as extrinsic or intrinsic, depending on its origin: the potential due to random impurities (extrinsic), or the…”
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Nonlocal Drag of Magnons in a Ferromagnetic Bilayer
Published in Physical review letters (10-06-2016)“…Quantized spin waves, or magnons, in a magnetic insulator are assumed to interact weakly with the surroundings, and to flow with little dissipation or drag,…”
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Spin-Orbit Twisted Spin Waves: Group Velocity Control
Published in Physical review letters (23-09-2016)“…We present a theoretical and experimental study of the interplay between spin-orbit coupling (SOC), Coulomb interaction, and motion of conduction electrons in…”
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Probing the topological exciton condensate via Coulomb drag
Published in Physical review letters (01-05-2012)“…The onset of exciton condensation in a topological insulator thin film was recently predicted. We calculate the critical temperature for this transition,…”
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Persistent spin oscillations in a spin-orbit-coupled superconductor
Published in Physical review letters (12-08-2011)“…Quasi-two-dimensional superconductors with tunable spin-orbit coupling are very interesting systems with properties that are also potentially useful for…”
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Spin drag in an ultracold fermi gas on the verge of ferromagnetic instability
Published in Physical review letters (01-06-2010)“…Recent experiments [Jo, Science 325, 1521 (2009)] have presented evidence of ferromagnetic correlations in a two-component ultracold Fermi gas with strong…”
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Many-body orbital paramagnetism in doped graphene sheets
Published in Physical review letters (04-06-2010)“…The orbital magnetic susceptibility of a gas of noninteracting massless Dirac fermions is zero when the Fermi energy is away from the Dirac point. Making use…”
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