In ferromagnets, magnons may condense into a single quantum state. Analogous to superconductors, this quantum state may support transport without dissipation. Recent works suggest that longitudinal spin transport through a thin-film ferromagnet is an example of spin superfluidity. Although intriguing, this tantalizing picture ignores long-range dipole interactions; here, we demonstrate that suc...

This work describes the first observations of the ionisation of neon in a metastable atomic state utilising a strong-field, few-cycle light pulse. We compare the observations to theoretical predictions based on the Ammosov-Delone-Krainov (ADK) theory and a solution to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). The TDSE provides better agreement with the experimental data than the ADK theor...

We consider a general formalism to compute inclusive polarised and unpolarised cross sections within pQCD and the factorisation scheme, taking into account parton intrinsic motion in distribution and fragmentation functions, as well as in the elementary dynamics. Surprisingly, the intrinsic partonic motion, with all the correct azimuthal angular dependences, produces a strong suppression of the...

The recent measurements of lepton nucleon scattering with polarised neutron and deuteron targets are analysed together with the previous polarised proton data in a mutually consistent way. The detailed x-dependence of the polarisation asymmetry in the valence region is shown to be in agreement with historical predictions based on quark models. The Bjorken sum rule is shown to be confirmed at th...

1 Introduction Spintronics is concerned with using the spin of the electron in novel electronic devices. The spin property adds a degree of freedom to the electron transport. Recently, it has become evident that a number of studies of spin-dependent transport included also heat transport and the term " spin caloritronics " was coined [1]. While the charge, spin and heat currents were considered...

Nonlocal spin transport in nanostructured devices with ferromagnetic injector (F1) and detector (F2) electrodes connected to a normal conductor (N) is studied. We reveal how the spin transport depends on interface resistance, electrode resistance, spin polarization and spin diffusion length, and obtain the conditions for efficient spin injection, spin accumulation and spin current in the device...

Spin-polarised local density functional cluster calculations are carried out on iso-(S=1/2) lies at the T d site. Ni ? s (S=3/2) is shown to be stable and remains on-site in agreement with experimental results. Donor-acceptor complexes of Ni, namely Ni + i-B ? s , Ni ? s-N + s and Ni + s-B ? s are stable trigonal defects which have a number of gap levels. Optical transitions are expected betwee...

New experimental results on the spin dependent structure functions g 1 and g 2 which are determined from deep-inelastic scattering experiments at CERN, SLAC and DESY are reported. These results are used to evaluate the Bjorken sum rule and the singlet axial charge a 0. Results are discussed in the framework of next-to-leading order perturbative QCD. The role of the polarised gluons in the inter...

One of the important goals of the COMPASS experiment is the determination of the gluonic contribution to the spin of the nucleon. By using the photon gluon fusion (PGF) process in polarised deep inelastic scattering direct access to the gluon polarisation can be obtained. The PGF is selected via the detection of open charm or high pT hadron pairs. In 2001 a large part of the experiment had been...