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Transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit multiple polymorphs that enable the exploration of diverse quantum states, including valley-selective spin polarization, the valley Hall effect, Ising superconductivity, and nontrivial topology.…

We investigate intersubband polaritons formed in the asymmetric quantum well (AQW) embedded into the semiconductor microcavity and study the effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) acting on intersubband excitations. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We study superconductivity in spin-orbit-coupled systems in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking. We find that due to the presence of spin-orbit coupling, fluctuations of the incipient parity-breaking order generate an attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Vladyslav Kozii , Liang Fu

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emerging at the interfaces of superconducting magnetic tunnel junctions is at the heart of multiple unprecedented physical phenomena, covering triplet proximity effects induced by unconventional (spin-flip) Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) causes spin-valley locking giving rise to unconventional optical, transport, and superconducting properties. In this paper, we propose exotic superconductivity in bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-13 Yasuharu Nakamura , Youichi Yanase

The recently synthesized $\eta$-carbide-type superconductors exhibit large critical fields. A notable example is Ti$_4$Ir$_2$O, for which the upper critical field strongly violates the Pauli paramagnetic limit, behavior that is unusual for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-18 Hao Wu , Tatsuya Shishidou , Michael Weinert , Daniel F. Agterberg

We report a systematic study on strong enhancement of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene driven by transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Low temperature magnetotoransport measurements of graphene proximitized to different TMDs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 T. Wakamura , F. Reale , P. Palczynski , M. Q. Zhao , A. T. C. Johnson , S. Guéron , C. Mattevi , A. Ouerghi , H. Bouchiat

We show that the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) arising due to the in-plane electric field of the Coulomb repulsion between electrons in a two-dimensional quantum well produces an attractive component in the pair interaction Hamiltonian that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-12 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a growing class of materials which instead support dominant SOC cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Mohammad Alidoust , Chenghao Shen , Igor Zutic

We investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the optoelectronic properties of n- and p-type monolayer MoS2. The optical conductivity is calculated within the Kubo formalism. We find that the spin-flip transitions enabled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Y. M. Xiao , W. Xu , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov

The presence of a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure and in-plane mirror symmetry allows an Ising spin-orbit coupling to form in some two-dimensional materials. Examples include transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-04 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Thomas Naimer , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the effect of a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the nodal superconducting phase of an Ising superconductor. Such nodal phase was predicted to occur when applying an in-plane field beyond the Pauli limit to a superconducting monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Gal Cohen , Ranjani Seshadri , Maxim Khodas , Dganit Meidan

The immunity of Ising superconductors to external magnetic fields originates from a spin locking of the paired electrons to an intrinsic Zeeman-like field. The spin-momentum locking in non-centrosymmetric crystalline materials leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Paulina Jureczko , Jozef Haniš , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Martin Gmitra , Marcin Kurpas

We investigate the relationship between the Zeeman interaction and the inversion asymmetry induced spin orbit interactions (Rashba and Dresselhaus SOIs) in GaAs hole quantum point contacts. The presence of a strong SOI results in crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Srinivasan , D. S. Miserev , K. L. Hudson , O. Klochan , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , O. P. Sushkov , A. R. Hamilton

Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) controlled band structure of a two-dimensional superlattice allows for the modulation of the conductance of finite size devices by changing the strength of the SOI. We consider rectangular arrays and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a fundamental component for electrically driven spin qubits and hybrid superconducting-semiconducting systems. In particular, Rashba SOI (RSOI) is a key mechanism enabling all-electrical spin manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Patrick Del Vecchio , Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss , Oussama Moutanabbir

One of the most promising platforms for one-dimensional topological superconductivity is based on semiconducting nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC), where s-wave superconductivity is induced by proximity effect and an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Jorge Cayao

We study electron transport through a serial double quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and Zeeman field of amplitude B in presence of local Coulomb repulsion. The linear conductance as a function of a gate voltage Vg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Grap , S. Andergassen , J. Paaske , V. Meden