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Time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy as a function of pump-probe distance, voltage and magnetic field is used to measure the momentum-dependent spin splitting energies in GaAs and InGaAs epilayers. The strain of the samples can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , H. Knotz , J. Stephens , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We observe spin squeezing in three-component Bose gases where all three hyperfine states are coupled by synthetic spin-orbit coupling. This phenomenon is a direct consequence of spin-orbit coupling, as can be seen clearly from an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 X. Y. Huang , F. X. Sun , W. Zhang , Q. Y. He , C. P. Sun

We have for the first time experimentally investigated the weak localisation magnetoresistance in a AlGaAs/GaAs p-type quantum well. The peculiarity of such systems is that spin-orbit interaction is strong. On the theoretical side it is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Pedersen , C. B. Sorensen , A. Kristensen , P. E. Lindelof , L. E. Golub , N. S. Averkiev

We present quantitative measurements and calculations of the spin-orbit induced zero-magnetic-field spin-splitting in two-dimensional (2D) hole systems in modulation-doped GaAs (311)A quantum wells. The results show that the splitting is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. J. Papadakis , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

We have studied the relevance of spin-orbit coupling to the dispersion 00009 relation of the Larmor resonance observed in inelastic light scattering and electron-spin resonance experiments on GaAs quantum wells. We show that the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Francesc Malet , Enrico Lipparini , Manuel Barranco , Martí Pi

Spin-orbit coupled electronic structure of two representative non-polar half-Heusler alloys, namely 18 electron compound CoZrBi and 8 electron compound SiLiIn have been studied in details. An excursion through the Brillouin zone of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Kunal Dutta , Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Indra Dasgupta

In a two-dimensional quantum dot in a GaAs heterostructure, the spin-orbit scattering rate is substantially reduced below the rate in a bulk two-dimensional electron gas [B.I. Halperin et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2106 (2001)]. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. W. Brouwer , J. N. H. J. Cremers , B. I. Halperin

Increasing the spin-orbit coupling in InGaAs quantum wells is desirable for applications involving spintronics and topological quantum computing. Digital alloying is an approach towards growing ternary quantum wells that enables asymmetric…

We report direct measurements of the spin-orbit interaction induced spin-splitting in a modulation-doped GaAs two-dimensional hole system as a function of anisotropic, in-plane strain. The change in spin-subband densities reveals a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Habib , J. Shabani , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

In this paper, I'm going to talk about the theoretical and experimental progress in studying spin-orbit coupled spin-1 bosons. Realization of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases opens a new avenue in cold atom physics. In particular, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-02 Lin Xin

We study the topological phase transitions induced in spin-orbit coupled materials with buckling like silicene, germanene, stanene, etc, by circularly polarised light, beyond the high frequency regime, and unearth many new topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Ruchi Saxena , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Kundu

By means the envelope function approximation, 8-band Kane model and a finite-difference scheme with the coordinate space discretization, we numerically performed calculations of the spin-orbit coupling parameters for 2D electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Vladimir Degtyarev , Sofia Khazanova , Anton Konakov , Yury Danilov

We show that for lattice-mismatched zinc-blende-type (110)-grown quantum wells a significant contribution to the zero-magnetic-field spin splitting of electron subbands comes from strain-induced spin-orbit coupling. Combining envelope…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 M. O. Nestoklon , S. A. Tarasenko , R. Benchamekh , P. Voisin

We investigate the proximity spin-orbit and exchange couplings in ABA and ABC trilayer graphene encapsulated within monolayers of semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides and the ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We evaluate the spin-orbit and spin-spin interaction between two fermions in strongly coupled gauge theories in their Coulomb phase. We use the quasi-instantaneous character of Coulomb's law at strong coupling to resum a class of ladder…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Edward V. Shuryak , Ismail Zahed

A novel spin-spin coupling mechanism that occurs during the transport of spin-polarized minority electrons in semiconductors is described. Unlike the Coulomb spin drag, this coupling arises from the ambipolar electric field which is created…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Cadiz , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe , S. Arscott

First-principles calculations of the spin-orbit coupling in graphene with hydrogen adatoms in dense and dilute limits are presented. The chemisorbed hydrogen induces a giant local enhancement of spin-orbit coupling due to $sp^3$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

We report on measurements of quantized conductance in gate-defined quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene that allow the observation of subband splittings due to spin-orbit coupling. The size of this splitting can be tuned from 40 to 80…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 L. Banszerus , B. Frohn , T. Fabian , S. Somanchi , A. Epping , M. Müller , D. Neumaier , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Libisch , B. Beschoten , F. Hassler , C. Stampfer

We present a detailed theoretical study of bilayer-graphene's electronic properties in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. Using group-theoretical methods, we derive an invariant expansion of the Hamiltonian for electron states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 R. Winkler , U. Zülicke

A novel approach for extracting gauge-invariant information about spin-orbit coupling in gravitationally interacting binary systems is introduced. This approach is based on the "scattering holonomy", i.e. the integration (from the infinite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour