Two-dimensional Rashba metals: unconventional low-temperature transport properties
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2017-08-31 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Rashba spin-orbit coupling emerges in materials lacking of structural inversion symmetry, such as heterostructures, quantum wells, surface alloys and polar materials, just to mention few examples. It yields a coupling between the spin and momentum of electrons formally identical to that arising from the weakly-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation. The purpose of the present work is to give an overview of the unconventional dc transport properties of two-dimensional metals with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling, discussing in addition the effects of thermal broadening.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.09331,
title = {Two-dimensional Rashba metals: unconventional low-temperature transport properties},
author = {Valentina Brosco and Claudio Grimaldi and Emmanuele Cappelluti and Lara Benfatto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09331},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
25 pages, 11 figures