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Spin-orbit interaction couples the spin of a particle to its motion and leads to spin-induced transport phenomena such as spin-Hall effects and Chern insulators. In this work, we extend the concept of internal-external state coupling to…

We propose a method to obtain a regular arrangement of two-level atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice with unit filling, where all the atoms share internal state coherence and metrologically useful quantum correlations. Such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 Dariusz Kajtoch , Emilia Witkowska , Alice Sinatra

The effects of spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from the confinement potential in single and two vertically-coupled quantum dots have been investigated. Our work indicates that a dot containing a single electron shows the lifting of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anjana Bagga , Pekka Pietilainen , Tapash Chakraborty

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

We discuss pairing of light-matter bosons under effective spin-orbit (SO) coupling in two-dimensional semiconductors. The SO coupling is shown to induce dynamical broadening of a two-body bound state. Application of a transverse magnetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-02 Sergueï V. Andreev

We study the ground-state behavior of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in a Raman-laser-assisted one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice potential forming a multilayer system. We find that, such system can be described by an effective model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-10 Qing Sun , Jie Hu , Lin Wen , W. -M. Liu , G. Juzeliunas , An-Chun Ji

We introduce a discrete model for binary spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) trapped in a deep one-dimensional optical lattice. Two different types of the couplings are considered, with spatial derivatives acting inside…

We study ultracold bosonic atoms with the synthetic three-dimensional spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a cubic optical lattice. In the superfluidity phase, the lowest energy band exhibits one, two or four pairs of degenerate single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-15 Dan-Wei Zhang , Ji-Pei Chen , Chuan-Jia Shan , Z. D. Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We consider theoretically ultra-cold interacting bosonic atoms confined to a wire geometry and coupled to the field of an optical cavity. A spin-orbit coupling is induced via Raman transitions employing a cavity mode and a transverse…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-10 Catalin-Mihai Halati , Ameneh Sheikhan , Corinna Kollath

Cold atoms tailored by an optical lattice have become a fascinating arena for simulating quantum physics. In this area, one important and challenging problem is creating effective spin-orbit coupling (SOC), especially for fashioning a cold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Chao-Kai Li , Qian Niu , Ji Feng

We show that attractive spinor Bose-Einstein condensates under the action of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman splitting form self-sustained stable two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) states in free space, even when SOC acts in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-15 Y. V. Kartashov , L. Torner , M. Modugno , E. Ya. Sherman , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Konotop

We develop an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for spin-orbit (SO) interaction in bent carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the electrons forming the $\pi$ bonds between the nearest neighbor atoms. We account for the bend of the CNT and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 E. N. Osika , B. Szafran

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

Spin and orbital are two basic degrees of freedom that play significant roles in exploring exotic quantum phases in optical lattices with synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and high orbital bands, respectively. Here, we combine these two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Hao Huang , Kou-Han Ma , Bao-Zong Wang , W. Vincent Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

A strongly spin-orbital coupled systems could be in a magnetic ordered phase at zero field. However, a Zeeman field could drive it into different quantum or topological phases. In this work, starting from general symmetry principle, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

The existence of a spin-orbit coupling (SOC) induced by the gradient of the effective mass in low-dimensional heterostructures is revealed. In structurally asymmetric quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Matos-Abiague

We investigate the dynamics of kicked pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a tightly confined toroidal trap. The system exhibits different dynamical behaviors depending on the competition among…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-06 Qingbo Wang , Wenjing Zhao , Linghua Wen

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of a spin-orbit coupled soliton formed by a self- interacting Bose-Einstein condensate immersed in a random potential, in the presence of an artificial magnetic field. We find that due to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-17 Sh. Mardonov , V. V. Konotop , B. A. Malomed , M. Modugno , E. Ya. Sherman

The band structure of two-dimensional artificial superlattices in the presence of (Rashba-type) spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is presented. The position and shape of the energy bands in these spintronic crystals depend on the geometry as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

Light carries angular momentum as spin and orbital components. The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light refers to phenomena in which the spin (left or right circular polarisation) affects the spatial degrees of freedom. Recently, interest…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Longqing Yi , Ke Hu , Tünde Fülöp