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We use microscopic linear response theory to derive a set of equations that provide a complete description of coupled spin and charge diffusive transport in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Alvaro S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

We describe a method for creating a three-dimensional analogue to Rashba spin-orbit coupling in systems of ultracold atoms. This laser induced coupling uses Raman transitions to link four internal atomic states with a tetrahedral geometry,…

This contributed conference proceeding reviews some results about a system of a few identical particles with spin trapped in one-dimensional potentials and experiencing two-body interactions. The focus is on how symmetry, integrability, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 N. L. Harshman

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

Ferromagnetic heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the nature of spin-orbit torques arising from the interplay mediated by itinerant electrons between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xuhui Wang , Christian Ortiz Pauyac , Aurelien Manchon

We examine the problem of two particles confined in an isotropic harmonic trap, which interact via a finite-ranged Gaussian-shaped potential in two spatial dimensions. We derive an approximative transcendental equation for the energy and…

The spin-orbit splitting of the electron levels in a two-dimensional quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. It is shown that at the point of an accidental degeneracy of the two lowest levels above the ground state the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

Spin-orbit coupling is a source of strong spin dephasing in two- and three-dimensional semiconducting systems. We report that spin dephasing in a two-dimensional electron gas can be suppressed by introducing a quantum point contact.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Jae-Seung Jeong , Hyun-Woo Lee

We study the effects of dipolar interactions on a Bose-Einstein condensate with synthetically generated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The dipolar interaction we consider includes terms that couple spin and orbital angular momentum in a way…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-12 Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Anderson , Charles W. Clark

Spin-orbit coupling has novel spin-flip symmetries, a spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate owns meaningful interactions, and a toroidal trap is topologically nontrivial. We incorporate the three together and study the ground-state phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-21 Keyan Liu , Huaxin He , Chenhui Wang , Yuanyuan Chen , Yongping Zhang

We present a study of the inelastic decay rate of quasiparticles in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction. The study is done within the G0W0 approximation. The spin-orbit interaction is taken in the most general form…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 I. A. Nechaev , P. M. Echenique , E. V. Chulkov

Ultra-cold alkali atoms trapped in two distinct hyperfine states in an external magnetic field can mimic magnetic systems of spin 1/2 particles. We describe the spin-dependent effective interaction as a spin-spin interaction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 D. H. Santamore , Eddy Timmermans

Starting from a microscopic tight-binding model and using second order perturbation theory, we derive explicit expressions for the intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit interaction induced gaps in the Dirac-like low-energy band structure of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hongki Min , J. E. Hill , N. A. Sinitsyn , B. R. Sahu , Leonard Kleinman , A. H. MacDonald

We study the edge states in a two dimensional electron gas with a transverse magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In the bulk, the interplay between the external field perpendicular to the gas plane and the spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , M. J. Sanchez , C. A. Balseiro

An effective spin-orbit coupling can be generated in cold atom system by engineering atom-light interactions. In this letter we study spin-1/2 and spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and find that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-10-27 Chunji Wang , Chao Gao , Chao-Ming Jian , Hui Zhai

We obtain the approximate relativistic bound state of a spin-1/2 particle in the field of the Yukawa potential and a Coulomb-like tensor interaction with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling number k under the spin and pseudospin (p-spin)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-01 Sameer M. Ikhdair , Babatunde J. Falaye

We present an analytic description of ultracold collision between two spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions with isotropic spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type. We show that regardless of how weak the spin-orbit coupling may be, the ultracold…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Hao Duan , Li You , Bo Gao

We present the entanglement properties of the spin-orbital coupling systems with multiple degrees of freedom. After constructing the maximally entangled spin-orbital basis of bipartite, we find that the quantum entanglement length in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong-Meng Chen , Wei-Hua Wang , Liang-Jian Zou

Spin currents in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba-type spin orbit coupling are derived from a spin connection. Using a functional integral method, we recover the result derived by Sinova {\em et al.}$[ \mathrm{Phys.Rev. Lett. 92,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei O. Heinonen

We apply a circularly and linearly polarized terahertz field on a monolayer of graphene taking into account spin-orbit interactions of the intrinsic and Rashba type. It turns out that the field can not only be used to induce a gap in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Andreas Scholz , Alexander López , John Schliemann