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The recent experimental realization of spin-orbit (SO) coupling for ultracold bosons and fermions opens an exciting avenue for engineering quantum matter that may be challenging to realize in solid state materials such as SO coupled spin-1…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-13 Junpeng Hou , Haiping Hu , Chuanwei Zhang

We present a theoretical analysis of spin-coherent electronic transport across a mesoscopic dot-cavity system. Such spin-coherent transport has been recently demonstrated in an experiment with a dot-cavity hybrid implemented in a…

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By viewing current in the detecting lead of a spintronic device as being an ensemble of flowing spins corresponding to a mixed quantum state, where each spin itself is generally described by an improper mixture generated during the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

We demonstrate the emergence of the non-Abelian geometric potentials and thus the three-dimensional (3D) spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold atoms without using the laser beams. This is achieved by subjecting an atom to a periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-12 Povilas Račkauskas , Viktor Novičenko , Han Pu , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures take advantage of tailoring spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the graphene layer by proximity effect. At long-wavelength -- saddled by the electronic states near the Dirac points -- the proximitized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Wun-Hao Kang , Michael Barth , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ming-Hao Liu , Denis Kochan

We investigated effects of a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the condensed density and superfluid density tensor of a two-component Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover at zero temperature. In anisotropic three dimensions (3D), we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Kezhao Zhou , Zhidong Zhang

Topological Bloch oscillations are a hallmark of quantum transport phenomenon in which wavepackets undergo oscillatory motion driven by the interplay between an external force and topological edge states and serve as a powerful dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-20 Chunyan Li , Ce Shang , Boris A. Malomed

The presence of spin-orbit coupling drives the anomalous magnetotransport at oxide interfaces and forms the basis for numerous intriguing properties of these 2D electron systems, such as topologically protected phases or anti-localization.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-28 Patrick Seiler , Jone Zabaleta , Robin Wanke , Jochen Mannhart , Thilo Kopp , Daniel Braak

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the interaction between the spin and momentum of a quantum particle, is crucial for many important condensed matter phenomena. The recent experimental realization of SOC in neutral bosonic cold atoms provides a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-24 Yongping Zhang , Li Mao , Chuanwei Zhang

Recently, topological superconductors have emerged as a pivotal frontier in condensed matter physics, owing to the exotic properties of Majorana quasiparticles residing on edges, surfaces, and vortex cores. In this work, we investigate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan-Wen Lai , Meng-Chien Wang , Ching-Ray Chang , Seng-Ghee Tan

Quantum statistics and symmetrization dictate that identical fermions do not interact via s-wave collisions. However, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), fermions prepared in identical internal states with distinct momenta become…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 S. L. Bromley , S. Kolkowitz , T. Bothwell , D. Kedar , A. Safavi-Naini , M. L. Wall , C. Salomon , A. M. Rey , J. Ye

We theoretically explore atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to position-dependent spin-orbit coupling (SOC). This SOC can be produced by cyclically laser coupling four internal atomic ground (or metastable) states in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-06 S. -W. Su , S. -C. Gou , I. -K. Liu , I. B. Spielman , L. Santos , A. Acus , A. Mekys , J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliūnas

We investigate the superfluidity of attractive Fermi gas in a square optical lattice with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We show that the system displays a variety of new filling-dependent features. At half filling, a quantum phase transition…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Q. Sun , G. -B. Zhu , W. -M. Liu , A. -C. Ji

Oxide heterostructures with polar films display special electronic properties, such as the electronic reconstruction at their internal interfaces with the formation of two-dimensional metallic states. Moreover, the electrical field from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Kevin Steffen , Florian Loder , Thilo Kopp

We consider electronic transport through semiconducting nanowires (W) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), in a hybrid N-W-N setup where the wire is contacted by normal-metal leads (N). We investigate the conductance behavior of the system as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rainis , Daniel Loss

The study of multi-band superconductivity is relevant for a variety of systems, from ultra cold atoms with population imbalance to particle physics, and condensed matter. As a consequence, this problem has been widely investigated bringing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha , Heron Caldas

Semiconductors in the proximity of superconductors have been proposed to support phases hosting Majorana bound states. When the systems undergo a topological phase transition towards the Majorana phase, the spectral gap closes, then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Doru Sticlet , Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Balázs Dóra

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

The spin currents generated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the nonmagnetic metal layer or at the interface with broken inversion symmetry are of particular interest and importance. Here, we have explored the spin current generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-02 Q. B. Liu , K. K. Meng , S. Q. Zheng , Y. C. Wu , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Jiang

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) affecting the center of mass of ultracold atoms can be simulated using a properly chosen periodic sequence of magnetic pulses. Yet such a method is generally accompanied by micro-motion which hinders a precise…