The spin - dependent Seebeck effect refers to the analogous phenomenon involving
the spin of electrons in a ferromagnet.)
The spin of the electrons in isolated phosphorus atoms could serve as qubits, the quantum equivalent of the bits in today's computers.
Ordinarily,
the spins of the electrons in an electric current are randomly oriented.
Not exact matches
In a neck - and - neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chi
In a neck - and - neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information
of an
electron spin can be transported to a photon,
in a silicon quantum chi
in a silicon quantum chip.
Each hydrogen atom, made up
of just a single proton and
electron, can be found
in two slightly different states: a higher energy state
in which the
electron and proton essentially
spin in the same direction, and a lower energy state
in which they
spin in opposite directions.
In a technique that could help silicon quantum computers scale up, a particle
of light (pink waves) was made to interact with the
spin of a single
electron (pink circle).
In an ordinary superconductor, electrons, which carry a spin of 1/2, pair up and flow uninhibited with the help of vibrations in the atomic structur
In an ordinary superconductor,
electrons, which carry a
spin of 1/2, pair up and flow uninhibited with the help
of vibrations
in the atomic structur
in the atomic structure.
The researchers concluded that the best explanation for the superconductivity was
electrons disguised as particles with a higher
spin — a possibility that hadn't even been considered before
in the framework
of conventional superconductivity.
Then for the bizarre part: Atom C, because it was previously entangled with B, became imprinted with atom A's information —
in this case, a pattern
in the
spin of its
electrons.
Each pattern had a different energy associated with it — and the ratio
of these energy levels showed that the
electron spins were ordering themselves according to mathematical relationships
in E8 symmetry (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180085).
Awschalom's team recently discovered an effect predicted 35 years ago, called the
spin Hall effect: By introducing certain chemical defects into a semiconductor,
electrons with opposite
spins can be induced to move
in opposite directions and line up on the sides
of a chip.
Chromium triiodide is also anisotropic, meaning that its
electrons have a preferred
spin direction —
in this case, perpendicular to the plane
of the crystal.
In a further step, last year, an Australian team measured the spin of a lone electron in silico
In a further step, last year, an Australian team measured the
spin of a lone
electron in silico
in silicon.
(Photons, like
electrons, can exist
in only one
of two states; polarization,
in this case, functions just like
spin as far as Bell - type correlations are concerned.)
For half a century, the Mermin - Wagner theorem has addressed this question by stating that if 2 - D materials lack magnetic anisotropy, a directional alignment
of electron spins in the material, there may be no magnetic order.
One sent these
electrons into a fuzzy quantum state,
in which the
spin of each
electron had a 50 - 50 chance
of being either up or down.
Neutrons are ideal tools for identifying and characterizing magnetism
in almost any material, because they, like
electrons, exhibit a flow
of magnetism called «
spin.»
But when the magnetic orientations
of the wires point
in opposite directions,
electrons moving through the cluster from one wire to the other must quickly flip their
spin.
«But when the laser hits the
electron in a quantum system, it creates many possible
spin states, and that greater range
of possibilities forms the basis for more complex computing.»
In ordinary magnets, both individual electron spins and the motion of electrons in their atomic orbitals generate magnetic field
In ordinary magnets, both individual
electron spins and the motion
of electrons in their atomic orbitals generate magnetic field
in their atomic orbitals generate magnetic fields.
In the sea
of graphene (over an iridium crystal),
electrons»
spin - orbit interaction is much lower than that created by intercalating a Pb island.
Researchers
in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction
of the
electrons»
spin with their orbital movement.
The interaction couples the
spin of the
electron to the angular momentum
of the electromagnetic field and it is responsible for a variety
of phenomena
in a large class
of technologically important materials.
Surendra Singh, professor
of physics, and Bellaiche were part
of the U
of A team that proposed
in 2013 that the angular momentum
of an electromagnetic field can directly couple to the
spin of an
electron to produce a physical energy.
In this configuration the lead forms «islands» below the graphene and the electrons of this two - dimensional material behave as if in the presence of a colossal 80 - tesla magnetic field, which facilitates the selective control of the flow of spin
In this configuration the lead forms «islands» below the graphene and the
electrons of this two - dimensional material behave as if
in the presence of a colossal 80 - tesla magnetic field, which facilitates the selective control of the flow of spin
in the presence
of a colossal 80 - tesla magnetic field, which facilitates the selective control
of the flow
of spins.
