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We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

A recent experiment showed that proximity induced Ising spin-orbit coupling enhances the spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene. Here, we show that, due to the nearly perfect spin rotation symmetry of graphene, the…

Recent experiments indicate that crystalline graphene multilayers exhibit much of the richness of their twisted counterparts, including cascades of symmetry-broken states and unconventional superconductivity. Interfacing Bernal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Jin Ming Koh , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

Within the framework of optical Dirac theory, we present a field-theoretical model of spin-orbit interaction and photonic spin/orbit Hall effects. Our approach reformulates light propagation along helical paths as solving the Maxwell…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Lili Yang , Longlong Feng

We propose an electronic L\'evy glass built from graphene nanoribbons in the presence of regions with enhanced spin-orbit coupling. Although electrons in graphene nanoribbons present a low spin-orbit coupling strength, it can be increased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego B. Fonseca , Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

We investigate the optical properties in a minimal model of spin-orbit coupled systems on honeycomb lattice at half-filling. The absorption of the circularly polarized light in the charge and antiferromagnetic ordered states is particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose

In this work, the spin wave calculations were carried out using the Heisenberg Hamiltonian to study the allowed spin waves of zigzag and armchair edged stripes for ferromagnetic nanodots arrayed in a 2D honeycomb lattice \cite{Selim2011}.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Maher Ahmed

The local magnetism induced by vacancies in the presence of the spin-orbital interaction is investigated based on the half-filled Kane-Mele-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice. Using the self-consistent mean-field theory, we find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-10 Weng-Hang Leong , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li

We demonstrate that due to their spin-orbit interaction carbon nanotube cross-junctions have attractive spin projective properties for transport. First, we show that the junction can be used as a versatile spin filter as a function of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Francesco Mazza , Bernd Braunecker , Patrik Recher , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

The interaction between a quantum particle's spin angular momentum and its orbital angular momentum is ubiquitous in nature. In optics, the spin-orbit optical phenomenon is closely related with the light-matter interaction and has been of…

Similar to light polarization that is selected by a superposition of optical basis, electron spin direction can be controlled through a superposition of spin basis. We investigate such a spin interference occurring in photoemission of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , Ryo Noguchi , Ayumi Harasawa , Shik Shin , Takeshi Kondo , Fumio Komori

In magnetic materials, skyrmions are nanoscale regions where the orientation of electron spin changes in a vortex-type manner. Here we show that spin-orbit coupling in a focused vector beam results in a skyrmion-like photonic spin…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 Luping Du , Aiping Yang , Anatoly V. Zayats , Xiaocong Yuan

The so-called spin-orbit proximity effect experimentally realized in graphene (G) on several different heavy metal surfaces opens a new perspective to engineer the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for new generation spintronics devices. Here, via…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-10 Jagoda Slawinska , Jorge I. Cerdá

We investigate the transport properties of a graphene layer in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Quite generally, spin-orbit interactions induce spin splittings and modifications of the graphene bandstructure. We calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 M. I. Alomar , David Sanchez

The main goal of the present paper is to study how polarization of photons affects their motion in a gravitational field created by a rotating massive compact object. We study propagation of the circularly polarized beams of light in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-08 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

Spin-orbit coupling links a particle's velocity to its quantum mechanical spin, and is essential in numerous condensed matter phenomena, including topological insulators and Majorana fermions. In solid-state materials, spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-12 Victor Galitski , Ian B. Spielman

The Hamiltonian for nanocones with curvature induced spin orbit coupling have been derived. The effect of curvature induced spin orbit coupling on the electronic properties of graphitic nanocones is considered. Energy spectra for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 R. Pincak , J. Smotlacha , M. Pudlak

Matrix elements of electron-light interactions for armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons are constructed analytically using a tight-binding model. The changes in wavenumber ($\Delta n$) and pseudospin are the necessary elements if we are…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-05 K. Sasaki , K. Kato , Y. Tokura , K. Oguri , T. Sogawa

We propose an experimental scheme to create spin-orbit coupling in spin-3 Cr atoms using Raman processes. Employing linear Zeeman effect and optical Stark shift, two spin states within the ground electronic manifold are selected, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-11 Y. Deng , J. Cheng , H. Jing , C. -P. Sun , S. Yi

Magnetic proximity effects in Co/hBN/graphene heterostructures are systematically analyzed via first-principles calculations, demonstrating a pronounced localized spatial variation of the induced spin polarization of graphene's Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Klaus Zollner , Lukas Cvitkovich , Riccardo Silvioli , Andreas V. Stier , Jaroslav Fabian