Related papers: Chiral ferromagnetism beyond Lifshitz invariants
The spontaneous magnetization of a two-dimensional lattice model can be expressed in terms of the partition function $W$ of a system with fixed boundary spins and an extra weight dependent on the value of a particular central spin. For the…
Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with broken inversion symmetry $P$ offer rich physical phenomena such as the upper critical magnetic field $H_{c2}$ beyond the Pauli limit and magnetoelectric effect. The relativistic spin-orbit…
We study the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the charge and spin degrees of freedom of a quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) Wigner crystal. As electrons in a quasi-1D Wigner crystal can move in the transverse direction, SOC…
We show that in the two-component Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling an arbitrarily small attractive interaction between bosons with opposite spin induces spontaneous ferromagnetism below a finite critical temperature $T_c$. In the…
We report the large linear magnetoresistance ($\sim 300\%$ in 9 T field at 2 K) and magnetothermopower in layered SrZnSb$_2$ crystal with quasi-two-dimensional Sb layers. A crossover from the semiclassical parabolic field dependent…
In ferromagnetic superconductors, like URhGe, superconductivity co-exists with magnetism near zero field, but then re-appears again in a finite field range, where the system also displays mass enhancement in the normal state. We present…
We study the transformation properties of the electron states in crystals with spin-orbit coupling, focusing primarily on the limitations of the frequently used pseudospin-1/2 description of twofold degenerate Bloch bands. Using the…
We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric…
The development of advanced spintronics devices hinges on the efficient generation and utilization of pure spin current. In materials with large spin-orbit coupling, the spin Hall effect may convert charge current to pure spin current and a…
In the recent letter [1] by H. Ikeda and Y. Ohashi, a new, very attractive idea is proposed for the explanation of the micromagnetism in U-based heavy fermion compounds. For this sake a nontrivial spin density wave (d-SDW) is introduced.…
As nanomagnetic devices scale to smaller sizes, spin-orbit coupling due to the broken structural inversion symmetry at interfaces becomes increasingly important. Here we study interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers…
We investigate long-range chiral magnetic interactions among adatoms mediated by surface states spin-splitted by spin-orbit coupling. Using the Rashba model, the tensor of exchange interactions is extracted wherein a pseudo-dipolar…
We argue that in order to study the magneto-transport in a relativistic Weyl fluid, it is needed to take into account the associated quantum corrections, namely the side-jump effect, at least to second order. To this end, we impose Lorentz…
We study a microscopic derivation and the properties of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) between local magnetic moments in ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures. First, we derive DMI by Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida…
Quantum magneto-oscillations provide a powerfull tool for quantifying Fermi-liquid parameters of metals. In particular, the quasiparticle effective mass and spin susceptibility are extracted from the experiment using the Lifshitz-Kosevich…
We theoretically study the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) mediated by band electrons with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We first derive a general formula for the coefficient ${\bm D}_i$ of the DMI in free energy in terms of…
Our experimental (neutron diffraction, M\"ossbauer spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat) and numerical studies on the evolution of short- and long-range magnetic order in $\gamma_{\rm II}$-Li\(_2\)FeSiO\(_4\) suggest a…
Non-magnetic materials without inversion symmetry typically exhibit strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), enabling the well-known Rashba Edelstein effect where an external electrical current induces transverse spin polarisation. In this…
We report on a theoretical study of spin dynamics of an ensemble of spin-polarized electrons injected in a diffusive microchannel with linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We explore the dependence of the spin-precession and…
The effects of structural (Rashba) and bulk (Dresselhaus) spin-orbit interaction terms on the low-field magnetoresistance are investigated in high-quality two dimensional systems. The weak localization theory accounting for both of these…