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Spin-½
About: Spin-½ is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 40423 publications have been published within this topic receiving 796639 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of spin-orbit coupling on the spin susceptibility of superconductors was discussed, with a particular emphasis on the recently discovered heavy Fermion superconductor CePt3Si.
Abstract: In materials without spatial inversion symmetry, the spin degeneracy of the conduction electrons can be lifted by an antisymmetric spin–orbit coupling. We discuss the influence of this spin–orbit coupling on the spin susceptibility of such superconductors, with a particular emphasis on the recently discovered heavy Fermion superconductor CePt3Si. We find that, for this compound (with tetragonal crystal symmetry) irrespective of the pairing symmetry, the stable superconducting phases would give a very weak change of the spin susceptibility for fields along the c-axis and an intermediate reduction for fields in the basal plane. We also comment on the consequences for the paramagnetic limiting in this material.
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TL;DR: In this article, a helical spin-orbit interaction was shown to suppress spin-polarization decay in semiconductor quantum wells by tuning the interaction, and optical pump-probe measurements provided direct evidence of the resulting helix.
Abstract: Spin–orbit interaction induces spin-polarization decay in semiconductor quantum wells. But this decay can be suppressed in favour of a helical spin mode by tuning the interaction. Optical pump–probe measurements provide direct evidence of the resulting helix—a signature that has so far only been inferred from transport measurements.
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TL;DR: This work demonstrates near-deterministic generation of an entangled twin-Fock condensate of ~11,000 atoms by driving a rubidium-87 Bose-Einsteincondensate undergoing spin mixing through two consecutive quantum phase transitions (QPTs).
Abstract: Many-body entanglement is often created through the system evolution, aided by nonlinear interactions between the constituting particles. These very dynamics, however, can also lead to fluctuations and degradation of the entanglement if the interactions cannot be controlled. Here, we demonstrate near-deterministic generation of an entangled twin-Fock condensate of ~11,000 atoms by driving a rubidium-87 Bose-Einstein condensate undergoing spin mixing through two consecutive quantum phase transitions (QPTs). We directly observe number squeezing of 10.7 ± 0.6 decibels and normalized collective spin length of 0.99 ± 0.01. Together, these observations allow us to infer an entanglement-enhanced phase sensitivity of ~6 decibels beyond the standard quantum limit and an entanglement breadth of ~910 atoms. Our work highlights the power of generating large-scale useful entanglement by taking advantage of the different entanglement landscapes separated by QPTs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the dynamics of quantum correlations in a class of exactly solvable Ising-type models and analyzed the time evolution of initial Bell states created in a fully polarized background and on the ground state.
Abstract: We study the dynamics of quantum correlations in a class of exactly solvable Ising-type models. We analyze in particular the time evolution of initial Bell states created in a fully polarized background and on the ground state. We find that the pairwise entanglement propagates with a velocity proportional to the reduced interaction for all the four Bell states. Singletlike states are favored during the propagation, in the sense that tripletlike states change their character during the propagation under certain circumstances. Characteristic for the anisotropic models is the instantaneous creation of pairwise entanglement from a fully polarized state; furthermore, the propagation of pairwise entanglement is suppressed in favor of a creation of different types of entanglement. The ``entanglement wave'' evolving from a Bell state on the ground state turns out to be very localized in space time. Our findings agree with a recently formulated conjecture on entanglement sharing; some results are interpreted in terms of this conjecture.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the spin polarization was achieved by a lateral current in a single nonmagnetic semiconductor heterojunction, which does not require an applied magnetic field and can be seen as the inverse of the circular photogalvanic effect.
Abstract: We have experimentally achieved spin polarization by a lateral current in a single nonmagnetic semiconductor heterojunction. The effect does not require an applied magnetic field. The current-induced spin orientation can be seen as the inverse of the circular photogalvanic effect (also often referred to as spin photocurrents): the nonequilibrium spin changes its sign as the current reverses.
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