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Interatomic hopping mediated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) entangles spin, orbital and sublattice degrees of freedom of electrons, leading to the emergence of intriguing phenomena such as novel topological insulators and exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Masaki Kato , Masao Ogata

We investigate the electronic structure of graphene on a series of 2D hexagonal nitride insulators hXN, X = B, Al, and Ga, with DFT calculations. A symmetry-based model Hamiltonian is employed to extract orbital parameters and spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Klaus Zollner , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the correlated ground states of twisted mono-bilayer graphene with and without proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) from a transition-metal dichalcogenide layer placed on top. We perform self-consistent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jeyong Park , Mingdi Luo , Louk Rademaker , Jurgen Smet , Mathias S. Scheurer , Laura Classen

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a relativistic effect, where an electron moving in an electric field experiences an effective magnetic field in its rest frame. In crystals without inversion symmetry, it lifts the spin degeneracy and leads to…

A continuum model for the effective spin orbit interaction in graphene is derived from a tight-binding model which includes the $\pi$ and $\sigma$ bands. We analyze the combined effects of the intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling, curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Huertas-Hernando , F. Guinea , A. Brataas

We present a first-principles and quantum transport study of proximity-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) in graphene on a trigonal CrSBr monolayer. Density functional theory combined with nonequilibrium Green's function calculations shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Maedeh Rassekh , Martin Gmitra

We report on theoretical investigations of the spin-orbit coupling effects in fluorinated graphene. First-principles density functional calculations are performed for the dense and dilute adatom coverage limits. The dense limit is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Susanne Irmer , Tobias Frank , Sebastian Putz , Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

We unveil novel spin-orbit torque mechanisms driven by topological edge states in magnetic graphene-based devices. Within the energy gap, a damping-like torque plateau emerges within the quantum anomalous Hall phase upon breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

We demonstrate clear weak anti-localization (WAL) effect arising from induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in WS$_2$-covered single-layer and bilayer graphene devices. Contrary to the uncovered region of a shared single-layer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Bowen Yang , Min-Feng Tu , Jeongwoo Kim , Yong Wu , Hui Wang , Jason Alicea , Ruqian Wu , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

We study the pseudo spin-orbital (SO) effects experienced by massive Dirac particles in graphene, which can potentially be of a larger magnitude compared to the conventional Rashba SO effects experienced by particles in a 2DEG semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 S. G. Tan , M. B. A. Jalil , Dax Enshan Koh , Hwee Kuan Lee , Y. H. Wu

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron-electron interaction can mutually influence each other and give rise to a plethora of intriguing phenomena in condensed matter systems. In pristine bilayer graphene, which has weak SOC, intrinsic…

In graphene, we report the first theoretical demonstration of how the intrinsic spin orbit interaction can be deduced from the theory and how it can be controlled by tuning a uniform magnetic field, and/or by changing the strength of a long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 B. S. Kandemir

The electronic band structure of monolayer phosphorene is thoroughly studied by considering the presence of spin-orbit interaction. We employ a multiorbital Slater-Koster tight-binding approach to derive effective k.p-type Hamiltonians that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Mayra Peralta , Dennis A. Freire , Rafael González-Hernández , Francisco Mireles

Graphene is known to have small intrinsic spin-orbit Interaction (SOI). In this review, we demonstrate that SOIs in graphene can be strongly enhanced by proximity effect when graphene is deposited on the top of transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Taro Wakamura , Sophie Guéron , Hélène Bouchiat

We extend the electrodynamics of two dimensional electron gases to account for the extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE). The theory is applied to doped graphene decorated with a random distribution of absorbates that induce spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Chunli Huang , Yidong Chong , Giovanni Vignale , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Recently, Bi-based compounds have attracted attentions because of the strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In this work, we figured out the role of SOC in ABi$_{3}$ (A=Sr and Ba) by theoretical investigation of the band structures, phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-21 D. F. Shao , X. Luo , W. J. Lu , L. Hu , X. D. Zhu , W. H. Song , X. B. Zhu , Y. P. Sun

We theoretically propose a graphene-based adiabatic quantum pump with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) subject to strain where two time-dependent extrinsic spin-orbit coupled barriers drive spin and charge currents. We study three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Ramin Mohammadkhani , Babak Abdollahipour , Mohammad Alidoust

We consider theoretically the influence of crystalline fields on the electronic structure of graphene placed on a layered material with reduced symmetry and large spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We use a perturbative procedure combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Tarik P. Cysne , Aires Ferreira , Tatiana G. Rappoport

Semimetals exhibit intriguing characteristics attributed to the coexistence of both electrons and holes. In rhombohedral multilayer graphene, a strong trigonal warping effect gives rise to a semi-metallic state near the Fermi surface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jing Ding , Hanxiao Xiang , Naitian Liu , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhangyuan Chen , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shuigang Xu

Research on graphene has revealed remarkable phenomena arising in the honeycomb lattice. However, the quantum spin Hall effect predicted at the K point could not be observed in graphene and other honeycomb structures of light elements due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 W. Beugeling , E. Kalesaki , C. Delerue , Y. -M. Niquet , D. Vanmaekelbergh , C. Morais Smith