Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets
Ghazaryan A, Lemeshko M, Volosniev A. 2020. Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets. Communications Physics. 3, 178.
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Nature creates electrons with two values of the spin projection quantum number. In certain applications, it is important to filter electrons with one spin projection from the rest. Such filtering is not trivial, since spin-dependent interactions are often weak, and cannot lead to any substantial effect. Here we propose an efficient spin filter based upon scattering from a two-dimensional crystal, which is made of aligned point magnets. The polarization of the outgoing electron flux is controlled by the crystal, and reaches maximum at specific values of the parameters. In our scheme, polarization increase is accompanied by higher reflectivity of the crystal. High transmission is feasible in scattering from a quantum cavity made of two crystals. Our findings can be used for studies of low-energy spin-dependent scattering from two-dimensional ordered structures made of magnetic atoms or aligned chiral molecules.
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2020-10-09
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Communications Physics
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Springer Nature
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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754411 (A.G.V. and A.G.). M.L. acknowledges support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), under project No. P29902-N27, and by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting
Grant No. 801770 (ANGULON).
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3
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178
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Ghazaryan A, Lemeshko M, Volosniev A. Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets. Communications Physics. 2020;3. doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00445-8
Ghazaryan, A., Lemeshko, M., & Volosniev, A. (2020). Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets. Communications Physics. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00445-8
Ghazaryan, Areg, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Artem Volosniev. “Filtering Spins by Scattering from a Lattice of Point Magnets.” Communications Physics. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00445-8.
A. Ghazaryan, M. Lemeshko, and A. Volosniev, “Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets,” Communications Physics, vol. 3. Springer Nature, 2020.
Ghazaryan A, Lemeshko M, Volosniev A. 2020. Filtering spins by scattering from a lattice of point magnets. Communications Physics. 3, 178.
Ghazaryan, Areg, et al. “Filtering Spins by Scattering from a Lattice of Point Magnets.” Communications Physics, vol. 3, 178, Springer Nature, 2020, doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00445-8.
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