The Rashba effect is one of the most striking manifestations of spin-orbit coupling in solids and provides a cornerstone for the burgeoning field of semiconductor spintronics. It is typically assumed to manifest as a momentum-dependent splitting of a single initially spin-degenerate band into two branches with opposite spin polarization. Combining polarization-dependent and resonant angle-resol...

Few-layer thick MoSe2 and WSe2 possess non-trivial spin textures with sizable spin splitting due to the inversion symmetry breaking embedded in the crystal structure and strong spin-orbit coupling. We report a spin-resolved photoemission study of MoSe2 and WSe2 thin film samples epitaxially grown on a bilayer graphene substrate. We only found spin polarization in the single- and trilayer sample...

We report the detailed experimental study on the production of electron-spin-polarized Sr+ ions through one-photon resonant two-photon ionization via laser-excited 5s5p 3P1 (MJ = +1) of Sr atoms produced by laser-ablation. We have experimentally confirmed that the use of laser-ablation for the production of Sr atoms prior to photoionization does not affect the electron-spin polarization. We hav...

Topological insulators exhibit metallic surface states populated by massless Dirac fermions with spin-momentum locking, where the carrier spin lies in-plane, locked at right angles to the carrier momentum. Here, we show that a charge current produces a net spin polarization via spin-momentum locking in Bi2Se3 films, and this polarization is directly manifested as a voltage on a ferromagnetic co...

The tensor polarization is known to be the specific property of the particles with spin larger than 1 2 . The deuteron is one of the most fundamental spin-1 particles, and the effects of its tensor polarization are intensively studied at low and intermediate energies. Such effects should also be manifested for deep inelastic scattering (DIS) off deuteron target, resulting in the new structure f...

Cross polarization from protons to quadrupolar (6)Li nuclei is combined with dynamic nuclear polarization of protons at 1.2 K and 6.7 T using TEMPOL as a polarizing agent followed by rapid dissolution. Compared to direct (6)Li DNP without cross-polarization, a higher nuclear spin polarization P((6)Li) can be obtained in a shorter time. A double resonance (1)H-(6)Li probe was designed that is eq...

We report an experimental demonstration of generating electron spin polarization with linearly polarized light in a (110) GaAs quantum well. A detailed frequency-domain pump-probe study shows that the dynamic nuclear spin polarization arising from the oriented electron spins results in a strong dependence of the electron spin splitting on the photon energy and intensity of the linearly polarize...

A method is presented to partially transfer nuclear spin polarization from one isotope S to another isotope I by the way of heteronuclear spin couplings, while minimizing the loss of spin order to other degrees of freedom. The desired I spin polarization to be detected is a design parameter, while the sequence of pulses at the two Larmor frequencies is optimized to store the greatest unused S s...

Spin-polarized density functional theory is used to investigate hydrogen-induced magnetism in single-walled carbon nanotubes SWNTs . Hydrogen trapped at a carbon vacancy can trigger delocalized electron spin polarization on semiconducting zigzag SWNTs. Hydrogen pinned by a carbon adatom on the surface of the SWNT can induce spin polarization localized at the carbon adatom, independent of the di...

Spintronics is an emerging field of research combining two traditional branches of physics: magnetism and electronics. It is based on the ability of ferromagnetic materials to conduct spin-polarized currents. The effectiveness of spintronics depends on the extent to which a current is spin-polarized [1], which in turn depends on the spin polarization of the ferromagnetic materials. All device d...