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Ultracold Atom Spin Field Effect Transistor

Published

Author(s)

Jay Vaishnav, Julius Ruseckas, Charles W. Clark, Gediminas Juzelunas

Abstract

We propose a method of constructing cold atom analogs of the spintronic device known as the Datta-Das transistor (DDT), which despite its seminal conceptual role in spintronics, has never been successfully realized with electrons. We propose two alternative schemes for an atomic DDT, both of which are based on the experimental setup for tripod stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. Both setups involve atomic beams incident on a series of laser fields mimicking the relativistic spin orbit coupling for electrons that is the operating mechanism of the DDT.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
101
Issue
265302

Keywords

spin field effect transistor, Datta-Das transistor, Dirac equation, ultracold atoms, optical lattices, quantum simulation, atomtronics, spintronics

Citation

Vaishnav, J. , Ruseckas, J. , Clark, C. and Juzelunas, G. (2009), Ultracold Atom Spin Field Effect Transistor, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=842535 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created September 14, 2009, Updated February 17, 2017