We assess the suitability of the recently proposed Josephson LED for quantum manipulation purposes. We show that the device can both be used for on-demand production of entangled photon pairs and operated as a two-qubit gate. Also, one can entangle particle spin with photon polarization and/or measure the spin by measuring the polarization.

A theoretical approach to quantitatively estimate the spin polarization enhancement via spin polarization-induced nuclear Overhauser effect (SPINOE) in solid state is presented. We show that theoretical estimates from the model are in good agreement with published experimental results. This method provides a straightforward way to predict the enhanced factor of nuclear magnetic resonance signal...

Recently, strong spin-orbit coupling with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus strength has been realized in neutral atomic Bose-Einstein condensates via a pair of Raman lasers. In this report, we investigate spin and field squeezing of the ground state in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate. By mapping the spin-orbit coupled BEC to the well-known quantum Dicke model, the Dicke type quantum pha...

The semileptonic decay of spin-l/2 baryons is examined in the spectator quarkmodel, with special attention given to Ab + A,ev and nb + &ev. The polarization of the virtual-W and of the daughter baryon is also considered, along with the joint angular distribution between the charged lepton and the daughter baryon polarization vector. The Ab decays with about equal mixtures of transverseto longit...

Radiative spin-polarization has been used extensively at LEP to accurately measure the beam energy around the Z resonance. As the LEP physics has moved on to the W boson the calibration based on polarization must be extended towards higher beam energies. This is difficult as the depolarizing effects of spin resonances grow rapidly with beam energy. At LEP it has been possible for the first time...

The traditional method of spin-flipping a stored polarized beam is based on slowly crossing an rf induced depolarizing resonance. This paper discusses a novel approach where the polarization reversal is achieved by trapping the beam polarization into a stable spin-flipping motion on top of the rf induced resonance at a half-revolution frequency.

Although the interest on half-metallic Heusler alloys, susceptible to be used in spintronic applications, has considerably grown, their interfaces with semiconductors show very low spin-polarization. I identify mechanisms which can keep the high spin-polarization at the interface (more than 80% of the electrons at the Fermi level are of majority spin) although the half-metallicity is lost. The ...

We demonstrate the use of cylindrical vector beams - beams with spatially varying polarization - for detecting and preparing the spin of a warm rubidium vapor in a spatially dependent manner. We show that a modified probe vector beam can serve as an atomic spin analyzer for an optically pumped medium, which spatially modulates absorption of the beam. We also demonstrate space-variant atomic spi...

A new type of spin chemical experiment is suggested which utilizes adiabatic reversion of a low magnetic Bo field for an efficient transfer of net electron spin polarization, as arising from some CIDEP mechanism, to the nuclear polarization of radicals. After trapping the radicals in diamagnetic products and transferring the sample to a NMR probe, the adiabatic polarization transfer effect can ...

Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization and magnetization are based on the exchange interaction, the spin properties in topological insulators are based on the coupling of spin- and orbit interaction connected to its momentum. Specific ways to control the spin-...