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A theory is introduced for spin relaxation and spin diffusion of hopping carriers in a disordered system. For disorder described by a distribution of waiting times between hops (e.g. from multiple traps, site-energy disorder and/or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 N. J. Harmon , M. E. Flatté

Measurements of switching via spin-orbit coupling (SOC) mechanisms are discussed for a pair of inverted Pt/Co/Pt stacks with asymmetrical Pt thicknesses. Taking into account the planar Hall effect contribution, effective fields of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cheow Hin Sim , Jian Cheng Huang , Michael Tran , Kwaku Eason

In condensed-matter physics spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a fundamental physical interaction, which describes how the electrons' spin couples to their orbital motion. It is the source of a vast variety of fascinating phenomena in solids such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 Khalil Zakeri , Dominik Rau , Jasmin Jandke , Fang Yang , Wulf Wulfhekel , Christophe Berthod

We report on the influence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the Fe-based superconductors (FeSCs) via application of circularly-polarized spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We combine this technique in representative members…

Spin-active color centers in solids show good performance for quantum technologies. Several transition-metal defects in SiC offer compatibility with telecom and semiconductor industries. However, whether their strong spin-orbit coupling…

With octahedrally coordinated $t_{\rm 2g}$ orbitals which are active at filling $n=2$, the $\rm Sr_2CrO_4$ compound exhibits rich interplay of spin-orbital physics with tetragonal distortion induced crystal field tuning by external agent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-20 Shubhajyoti Mohapatra , Dheeraj Kumar Singh , Avinash Singh

Recent theoretical studies of topologically nontrivial electronic states in Kondo insulators have pointed to the importance of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for stabilizing these states. However, systematic experimental studies that tune the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 S. Dzsaber , L. Prochaska , A. Sidorenko , G. Eguchi , R. Svagera , M. Waas , A. Prokofiev , Q. Si , S. Paschen

Manipulating the electron spin with the aid of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an indispensable element of spintronics. Electrostatically gating a material with strong SOC results in an effective magnetic field which can in turn be used to…

We investigate the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in $\alpha$- and $\kappa$-phase BEDT-TTF and BEDT-TSF organic salts. Contrary to the assumption that SOC in organics is negligible due to light C, S, H atoms, we show the relevance of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Stephen M. Winter , Kira Riedl , Roser Valenti

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

It has recently been shown that the SOiCI approach [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34 (2022) 224007], in conjunction with the spin-separated exact two-component relativistic Hamiltonian, can provide very accurate fine structures of systems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Yang Guo , Ning Zhang , Wenjian Liu

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) affecting the center of mass of ultracold atoms can be simulated using a properly chosen periodic sequence of magnetic pulses. Yet such a method is generally accompanied by micro-motion which hinders a precise…

In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, quantum models for semiconductor materials are generally not exactly solvable. As a result, understanding of the strong spin-orbit coupling effects in these systems remains poor. Here we develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Rui Li , Lian-Ao Wu , Xuedong Hu , J. Q. You

We derive an effective Hamiltonian which describes the dynamics of electrons in the conduction band of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in the presence of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. We discuss in detail both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Neil D. Drummond , Guido Burkard

We study spin-dependent diffusive transport in the presence of a tunable spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a two-dimensional electron system. The spin precession of an electron in the SO coupling field is expressed in terms of a covariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Shimul Akhanjee

Quantum statistics and symmetrization dictate that identical fermions do not interact via s-wave collisions. However, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), fermions prepared in identical internal states with distinct momenta become…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 S. L. Bromley , S. Kolkowitz , T. Bothwell , D. Kedar , A. Safavi-Naini , M. L. Wall , C. Salomon , A. M. Rey , J. Ye

Disorder in spin-orbit (SO) coupling is an important feature of real low-dimensional electron structures. We study spin relaxation due to such a disorder as well as resulting abilities of spin manipulation. The spin relaxation reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , V. I. Ivanov , J. Barnas

We propose a scheme to manipulate the spin relaxation in vertically coupled semiconductor double quantum dots. Up to {\em twelve} orders of magnitude variation of the spin relaxation time can be achieved by a small gate voltage applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu

We theoretically explore atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to position-dependent spin-orbit coupling (SOC). This SOC can be produced by cyclically laser coupling four internal atomic ground (or metastable) states in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-06 S. -W. Su , S. -C. Gou , I. -K. Liu , I. B. Spielman , L. Santos , A. Acus , A. Mekys , J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliūnas

Quantum localization via atomic point defects in semiconductors is of significant fundamental and technological importance. Quantum defects in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have been proposed as stable and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-30 Chitraleema Chakraborty , Christopher J. Ciccarino , Prineha Narang