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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin, and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state phenomena has been extensively studied, its role in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-02 Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder , Jason W. A. Robinson , Igor Žutić , Niladri Banerjee

Effective spin mixing conductance (ESMC) across the nonmagnetic metal (NM)/ferromagnet interface, spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and spin diffusion length (SDL) in the NM layer govern the functionality and performance of pure spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-02 L. Ma , H. A. Zhou , L. Wang , X. L. Fan , W. J. Fan , D. S. Xue , K. Xia , G. Y. Guo , S. M. Zhou

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) lifts molecular orbital degeneracy, enabling bi-level electronic platforms suitable for next-generation digital devices. However, common light-atom molecular feedstocks exhibit weak SOC due to the absence of heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-07 Zihao Wang , Wan-Lu Li , Shaowei Li

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…

We show that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in InSe enables the optical transition across the principal band gap to couple with in-plane polarized light. This transition, enabled by $p_{x,y}\leftrightarrow p_z$ hybridization due to intra-atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 S. J. Magorrian , V. Zólyomi , V. I. Fal'ko

We study a two-component Bose gas with artificial spin-orbit coupling (SOC) which couples the center-of-mass momentum of atom to its internal states. We show that in this system resonance can be induced by tuning SOC strength. With a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-10 Qi Gu , Lan Yin

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

Manipulating spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is important for devices such as spin-orbit torque based memory and its understanding is neccessary to answer several fundamental open questions in triplet state superconductivity, topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Kalon Gopinadhan , A. Annadi , Younghyun Kim , Amar Srivastava , Brijesh Kumar , Jingsheng Chen , J. M. D. Coey , Ariando , T. Venkatesan

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

Motivated by recent experimental development, we investigate spin-orbit coupled repulsive Fermi atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Using the density-matrix renormalization group method, we calculate momentum distribution function,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-09 Xiaofan Zhou , Kuang Zhang , Junjun Liang , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

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 essential in understanding the properties of 5d transition metal compounds, whose SOC value is large and almost comparable to other key parameters. Over the past few years, there have been numerous studies on…

Spin-orbital coupling (SOC) and parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry both have attracted paramount research interest in condensed matter physics, cold atom physics, optics and acoustics to develop spintronics, quantum computation, precise…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-29 Jieli Qin , Lu Zhou , Guangjiong Dong

We theoretically demonstrate that screw dislocation (SD), a 1D topological defect widely present in semiconductors, exhibits ubiquitously a new form of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect. Differing from the widely known conventional 2D…

We demonstrate the emergence of the non-Abelian geometric potentials and thus the three-dimensional (3D) spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold atoms without using the laser beams. This is achieved by subjecting an atom to a periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-12 Povilas Račkauskas , Viktor Novičenko , Han Pu , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Spin-orbit coupling in solids describes an interaction between an electron's spin, an internal quantum-mechanical degree of freedom, with its linear momentum, an external property. Spin-orbit interaction, due to its relativistic nature, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 J. Shabani , Younghyun Kim , A. P. McFadden , R. M. Lutchyn , C. Nayak , C. J. palmstrøm

The coupling between electron orbital momentum and spin momentum, known as spin-orbit coupling (SOC), is a fundamental origin of a multitude of fascinating physical phenomena, especially it holds paramount significance in the realm of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-01 Surasree Sadhukhan , Sudipta Kanungo

The tunability of high-mobility organic semi-conductors (OSCs) holds great promise for molecular spintronics. In this study, we show this extreme variability - and therefore potential tunability - of the molecular gyromagnetic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-25 Erik R. McNellis , Sam Schott , Henning Sirringhaus , Jairo Sinova

High fidelity entanglement of an on-chip array of spin qubits poses many challenges. Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can ease some of these challenges by enabling long-ranged entanglement via electric dipole-dipole interactions, microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 J. Salfi , J. A. Mol , Dimitrie Culcer , S. Rogge

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductors is strongly influenced by structural asymmetries, as prominently observed in bulk crystal structures that lack inversion symmetry. Here, we study an additional effect on the SOC: the asymmetry…