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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 86, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165407
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 689]
- Elitenetzwerk Bayern
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We calculate spin transport in two-dimensional wave guides in the presence of spatially modulated Zeeman-split energy bands. We show that in a regime where the spin evolution is predominantly adiabatic the spin backscattering rate can be tuned via diabatic Landau-Zener transitions between the spin-split bands [Betthausen et al., Science 337, 324 (2012)]. This mechanism is tolerant against spin-independent scattering processes. Completely spinpolarized systems show full spin backscattering, and thus current switching. In partially spin-polarized systems a spatial sequence of Landau-Zener transition points enhances the resistance modulation via reoccupation of backscattered spin-polarized transport modes. We discuss a possible application as a spin transistor.
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