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The coupling of the spin of electrons to their motional state lies at the heart of recently discovered topological phases of matter. Here we create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum…
The existence of a spin-orbit coupling (SOC) induced by the gradient of the effective mass in low-dimensional heterostructures is revealed. In structurally asymmetric quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures the presence of a…
We show electric field control of the spin accumulation at the interface of the oxide semiconductor Nb-SrTiO$_{3}$ with Co/AlO$_{x}$ spin injection contacts at room temperature. The in-plane spin lifetime $\tau_\parallel$ as well as the…
Various multi-spin magnetic exchange interactions (MEI) of chiral nature have been recently unveiled. Owing to their potential impact on the realisation of twisted spin-textures, their implication in spintronics or quantum computing is very…
Previous theoretical studies [W. Cho, C. Platt, R. H. McKenzie, and S. Raghu, Phys. Rev. B 92, 134514 (2015); N. Lera and J. V. Alvarez, Phys. Rev. B 92, 174523 (2015)] have suggested that Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$, a quasi-one dimensional…
Quantum confinement at complex oxide interfaces establishes an intricate hierarchy of the strongly correlated $d$-orbitals which is widely recognized as a source of emergent physics. The most prominent example is the (001)…
Epitaxial graphene/ferromagnetic metal (Gr/FM) heterostructures deposited onto heavy metals (HM) have been proposed for the realization of novel spintronic devices because of their perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and sizeable…
FePS3 is a layered van der Waals (vdW) Ising antiferromagnet that has recently been studied in the context of true 2D magnetism, and emerged as an ideal material platform for investigating strong spin-phonon coupling, and non-linear…
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…
We investigate theoretically the electronic structure and transport for a two-level quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the irradiation of an external laser field at low temperatures. The photon-induced transitions…
We report on the electronic properties of few interacting electrons confined in a parabolic quantum dot based on a theoretical approach developed to investigate the influence of Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction on such a system.…
We investigate the stabilization of topological Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phases, with a specific emphasis on the intraband FFLO phase, in a one-dimensional (1D) Fermi gas subjected to an external magnetic field. This research…
We clarify the ground state phase diagram of the half-filled square-lattice Hubbard model with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) characterized by the spin-split energy bands due to broken inversion symmetry. Although the Rashba metals and…
We present an extension of the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) that incorporates Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to investigate the interplay between disorder, spin-orbit interaction, and nonlocal spatial correlations in disordered…
We unravel theoretically a key intrinsic relaxation mechanism among the low-lying singlet and triplet donor-pair states in silicon, an important element in the fast-developing field of spintronics and quantum computation. Despite the…
Spin-orbit (SO) interaction critically influences electron spin dynamics and spin transport in bulk semiconductors and semiconductor microstructures. This interaction couples electron spin to dc and ac electric fields. Spin coupling to ac…
It is well known that the critical temperature of multi-gap superconducting 3D heterostructures at atomic limit (HAL) made of a superlattice of atomic layers with an electron spectrum made of several quantum subbands can be amplified by a…
A Fermi-liquid (FL) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) supports a special type of collective modes--chiral spin waves--which are oscillations of magnetization even in the absence of the external magnetic field. We study the chiral spin waves of…
Many of the exotic properties proposed to occur in graphene rely on the possibility of increasing the spin orbit coupling (SOC). By combining analytical and numerical tight binding calculations, in this work we study the SOC induced by…
We develop an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for spin-orbit (SO) interaction in bent carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the electrons forming the $\pi$ bonds between the nearest neighbor atoms. We account for the bend of the CNT and the…