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Spin textures in k-space arising from spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric crystals find numerous applications in spintronics. We present a mechanism that leads to appearance of k-space spin texture due to spontaneous symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-24 J. Kunes , D. Geffroy

Non-trivial momentum-space spin texture of electrons can be induced by spin-orbit coupling and underpins various spin transport phenomena, such as current-induced spin polarization and spin Hall effect. In this work, we find a non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Kaijie Yang , Yuanxi Wang , Chao-Xing Liu

Halide perovskites are perceived to be the promising class of materials for optoelectronics, spinorbitronics and topological electronics due to presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and polarized field. Here, we develop a Hamiltonian using…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Mayank Gupta , B. R. K. Nanda

Skyrmions are topological spin textures of interest for fundamental science and applications. Previous theoretical studies have focused on systems with broken bulk inversion symmetry, where skyrmions are stabilized by easy-axis anisotropy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-16 James Rowland , Sumilan Banerjee , Mohit Randeria

Spin textures with nontrivial topology, such as vortices and skyrmions, have attracted attention as a source of unconventional magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena. Recently, a new generation of topological spin textures has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-08 Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

It is recently noted that in certain centrosymmetric compounds, spin-orbit interaction couples each local sector that lacks inversion symmetry and thus leads to visible spin polarization effects in the real space, dubbed as 'hidden spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Hongyi Sun , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

The spin orbit interaction plays a crucial role in diverse fields of condensed matter, including the investigation of Majorana fermions, topological insulators, quantum information and spintronics. In III V zinc blende semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 A. Sasaki , S. Nonaka , Y. Kunihashi , M. Kohda , T. Bauernfeind , T. Dollinger , K. Richter , J. Nitta

This work introduces a pair of novel universal MJ spintronic models that precisely mirror the complex spin textures observed in spintronic materials. The spin-orbit coupled (SOC) Hamiltonians H_MJ1 and H_MJ2 reveal a range of novel and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Manish Kumar Mohanta , Puru Jena

Topological materials host robust surface states, which could form the basis for future electronic devices. As such states have spins that are locked to the momentum, they are of particular interest for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-05 Yuefeng Yin , Michael S. Fuhrer , Nikhil V. Medhekar

Superconductors are famously capable of supporting persistent electrical currents, that is, currents that flow without any measurable decay as long as the material is kept in the superconducting state. We introduce here a class of materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-31 Kyle Monkman , Joan Weng , Niclas Heinsdorf , Alberto Nocera , Marcel Franz

We study the stability of particles in slip-stacking configuration, used to nearly double proton beam intensity at Fermilab. We introduce universal area factors to calculate the available phase space area for any set of beam parameters…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeffrey Eldred , Robert Zwaska

We demonstrate the formation of stable spatially-ordered states in a {\it uniform} and also {\it trapped} quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) coupled pseudo spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate using the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-11 S. K. Adhikari

2D materials can host interesting physics and have important applications in various fields. Recent experiment shows that monolayer PtSe$_2$ nanoflakes with neutral zigzag edges are stable. Here, we study semiconducting stoichiometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Bo-Wen Yu , Bang-Gui Liu

We derive an effective Hamiltonian for a (001)-confined quasi-two-dimensional hole gas in a strained zincblende semiconductor heterostructure including both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. In the presence of uniaxial strain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-05-23 Paul Wenk , Michael Kammermeier , John Schliemann

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 shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation predicts that sufficiently soft, non-crystalline solids are linearly unstable against forming periodic arrays of microstructural shear bands. A limited nonlinear analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Langer

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter that are insulating in the bulk but metallic on the edge or surface. In the Dirac surface state, it is well-established that the electron spin is locked with the crystal…

Topological protection precludes a continuous deformation between topologically inequivalent configurations in a continuum. Motivated by this concept, magnetic skyrmions, topologically nontrivial spin textures, are expected to exhibit the…

Spin-orbit interactions which couple spin of a particle with its momentum degrees of freedom lie at the center of spintronic applications. Of special interest in semiconductor physics are Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

We investigate the persistent spin currents in one- and two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction in thermodynamics equilibrium at absolute zero temperature. The persistent spin current is the intrinsic one which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Xiang Zhou , Cheng-Zheng Hu , Zhenyu Zhang , Ling Miao , Xia Wang