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Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-02 Yun Li , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

The proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in heterostructures of twisted graphene and topological insulators (TIs) Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$ is investigated from first principles. To build commensurate supercells, we strain…

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We generalize a Landauer-type formula, using a real$\otimes$spin-space Green function technique, to treat spin-dependent transport in quantum-coherent conductors attached to two ferromagnetic contacts. The formalism is employed to study the…

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The spin-split states subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems have long been accepted as pointing inplane and perpendicular to the corresponding wave vectors. This is in general true for free electron model, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-13 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

Spin electromagnetic fields driven by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, or Rashba-induced spin Berry's phase, in ferromagnetic metals is theoretically studied based on the Keldysh Green's function method. Considering a limit of strong sd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Noriyuki Nakabayashi , Gen Tatara

On the basis of the multi-orbital dynamical mean field theory, a three-orbital Hubbard model with a relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is studied at five electrons per site. The numerical calculations are performed by employing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Toshihiro Sato , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

The theoretical understanding of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects at LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interfaces and SrTiO$_{3}$ surfaces is still in its infancy. We perform first-principles density-functional-theory calculations and derive…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-08 Zhicheng Zhong , Anna Toth , Karsten Held

We consider a model for the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the interface of oxide heterostructures, which includes a Rashba spin-orbit coupling proportional to the electric field perpendicular to the interface. Based on the standard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-13 S. Caprara , F. Peronaci , M. Grilli

Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a quintessential spin interaction appearing in virtually any electronic heterostructure. Its paradigmatic spin texture in the momentum space forms a tangential vector field. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Tobias Frank , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate the effect of spin orbit coupling on proximity induced superconductivity in a normal metal attached to a superconductor. Specifically, we consider a heterostructure where the presence of interfaces gives rise to a Rashba spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-30 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of the two-dimensional hole gas in the inversion symmetric semiconductor Ge is studied in a strained-Ge/SiGe quantum well structure. We observed weak anti-localization (WAL) in the magnetoconductivity…

Heterostructures containing strongly correlated electron systems provide a platform to clarify interplay of electron correlation and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in unconventional superconductors. Motivated by recent fabrication of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-14 Kosuke Nogaki , Youichi Yanase

Various multi-spin magnetic exchange interactions (MEI) of chiral nature have been recently unveiled. Owing to their potential impact on the realisation of twisted spin-textures, their implication in spintronics or quantum computing is very…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-19 Samir Lounis

Electronic Raman scattering in the fully symmetric channel couples to the charge excitations in the system, including the plasmons. However, the plasmon response has a spectral weight of $\sim q^2$, where $q$, the momentum transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Surajit Sarkar , Alexander Lee , Girsh Blumberg , Saurabh Maiti

We study the two-dimensional Hubbard model with the Rashba type spin-orbit coupling within and beyond the mean-field theory. The antiferromagnetic ground state for the model at half-filling and the Cooper pairing induced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-23 Jingxiang Zhao , Qiang Gu

We investigate the effects of attractive Hubbard interaction on two-component fermionic atoms in narrow two-dimensional (2D) energy bands that exhibit Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the presence of an applied Zeeman field. This…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-30 T. D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari , V. W. Scarola

In this review article we describe spin-dependent transport in materials with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. We mainly focus on semiconductor heterostructures, topological insulators, graphene and hybrid structures involving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Dario Bercioux , Procolo Lucignano

Spin-orbit (SO) interactions in two dimensional systems split the Fermi surface, and allow for the spatial separation of spin-states via transverse magnetic focusing (TMF). In this work, we consider the case of combined Rashba and Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Samuel S. R. Bladwell , Oleg P. Sushkov

We investigate the superconductivity in two-dimensional electron systems formed in SrTiO3 nanostructures. Our the- oretical analysis is based on the three-orbital model, which takes into account t2g orbitals of Ti ions. Because of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-10 Yasuharu Nakamura , Youichi Yanase

The spin-orbit interaction affects the electronic structure of solids in various ways. Topological insulators are one example where the spin-orbit interaction leads the bulk bands to have a non-trivial topology, observable as gapless…

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