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Motivated by recent progress in employing two key classes of two-dimensional materials-topological insulators and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)-as spin sources for generating spin-orbit torque (SOT), we investigate…

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We study spin-orbital coupling effect on the Josephson current through a superconductor (SC) heterojunction, consisting of two s-wave superconductors and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them. The Rashba-type (RSOC)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Yang , Y. H. Yang , J. Wang , K. S. Chan

Motivated by recent experiments exploring the spin-orbit-coupled magnetism in $4d$- and $5d$-band transition metal oxides, we study magnetic interactions in Ir- and Rh-based compounds. In these systems, the comparable strength of spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Natalia B. Perkins , Yuriy Sizyuk , Peter Wölfle

In the quest for materials hosting Kitaev spin liquids, much of the efforts have been focused on the fourth- and fifth-row transition metal compounds, which are spin-orbit coupling assisted Mott insulators. Here, we study the structural and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Shishir Kumar Pandey , Ji Feng

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

We conduct a thorough study of the persistent currents in a spin-orbit coupled ${\alpha}-T_3$ pseudospin-1 fermionic quantum ring (QR) that smoothly interpolates between graphene (${\alpha} = 0$, pseudospin-1/2) and a dice lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Mijanur Islam , Saurabh Basu

Measuring the magnetoresistance (MR) of ultraclean {\it GaAs} two-dimensional holes in a large $r_s$ range of 20-50, two striking behaviors in relation to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emerge in response to strong electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-02 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the Metal-QD-Metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device scattering region which contains Rashba spin-orbital and electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Two-dimensional hole gases in semiconductor quantum wells are promising platforms for spintronics and quantum computation but suffer from the lack of the $\bf{k}$-linear term in the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which is essential for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jia-Xin Xiong , Shan Guan , Jun-Wei Luo , Shu-Shen Li

In semiconductors, the identification of doping atomic elements allowing to encode a qubit within spin states is of intense interest for quantum technologies. In transition metal dichalcogenides semiconductors, the strong spin-orbit…

We study the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the $d$-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in metallic $d$-electron systems based on the multiorbital tight-binding model. The obtained Hall conductivities are much larger than that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Tanaka , H. Kontani , M. Naito , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

Magnetic atoms coupled to the Cooper pairs of a superconductor induce Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states (in short Shiba states). In the presence of sufficiently strong spin-orbit coupling, the bands formed by hybridization of the Shiba states in…

B20 compounds are a class of cubic helimagnets harboring nontrivial spin textures such as spin helices and skyrmions. It has been well understood that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction is the origin of these textures, and the…

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Exchange coupling between localized spins and band or topological states accounts for giant magnetotransport and magnetooptical effects as well as determines spin-spin interactions in magnetic insulators and semiconductors. However, even in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-25 Carmine Autieri , Cezary Śliwa , Rajibul Islam , Giuseppe Cuono , Tomasz Dietl

We investigate magnetic properties in the superfluid and Mott-insulating states of two-component bosons with spin-orbit (SO) coupling in 2D square optical lattices. The spin-independent hopping integral $t$ and SO coupled one $\lambda $are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-13 Zi Cai , Xiangfa Zhou , Congjun Wu

Pioneering studies in transition metal dichalcogenides have demonstrated convincingly the co-existence of multiple angular momentum degrees of freedom -- of spin (1/2 $s_z = \pm 1/2$), valley ($\tau = K, K'$ or $\pm 1$), and atomic orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Feng-Wu Chen , Yu-Shu Wu

The spin states of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots form a promising platform for quantum computation. Recent studies of silicon CMOS qubits have shown coherent manipulation of electron spin states with extremely high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 S. D. Liles , R. Li , C. H. Yang , F. E. Hudson , M. Veldhorst , A. S. Dzurak , A. R. Hamilton

We investigate transport properties of stable gate-defined quantum dots formed in an InSb$_{0.87}$As$_{0.13}$ quantum well. High $\textit{g}$-factor and strong spin-orbit-coupling make InSb$_x$As$_{1-x}$ a promising platform for exploration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 S. Metti , C. Thomas , M. J. Manfra

We consider a Kondo spin that is coupled antiferromagnetically to a large chaotic quantum dot. Such a dot is described by the so-called universal Hamiltonian and its electrons are interacting via a ferromagnetic exchange interaction. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Rotter , Y. Alhassid

Effective spin mixing conductance (ESMC) across the nonmagnetic metal (NM)/ferromagnet interface, spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and spin diffusion length (SDL) in the NM layer govern the functionality and performance of pure spin current…

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