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Spin-orbit coupling stands as a pivotal determinant in the realm of condensed matter physics. In recent, its profound influence on spin dynamics opens up a captivating arena with promising applications. Notably, the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Taekoo Oh , Naoto Nagaosa

Synthetic spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms couples the pseudo-spin and spatial degrees of freedom, and therefore the inherent spin symmetry of the system plays an important role. In systems of two pseudo-spin degrees, two particles contain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-05 Ayaka Usui , Abel Rojo-Francàs , James Schloss , Bruno Juliá-Díaz

The mechanism used by migratory birds to orientate themselves using the geomagnetic field is still a mystery in many species. The radical pair mechanism, in which very weak magnetic fields can influence certain types of spin-dependent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 Neill Lambert , Simone De Liberato , Clive Emary , Franco Nori

A simple exactly solvable model of canted magnetic structure appearance in the system of crystallographic and chemically equivalent atoms is proposed. The corresponding mechanism originates from the competition of intra- and interatomic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-11 E. V. Rosenfeld

We show that in the presence of ferromagnetic electronic reservoirs and spin-dependent tunnel couplings, molecular vibrations in nonmagnetic single molecular transistors induce an effective intramolecular exchange magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 S. Weiss , J. Brüggemann , M. Thorwart

Magnetic anisotropy phenomena in bimetallic antiferromagnets Mn$_2$Au and MnIr are studied by first-principles density functional theory calculations. We find strong and lattice-parameter dependent magnetic anisotropies of the ground state…

We present a finite-temperature theory of the anisotropic spin-spin correlations in magnetic metallic monolayers, deposited on a suitable substrate. The `spins' are the local moments set up by the itinerant electrons, and the key concept is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. dos Santos Dias , J. B. Staunton , A. Deak , L. Szunyogh

The exchange coupling between quantum mechanical spins lies at the origin of quantum magnetism. We report on the observation of nearest-neighbor magnetic spin correlations emerging in the many-body state of a thermalized Fermi gas in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-28 Daniel Greif , Thomas Uehlinger , Gregor Jotzu , Leticia Tarruell , Tilman Esslinger

We present theoretical evidence that a magnetic monopole emerges in dynamic magnetic systems in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction. The monopole field is expressed in terms of spin damping associated with magnetization dynamics. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, caloritronics and superconductivity. In the field of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 T. Adamantopoulos , M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , M. Ležaić , W. Feng , Y. Yao , J. Sinova , L. Šmejkal , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

A scanning tunneling microscope can probe the inelastic spin excitations of a single magnetic atom in a surface via spin-flip assisted tunneling in which transport electrons exchange spin and energy with the atomic spin. If the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

A dynamics of the precession of coupled atomic moments in the tight-binding (TB) approximation is presented. By implementing an angular penalty functional in the energy that captures the magnetic effective fields self-consistently, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Ramon Cardias , Cyrille Barreteau , Pascal Thibaudeau , Chu Chun Fu

We theoretically investigate the deflection-induced coupling of an electron spin to vibrational motion due to spin-orbit coupling in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots. Our estimates indicate that, with current capabilities, a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 András Pályi , P. R. Struck , Mark Rudner , Karsten Flensberg , Guido Burkard

Aperiodicity and un-conventional rotational symmetries allow quasicrystalline structures to exhibit unprecedented physical and functional properties. In magnetism, artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals exhibited knee anomalies suggesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Vinayak Shantaram Bhat , Sho Watanabe , Florian Kronast , Korbinian Baumgaertl , Dirk Grundler

We demonstrate that the magnetization in magnetic semiconductors exhibits nutational motion when subjected to an external magnetic field. This behavior originates from the splitting of the conduction-electron band which induces anisotropic,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-09 H. Kachkachi

Electric fields are increasingly used for coherently manipulating spin states in semiconductor and molecular systems. Here we discuss the spin manipulation allowed by the modulation of the main parameters entering the Hamiltonians of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. Troiani

We study spin-1/2 fermions in spin dependent potentials under the \emph{spin model approximation}, in which interatomic collisions that change the total occupation of single-particle modes are ignored. The spin model approximation maps the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-02 Michael L. Wall

We investigate the interplay between topological effects and Mott physics in two dimensions on a graphene-like lattice, via a tight-binding model containing an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling on the next-nearest-neighbour links and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Tianhan Liu , Benoît Douçot , Karyn Le Hur

We review recent theoretical developments about the role of spins, electron-electron interactions, and spin-orbit coupling in metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots. For a closed system, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Oreg , P. W. Brouwer , X. Waintal , Bertrand I. Halperin

We develop a numerical model that reproduces the thermal equilibrium and the spin transfer mechanisms in magnetic nanomaterials. We analyze the coherent two-particle spin exchange interaction and the electron-electron collisions. Our study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 O. Morandi