TY - JOUR ID - discovery1566908 N2 - 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. SN - 0003-6951 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4989374 PB - American Institute of Physics JF - Applied Physics Letters A1 - Yan, CY A1 - Kumar, SK A1 - Pepper, MP A1 - Thomas, KT A1 - See, PS A1 - Farrer, IF A1 - Ritchie, DR A1 - Griffiths, JG A1 - Jones, GJ TI - Direct observation of exchange-driven spin interactions in one-dimensional system Y1 - 2017/07/24/ AV - restricted VL - 111 N1 - 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/). IS - 4 ER -