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Dynamic Rashba-Dresselhaus Effect

Materials Science 2021-12-07 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The Rashba-Dresselhaus effect is the splitting of doubly degenerate band extrema in semiconductors, accompanied by the emergence of counter-rotating spin textures and spin-momentum locking. Here we investigate how this effect is modified by lattice vibrations. We show that, in centrosymmetric non-magnetic crystals, for which a bulk Rashba-Dresselhaus effect is symmetry-forbidden, electron-phonon interactions can induce a phonon-assisted, dynamic Rashba-Dresselhaus spin splitting in the presence of an out-of-equilibrium phonon population. In particular, we show how Rashba, Dresselhaus, or Weyl spin textures can selectively be established by driving coherent infrared-active phonons, and we perform ab initio calculations to quantify this effect for halide perovskites.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10477,
  title  = {Dynamic Rashba-Dresselhaus Effect},
  author = {Martin Schlipf and Feliciano Giustino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10477},
  year   = {2021}
}
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