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We study the continuum limit of two-dimensional chiral magnets in which Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is due to the interplay between a smooth magnetic texture and spin-orbit coupling. The resulting free-energy density of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Doru Sticlet , Frédéric Piéchon

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

It was experimentally observed that both magnetic anisotropy and spin-orbit interaction strength change when the magnetization of the nanomagnet is reversed. This indicates a variation in spin-orbit interaction strength depending on whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Vadym Zayets

In single molecular magnets, chiral vibrations carrying vibrational angular momentum ($\hat{L}^{\text{vib}}$) emerge due to the splitting of a doubly degenerate vibrational mode. Here, we identify a new type of effective spin-vibrational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aman Ullah , Sergey A. Varganov , Yafis Barlas

I propose the emergence of the spin-orbital-coupled vector chirality in a non-frustrated Mott insulator with the strong spin-orbit coupling due to $ab$-plane's inversion-symmetry (IS) breaking. I derive the superexchange interactions for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-10 Naoya Arakawa

The Rashba effect leads to a chiral precession of the spins of moving electrons while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) generates preference towards a chiral profile of local spins. We predict that the exchange interaction between…

Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since electrical reading of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Imara Lima Fernandes , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

We study an effective one-dimensional quantum model that includes friction and spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and show that the model exhibits spin polarization when both terms are finite. Most important, strong spin polarization can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Artem G. Volosniev , Hen Alpern , Yossi Paltiel , Oded Millo , Mikhail Lemeshko , Areg Ghazaryan

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

Spin-orbit coupling is relatively weak for electrons in bulk silicon, but enhanced interactions are reported in nanostructures such as the quantum dots used for spin qubits. These interactions have been attributed to various dissimilar…

It is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally that the spin chirality associated with a noncoplanar spin configuration produces a magneto-optical effect. Numerical study of the two-band Hubbard model on a triangle cluster shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Kézsmárki , S. Onoda , Y. Taguchi , T. Ogasawara , M. Matsubara , S. Iguchi , N. Hanasaki , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

By modeling a Rashba nanowire contacted to leads via an inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling profile, we investigate the equilibrium properties of the spin sector when a uniform magnetic field is applied along the nanowire axis. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi

An electric current in the presence of spin-orbit coupling can generate a spin accumulation that exerts torques on a nearby magnetization. We demonstrate that, even in the absence of materials with strong bulk spin-orbit coupling, a torque…

Altermagnets host intrinsically chirality-splitting spin waves, which offer an ideal platform for chirality-based computing with low energy consumption and fast dynamics. However, achieving precise and efficient control over spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Tong Li , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Jian-Tao Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the magnetic structures in a bilayer magnetic system with the locally inverted interlayer coupling region using Monte Carlo simulation. Stabilization of multiple magnetic structures including the magnetic skyrmion is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Chanki Lee , Hee Young Kwon , Nam Jun Kim , Han Gyu Yoon , Chiho Song , Doo Bong Lee , Jun Woo Choi , Young-Woo Son , Changyeon Won

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) describes the emergence of spin-polarized electron transport in chiral systems without magnetic fields, a remarkable effect in light-element materials with weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We show that superconducting correlations in the presence of non-zero condensate velocity can mediate the peculiar interaction between localized spins that breaks the global inversion symmetry of magnetic moments. The proposed interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-26 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the quantum transport of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary chiralities. For certain spin directions, we find a strong spin-polarized electrical current that depends on the diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , J. E. Alvarellos , Leonor Chico