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Anomalous Hall effect and spin Hall effect originate due to spin-orbit coupling that in the Kohn-Luttinger ${\bf k}\cdot{\bf p}$ formalism is represented by anomalous terms in the coordinate and velocity operators. Relation of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emmanuel I. Rashba

We study the spin Hall effect in the kagom\'{e} lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The conserved spin Hall conductance $\sigma_{xy}^{s}$ (see text) and its two components, i.e., the conventional term $\sigma_{xy}^{s0}$ and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guocai Liu , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Shu-Shen Li

A model with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit (SO) couplings and Hubbard electron-electron interaction is studied on planar strips at quarter filling at zero temperature in the clean limit. In the absence of Hubbard repulsion and at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Jose A. Riera

It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

Inclusion of spin-dependent interactions in graphene in the vicinity of the Dirac points can be posed in terms of non-Abelian gauge potentials. Such gauge potentials being surrogates of physical electric fields and material parameters, only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Bertrand Berche , Nelson Bolí var , Alexander López , Ernesto Medina

We consider quantum spin Hall effect in an anisotropic strip of stripes and address both integer and fractional filling factors. The first model is based on a gradient of spin-orbit interaction in the direction perpendicular to the stripes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Jelena Klinovaja , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The tilting angular dependence of the energy gap was measured in the bilayer quantum Hall state at the Landau level filling $\nu=1$ by changing the density imbalance between the two layers. The observed gap behavior shows a continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Terasawa , M. Morino , K. Nakada , S. Kozumi , A. Sawada , Z. F. Ezawa , N. Kumada , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama , T. Saku

We study the coupling of Abelian gauge theories to four-dimensional simplicial quantum gravity. The gauge fields live on dual links. This is the correct formulation if we want to compare the effect of gauge fields on geometry with similar…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-02-03 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , J. Jurkiewicz

We investigate the transport properties in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon in the presence of an external electric field. The staggered sublattice potential and two kinds of Rashba spin-orbit couplings can be induced by the external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

Anomalous and spin Hall effects are investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction where the applied voltage produces a Rashba spin-or bit coupling within the tunneling barrier layer. The ferromagnetic electrodes are the source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. V. Vedyayev , M. S. Titova , N. V. Ryzhanova , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , E. Y. Tsymbal

The anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is studied within the Kubo-Streda formalism in the presence of pointlike potential impurities. We find that all contributions to the…

We consider the quantum spin hall state in a three orbital model due to certain loop current order induced by spin-dependent interactions. This type of order is motivated by the loop current model which is proposed to describe the pseudogap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Yan He , Changtao Hou

We describe the simultaneous effects of the spin-orbit (SO) perturbation and a magnetic field $B$ on a disk shaped quantum dot (QD). {As it is known the} combination of electrostatic forces among the $N$ electrons confined in the QD and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Recently, we have found an additional spin-orbit (SO) interaction in quantum wells with two subbands [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 076603 (2007)]. This new SO term is non-zero even in symmetric geometries, as it arises from the intersubband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 Rafael S. Calsaverini , Esmerindo Bernardes , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

Using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula and Green's function approach, we calculate numerically the spin-Hall conductance in a two-dimensional junction system with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting

Electromagnetic duality between the Aharonov-Bohm and the Aharonov-Casher quantum mechanical phases predicts the existence of a new collective state of matter which can be regarded as a spin dual to the fractional quantum Hall effect. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Jean J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

Recent experiments demonstrate that antiferromagnets exhibit the spin Hall effect. We study a tight-binding model of an antiferromagnet on a square lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and disorder. By exact diagonalization of a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Camilla Espedal , Arne Brataas

We develop a theory of the half-filled Landau level which shows that it is a two-component fluid. One of the components has spin up and the other spin down so that the electron-spin resonance can occur. The 1/3 filled level is fully spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keshav N. Shrivastava

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

A formula for the Hall response of interacting multi-band systems with arbitrary band topology and spin-orbit coupling is derived. The formula is valid at finite frequency, which is relevant for Faraday rotation, and it takes into account…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 R. Nourafkan , A. - M. S. Tremblay