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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is central to many physical phenomena, including fine structures of atomic spectra and quantum topological matters. Whereas SOC is in general fixed in a physical system, atom-laser interaction provides physicists a…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays a crucial role in many branches of physics. In this context, the recent experimental realization of the coupling between spin and linear momentum of ultracold atoms opens a completely new avenue for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Kuei Sun , Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang

Synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in controlled quantum systems such as cold atoms or trapped ions has been of great interest. Here we show, both theoretically and computationally, a simplest realization of SOC using two-level cold atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , C. H. Oh

Engineered spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in cold atom systems can aid in the study of novel synthetic materials and complex condensed matter phenomena. Despite great advances, alkali atom SOC systems are hindered by heating from spontaneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-08 S. Kolkowitz , S. L. Bromley , T. Bothwell , M. L. Wall , G. E. Marti , A. P. Koller , X. Zhang , A. M. Rey , J. Ye

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

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

Anderson localization is a single particle localization phenomena in disordered media that is accompanied by an absence of diffusion. Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes an interaction between a particle's spin and its momentum that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-23 Y. Yue , C. A. R. Sá de Melo , I. B. Spielman

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) drives interesting and non-trivial phenomena in solid state physics, ranging from topological to magnetic to transport properties. Thorough study of such phenomena often require effective models where SOC term is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

Study of the combined effects of strong electronic correlations with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) represents a central issue in quantum materials research. Predicting emergent properties represents a huge theoretical problem since the presence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-14 L. Lu , M. Song , W. Liu , A. P. Reyes , P. Kuhns , H. O. Lee , I. R. Fisher , V. F. Mitrović

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the intrinsic interaction between a particle spin and its motion, is responsible for various important phenomena, ranging from atomic fine structure to topological condensed matter physics. The recent experimental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-05 Yongping Zhang , Gang Chen , Chuanwei Zhang

We realize the dynamical 1D spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined within an optical cavity. The SOC emerges through spin-correlated momentum impulses delivered to the atoms via Raman transitions. These are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 Ronen M. Kroeze , Yudan Guo , Benjamin L. Lev

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

In atoms spin-orbit coupling (SOC) cannot raise the angular momentum above a maximum value or lower it below a minimum. Here we show that this need not be the case in materials built from nanoscale structures including multi-nuclear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 A. L. Khosla , A. C. Jacko , J. Merino , B. J. Powell

Cold atoms with laser-induced spin-orbit (SO) interactions provide intriguing new platforms to explore novel quantum physics beyond natural conditions of solids. Recent experiments demonstrated the one-dimensional (1D) SO coupling for boson…

Light carries angular momentum as spin and orbital components. The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light refers to phenomena in which the spin (left or right circular polarisation) affects the spatial degrees of freedom. Recently, interest…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Longqing Yi , Ke Hu , Tünde Fülöp

Spin-orbit coupling links a particle's velocity to its quantum mechanical spin, and is essential in numerous condensed matter phenomena, including topological insulators and Majorana fermions. In solid-state materials, spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-12 Victor Galitski , Ian B. Spielman

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is known to play an important role in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures. Here we demonstrate that SOC results in the spontaneous generation of vortices in an \textit{s}-wave superconductor placed below a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 L. A. B. Olde Olthof , X. Montiel , J. W. A. Robinson , A. I. Buzdin

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) describes the emergence of spin-polarized electron transport in chiral systems without magnetic fields, a remarkable effect in light-element materials with weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

We present a new model for the study of spin-orbit coupling in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems and solve it exactly to find the spectral properties of such systems. We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Moroz , K. V. Samokhin , C. H. W. Barnes

The interplay between spin and orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to a variety of emergent phases in correlated 4d and 5d transition-metal systems. Strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) significantly alters Jahn-Teller (JT) physics, often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-28 A. S. Miñarro , G. Herranz