They propose that the
electron spins disturbed
in the layer where the current was introduced engage
in a sort
of «cross talk» with
spins in the other layer, exerting a force that drags the
spins along for the ride.
The phenomenon
of broken symmetry can only be explained if the
electrons in this material form special Cooper pairs, namely
spin - triplet pairs, instead
of the usual
spin - singlet pairs.
Practical applications
of spintronic devices
in information processing require accurate knowledge
of the strength
of the
electron spin interaction with phonons.
The research team, which included Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute
of Nuclear Physics, studied the interactions between superconductivity and magnetization
in order to understand how to control
electron spins (
electron magnetic moments) and to create the new generation
of electronics.
In terms
of applications, it's quite possible that the team's work with double - dot SETs will find future use within quantum electronics to manipulate a single
electron and its
spin.
You and Bob also share a pair
of electrons — you have one, Bob has the other — and they're
in an entangled state such that if yours is
spinning up, his is
spinning down, and conversely.
In spintronics, data are stored by the
spins of either
electrons or, preferably, atomic nuclei.
Magnets are a good example
of this: the
electrons in magnets align themselves
in a preferred direction
of spin inside the material, and it is this that produces the magnetic field.
Spin transfer torque is the transfer of the spin angular momentum from conduction electrons to the magnetization of a ferromagnet and enables the manipulation of nanomagnets with spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Illin
Spin transfer torque is the transfer
of the
spin angular momentum from conduction electrons to the magnetization of a ferromagnet and enables the manipulation of nanomagnets with spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Illin
spin angular momentum from conduction
electrons to the magnetization
of a ferromagnet and enables the manipulation
of nanomagnets with
spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Illin
spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD
in materials science and engineering at Illinois.
«
In our study, we make use
of the fact that a heat current passing through a magnetic material creates a separation
of electron spins.
Spintronics refers to technologies used
in solid - state devices that take advantage
of the inherent
spin in electrons and their related magnetic momentum.
El - Sayed is known throughout physical chemistry for «El - Sayed's Rule,» which handles complexities
of electron spin orbits, and which has found a lasting place
in photochemistry textbooks.
The
electron spin resonance was shown to differ
in the presence
of helium and oxygen gases, meaning the technique could be used
in a new type
of sensor to detect and measure gases.
Now, a pair
of scientists from the U.S. Department
of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Ludwig Maximilian University
in Munich have proposed the first solution to such subatomic stoppage: a novel way to create a more robust
electron wave by binding together the
electron's direction
of movement and its
spin.
Researchers have demonstrated how to control the «
electron spin»
of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers
in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications
in quantum information processing, sensors and studies into the fundamental physics
of quantum mechanics.
In the strange world of quantum physics, an electron can also be represented as a wavefunction that encodes information about the particle, such as the probability of finding it in a particular spin stat
In the strange world
of quantum physics, an
electron can also be represented as a wavefunction that encodes information about the particle, such as the probability
of finding it
in a particular spin stat
in a particular
spin state.
This enables the heating or cooling
of the platinum - YIG interface, depending on the relative orientation
of the
electron spins in the platinum and the magnetisation
in the YIG.
The material
of their choice, the compound Ag2BiO3, is exceptional for two reasons; on the one hand it is composed
of the heavy element bismuth, which allows the
spin of the
electron to interact with its own motion (
spin - orbit coupling)-- a feature that has no analogy
in classical physics.
The
spin of an
electron — like a perpetually
spinning quantum top — can only be described as either up or down, and it is impervious to simple imperfections
in the material.
Put another way, each
electron has an equal chance
of being measured while
spinning in one direction or the other.
Today, this behaviour is very well understood at the microscopic level: magnetism goes back to the angular momentum — the
spin —
of the
electrons in the outer shell
of the atoms that build up a solid state crystal.
The information is stored
in the
spin of the
electrons which can turn up or down.
Two years ago, an international team
of researchers showed that by manipulating
electron spin at a quantum magnetic tunneling junction — a nanoscale sandwich made
of two metal electrodes with an insulator
in the middle — they could induce a large increase
in the junction's capacitance.
Before this happens, however, Earth's magnetic field can alter the relative alignment
of the
electrons»
spins, which
in turn alters the chemical properties
of the molecules involved.
They are said to be «entangled» because,
in the bizarre world
of quantum mechanics, neither
electron has a definite
spin until one
of them is measured.