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Bilayer graphene, in the presence of a one-sided spin-orbit interaction (SOI) induced by a suitably chosen substrate, is predicted to exhibit unconventional Quantum Hall states. The new states arise due to strong SOI-induced splittings of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Jun Yong Khoo , Leonid Levitov

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 report a systematic study on strong enhancement of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene driven by transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Low temperature magnetotoransport measurements of graphene proximitized to different TMDs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 T. Wakamura , F. Reale , P. Palczynski , M. Q. Zhao , A. T. C. Johnson , S. Guéron , C. Mattevi , A. Ouerghi , H. Bouchiat

We use a combination of experimental techniques to demonstrate a general occurrence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) substrates. Our measurements indicate that SOI is ultra-strong and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Zhe Wang , Dong-Keun Ki , Jun Yong Khoo , Diego Mauro , Helmuth Berger , Leonid S. Levitov , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We demonstrate strong anisotropic spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene induced by monolayer WS$_2$. Direct comparison between graphene/monolayer WS$_2$ and graphene/bulk WS$_2$ system in magnetotransport measurements reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Taro Wakamura , Francesco Reale , Pawel Palczynski , Sophie Guéron , Cecilia Mattevi , Hélène Bouchiat

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…

The introduction of spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) and the subsequent appearance of a two-dimensional (2D) topological phase are crucial for voltage-controlled and zero-emission energy spintronic devices. In contrast, graphene basically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 T. Namba , K. Tamura , K. Hatsuda , T. Nakamura , C. Ohata , S. Katsumoto , J. Haruyama

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a fundamental component for electrically driven spin qubits and hybrid superconducting-semiconducting systems. In particular, Rashba SOI (RSOI) is a key mechanism enabling all-electrical spin manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Patrick Del Vecchio , Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss , Oussama Moutanabbir

Interfacial interactions allow the electronic properties of graphene to be modified, as recently demonstrated by the appearance of satellite Dirac cones in the band structure of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates. Ongoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhe Wang , Dong-Keun Ki , Hua Chen , Helmuth Berger , Allan H. MacDonald , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Bilayer graphene (BLG)-based quantum devices represent a promising platform for emerging technologies, such as quantum computing and spintronics. However, their intrinsically weak spin-orbit coupling (SOC) complicates spin and valley…

The development of a spintronics device relies on efficient generation of spin polarized currents and their electric field controlled manipulation. While observation of exceptionally long spin relaxation lengths make graphene an intriguing…

The manipulation of the electron spin degree of freedom is at the core of the spintronics paradigm, which offers the perspective of reduced power consumption, enabled by the decoupling of information processing from net charge transfer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher , Giuseppe Iannaccone

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

Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora of quantum phenomena with novel topological order have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Jiang-Xiazi Lin , Ya-Hui Zhang , Erin Morissette , Zhi Wang , Song Liu , Daniel Rhodes , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , James Hone , J. I. A. Li

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…

Spin orbit coupling (SOC) is the key to realizing time-reversal invariant topological phases of matter. Famously, SOC was predicted by Kane and Mele to stabilize a quantum spin Hall insulator; however, the weak intrinsic SOC in monolayer…

Introduction of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) into graphene with weak hydrogenation ($\sim$0.1\%) by dissociation of hydrogen silsesquioxane resist has been confirmed through the appearance of inverse spin Hall effect. The spin current was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Taketomo Nakamura , Junji Haruyama , Shingo Katsumoto

The discovery of intrinsic spin orbit fields in noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets has attracted considerable interest for both fundamental studies and technological applications. However, once such materials are synthesized, the strength of…

Topological magnons, quantized spin waves featuring nontrivial boundary modes, present a promising route toward lossless information processing. Realizing practical devices typically requires magnons excited in a controlled manner to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xueqing Wan , Quanchao Du , Jinlian Lu , Zhenlong Zhang , Jinyang Ni , Lei Zhang , Zhijun Jiang , Laurent Bellaiche

Graphene is a material with great potential in the field of spintronics, combining good conductivity with low spin--orbit coupling (SOC), which allows for the transport of spin currents over long distances. However, this lack of SOC also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Eoin Dolan , Zhendong Chi , Haozhe Yang , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova
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