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We study pairing formation and the appearance of induced spin-triplet p-wave superfluidity in dilute three-dimensional imbalanced Fermi gases in the presence of a uniform non-Abelian gauge field. This gauge field generates a synthetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 Heron Caldas , Mucio Continentino

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

We analyze spin scattering in ballistic transport of electrons through a ripple at a normal incidence of an electron flow. The model of a ripple consists of a curved graphene surface in the form of an arc of a circle connected from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 M. Pudlak , K. N. Pichugin , R. G. Nazmitdinov

The small spin-orbit interaction of carbon atoms in graphene promises a long spin diffusion length and potential to create a spin field-effect transistor. However, for this reason, graphene was largely overlooked as a possible spin-charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 S. Dushenko , H. Ago , K. Kawahara , T. Tsuda , S. Kuwabata , T. Takenobu , T. Shinjo , Y. Ando , M. Shiraishi

We describe the lattice deformation in graphene under strain effect by considering the spacial-momenta coordinates do not commute. This later can be realized by introducing the star product to end up with a generalized Heisenberg algebra.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ahmed Jellal

We analyze the spectral and transport properties of ballistic quasi one-dimensional systems in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and in-plane agnetic fields. Our results demonstrate that Rashba precession and intersubband coupling must be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Rashba-like spin-orbit interaction at oxide heterostructures emerges as a much sought-after feature in the context of oxide spintronics and spin-orbitronics. KTaO$_3$ (KTO) is one of the best substrates available for the purpose, owing to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-19 Vivek Kumar , Nirmal Ganguli

Magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a chain of planar quantum rings are investigated under the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a transverse homogeneous magnetic field. A modulation potential function models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Armen Harutyunyan

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 E. Suárez Morell , J. D. Correa , P. Vargas , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic

We derive an effective continuum model for describing the propagation of electrons in ballistic one-dimensional curved nanostructure which are marked by a strong interplay of spin-orbital degrees of freedom due to local electronic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 G. Francica , P. Gentile , M. Cuoco

Graphene supported on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate offers a novel platform to study the spin transport in graphene in presence of a substrate induced spin-orbit coupling, while preserving its intrinsic charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

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 use large-scale DFT calculations to investigate with unprecedented detail the so-called spin-orbit (SO) proximity effect in graphene adsorbed on the Pt(111) and Ni(111)/Au semi-infinite surfaces, previously studied via spin and angle…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 Jagoda Slawinska , Jorge I. Cerda

Herein, we investigate the structural, electronic and mechanical properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons upon the presence of stress applying Density Functional Theory within the GGA-PBE approximation. The uniaxial stress is applied along…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo Faccio , Pablo A. Denis , Helena Pardo , Cecilia Goyenola , Alvaro W. Mombru

We study theoretically the properties of buckled graphene-like materials, such as silicene and germanene, in a strong perpendicular magnetic field and a periodic potential. We analyze how the spin-orbit interaction and the perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Vadym M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

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

The functional renormalization group (RG) in combination with Fermi surface patching is a well-established method for studying Fermi liquid instabilities of correlated electron systems. In this article, we further develop this method and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-15 G. A. H. Schober , K. -U. Giering , M. M. Scherer , C. Honerkamp , M. Salmhofer

We present analytical and numerical results for the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on band structure, transport, and interaction effects in quantum wires when the spin precession length is comparable to the wire width. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by performing ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Zhenhua Qiao , Wei Ren , Hua Chen , L. Bellaiche , Zhenyu Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu