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We study the correlated ground states of twisted mono-bilayer graphene with and without proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) from a transition-metal dichalcogenide layer placed on top. We perform self-consistent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jeyong Park , Mingdi Luo , Louk Rademaker , Jurgen Smet , Mathias S. Scheurer , Laura Classen

Magnetic proximity effects in Co/hBN/graphene heterostructures are systematically analyzed via first-principles calculations, demonstrating a pronounced localized spatial variation of the induced spin polarization of graphene's Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Klaus Zollner , Lukas Cvitkovich , Riccardo Silvioli , Andreas V. Stier , Jaroslav Fabian

The possibility of transporting spin information over long distances in graphene, owing to its small intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and the absence of hyperfine interaction, has led to intense research into spintronic applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Dinh Van Tuan , Frank Ortmann , David Soriano , Sergio O. Valenzuela , Stephan Roche

We experimentally observe Floquet Raman transitions in the weakly driven solid state spin system of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. The periodically driven spin system simulates a two-band Wannier-Stark ladder model, and allows us to…

Spin transitions driven by a periodically varying electric potential in dilute fluorinated graphene quantum dots are investigated. Flakes of monolayer graphene are considered as well as electrostatic electron traps induced in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

We study the quantum version of a tilting and flashing Hamiltonian ratchets, consisting of a periodic potential and a time-periodic driving field. The system dynamics is governed by a Floquet evolution matrix bearing the symmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Denisov , L. Morales-Molina , S. Flach , P. Hanggi

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium properties of a system of interacting bosons in a ring lattice. We present a Floquet driving that induces clockwise (counterclockwise) circulation of the particles among the odd (even) sites of the ring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-16 Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We investigate the effect of the twist angle on the proximity spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene/NbSe$_2$ heterostructures from first principles. The low-energy Dirac bands of several different commensurate twisted supercells are fitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Thomas Naimer , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We establish the theoretical foundation of the Floquet graphene antidot lattice, whereby massless Dirac fermions are driven periodically by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field, while having their motion excluded from an array of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Andrew Cupo , Emilio Cobanera , James D. Whitfield , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Lorenza Viola

We theoretically studied the Floquet state of gated bilayer graphene, which is irradiated by normally incident focused Gaussian beam with orbital angular momentum (OAM). According to the Floquet theory, in-plane and out-of-plane electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Ma Luo

We theoretically investigate photoinduced phenomena induced by time-periodic driving fields in two-dimensional electron gases under perpendicular magnetic fields with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using perturbation theory, we provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Juan Daniel Torres , Alexander López

We use both continuum and lattice models to study the energy-momentum dispersion and the dynamics of a wave packet for an electron moving in graphene in the presence of spin-orbit couplings and either a single potential barrier or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ranjani Seshadri , Diptiman Sen

Electrons in a lattice exhibit time-periodic motion, known as Bloch oscillation, when subject to an additional static electric field. Here we show that a corresponding dynamics can occur upon replacing the spatially periodic potential by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Vanessa Junk , Phillipp Reck , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter

Inducing and controlling spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene is key to create topological states of matter, and for the realization of spintronic devices. Placing graphene onto a transition metal dichalcogenide is currently the most…

We study the pseudospin and spin dynamical effects in single-layer silicene due to a perpendicular electric field periodically driven and its interplay with the intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit interaction. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Alexander Lopez , Francisco Mireles , John Schliemann , Benjamin Santos

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) affecting the center of mass of ultracold atoms can be simulated using a properly chosen periodic sequence of magnetic pulses. Yet such a method is generally accompanied by micro-motion which hinders a precise…

The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose an enhancement of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Santiago Giménez de Castro , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

We consider the differential conductance of a periodically driven system connected to infinite electrodes. We focus on the situation where the dissipation occurs predominantly in these electrodes. Using analytical arguments and a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Michel Fruchart , Pierre Delplace , Joseph Weston , Xavier Waintal , David Carpentier

The quantum transmission problem for a particle moving in a quantum point contact in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic field is solved semiclassically. A strong Rashba interaction and parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tommy Li

A resonantly excited coherent phonon leads to a periodic oscillation of the atomic lattice in a crystal structure bringing the material into a non-equilibrium electronic configuration. Periodically oscillating quantum systems can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Hannes Hübener , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio