Danilo Pescia


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Pescia

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Danilo

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  • Local-magnetic-field generation with a scanning tunneling microscope
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Michlmayr, T.; Saratz, N.; Vaterlaus, A.; et al. (2006)
    Journal of Applied Physics
  • Spin-polarised electrons in a one-magnet-only Mott spin junction
    Item type: Journal Article
    De Pietro, Lorenzo G.; Bertolini, Gabriele; Peter, Q.; et al. (2017)
    Scientific Reports
    The current flowing through a Mott spin junction depends on the relative spin orientation of the two ferromagnetic layers comprising the “source” and “drain” sides of the junction. The resulting current asymmetry is detected as giant or tunnelling magnetoresistance depending on whether the two ferromagnets are separated by a metal or an insulator. Based on the fundamental principles of reciprocity for spin-dependent electron scattering, one can envisage a one-magnet-only spin junction in which the source is non-magnetic, and the spin information is encoded by the spin polarisation of the electrons that have crossed or are backscattered from the drain magnetic layer. The practical significance of using an unpolarised source is that the state of the magnetic layer can be modified without affecting the process of probing it. Whether this reciprocity is realised in the actual junctions is not yet known. Here, we demonstrate a nano-sized, one-magnet-only Mott spin junction by measuring the finite spin polarisation of the backscattered electrons. Based on this finding, we conclude that since the junction acts as a spin filter, the magnetic layer must experience a spin transfer that could become detectable in view of the high current densities achievable in this technology.
  • Irreversibility, reversibility, and thermal equilibrium in domain patterns of Fe films with perpendicular magnetization
    Item type: Journal Article
    Saratz, Niculin Andri; Ramsperger, Urs; Vindigni, Alessandro; et al. (2010)
    Physical Review B
  • Domain walls in ultrathin magnetic nanowires at finite temperatures
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Michaels, Thomas; Vindigni, Alessandro; Pescia, Danilo (2012)
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society
  • Advanced photoelectric effect experiment beamline at Elettra
    Item type: Journal Article
    Panaccione, G.; Vobornik, I.; Fujii, J.; et al. (2009)
    Review of Scientific Instruments
  • Multi-Parameter Analysis of Genesis and Evolution of Secondary Electrons produced in the Low Energy Regime
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Bellissimo, Alessandra; Pierantozzi, G. M.; Ruocco, A.; et al. (2019)
    AVS 66th International Symposium & Exhibition: Program and Book of Abstracts
  • Magnetic field generation with local current injection
    Item type: Journal Article
    Michlmayr, T.; Saratz, N.; Ramsperger, U.; et al. (2008)
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
  • Lectures on Symmetry-Assisted Computation
    Item type: Monograph
    Pescia, Danilo (2024)
    Scientific problems have an internal "beauty", called, referred to, precisely speaking, as their "symmetry". The symmetry arises, often, from the fact that the scientific problem refers to an object (a molecule, a crystal) and the object itself has some "symmetry" elements, but in more abstract situations, such as those arising in particle physics and quantum technologies, symmetry is often the only known (and relevant!) fact about the problem. The scope of these Lecture Notes is to educate how to recognize the symmetry of a scientific problem and how to use symmetry to understand, manipulate and, finally, solve it. The principle guiding these Lecture Notes is that "learning by doing" is the only way that young students can later become productive in science, business and industry. The lecture Notes have, essentially, two components. The first one reports the content of a set of lectures, held at ETH Zurich at the master and PhD level, frequented mainly by students from the department of Physics, Chemistry and Material Science. The lectures were accompanied by a set of student projects on various scientific subjects related to symmetry. These projects ended with a manuscript, worked out by the students themselves and edited into the second component of these Lecture Notes.
  • Static and dynamic properties of single-chain magnets with broad domain walls
    Item type: Journal Article
    Vindigni, Alessandro; Michaels, Thomas; Sangiorgio, Boris; et al. (2012)
    Bulletin SPG/SSP
  • Research Roundtable: to what extent can computational methods deepen our understanding of complicated natural systems?
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Pescia, Danilo (2012)
    International Innovation - Swiss Focus
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