@article{discovery1566908, publisher = {American Institute of Physics}, note = {Copyright {\copyright} 2017 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters}, title = {Direct observation of exchange-driven spin interactions in one-dimensional system}, month = {July}, volume = {111}, number = {4}, year = {2017}, author = {Yan, CY and Kumar, SK and Pepper, MP and Thomas, KT and See, PS and Farrer, IF and Ritchie, DR and Griffiths, JG and Jones, GJ}, abstract = {We present experimental results of transverse electron focusing measurements performed on an n-type GaAs based mesoscopic device consisting of one-dimensional (1D) quantum wires as injector and detector. We show that non-adiabatic injection of 1D electrons at a conductance of e 2 h e2h results in a single first focusing peak, which transforms into two asymmetric sub-peaks with a gradual increase in the injector conductance up to 2e 2 h 2e2h , each sub-peak representing the population of spin-state arising from the spatially separated spins in the injector. Further increasing the conductance flips the spin-states in the 1D channel, thus reversing the asymmetry in the sub-peaks. On applying a source-drain bias, the spin-gap, so obtained, can be resolved, thus providing evidence of exchange interaction induced spin polarization in the 1D systems.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4989374}, issn = {0003-6951} }