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We consider an electron confined in a gated nanowire quantum dot (NQD) with arbitrarily strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and weak static magnetic field, and treat the latter as a perturbation to seek the maximal spin-motion entangled states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Kuo Hai , Xuefang Deng , Qiong Chen , Wenhua Hai

Manipulating the electron spin with the aid of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an indispensable element of spintronics. Electrostatically gating a material with strong SOC results in an effective magnetic field which can in turn be used to…

Spin qubits hosted in silicon (Si) quantum dots (QD) are attractive due to their exceptionally long coherence times and compatibility with the silicon transistor platform. To achieve electrical control of spins for qubit scalability, recent…

The so-called neutron spin resonance consists of a prominent enhancement of the magnetic response at a particular energy and momentum transfer upon entering the superconducting state of unconventional superconductors. In the case of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-21 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

In most existing theories for iron-based superconductors, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been assumed insignificant. Even though recent experiments have revealed an influence of SOC on the electronic band structure, whether SOC fundamentally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-23 Mingwei Ma , Philippe Bourges , Yvan Sidis , Yang Xu , Shiyan Li , Biaoyan Hu , Jiarui Li , Fa Wang , Yuan Li

The control of spins and spin to charge conversion in organics requires understanding the molecular spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and a means to tune its strength. However, quantifying SOC strengths indirectly through spin relaxation effects…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can give rise to interesting physics, from spin Hall to topological insulators, normally in condensed matter systems. Recently, this topical area has extended into atomic quantum gases in searching for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-11 Z. F. Xu , L. You

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) affecting the center of mass of ultracold atoms can be simulated using a properly chosen periodic sequence of magnetic pulses. Yet such a method is generally accompanied by micro-motion which hinders a precise…

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

Recent experimental breakthroughs, particularly for single-qubit and two-qubit gates exceeding the error correction threshold, highlight silicon spin qubits as leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. In the existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Ranran Cai , Fang-Ge Li , Bao-Chuan Wang , Hai-Ou Li , Gang Cao , Guo-Ping Guo

We present a new model for the study of spin-orbit coupling in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems and solve it exactly to find the spectral properties of such systems. We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Moroz , K. V. Samokhin , C. H. W. Barnes

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays an essential role in many exotic and interesting phenomena in condensed matter physics. In neutral-atom-based quantum simulations, synthetic SOC constitutes a key enabling element. The strength of SOC…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-03 Ling-Na Wu , Xin-Yu Luo , Zhi-Fang Xu , Masahito Ueda , Ruquan Wang , L. You

The influence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the physical properties of the 5d2 system Sr2MgOsO6 is probed via a combination of magnetometry, specific heat measurements, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and density functional…

We determine theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic excitation spectrum of itinerant multi-orbital systems, with specific application to iron-based superconductors. Our microscopic model includes a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-24 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

We study the electric-dipole transitions for a single electron in a double quantum dot located in a semiconductor nanowire. Enabled by spin-orbit coupling (SOC), electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR) for such an electron can be generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Zhi-Hai Liu , Rui Li , Xuedong Hu , J. Q. You

Quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously control the coupling strength and the screened Coulomb interactions where new exotic phases of matter can be explored. Here we report on the observation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-21 C. Brand , H. Pfnür , G. Landolt , S. Muff , J. H. Dil , Tanmoy Das , C. Tegenkamp

Anisotropy of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied for a single uncapped InAs self-assembled quantum dot (SAQD) holding just a few electrons. The SOI energy is evaluated from anti-crossing or SOI induced hybridization between the ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 S. Takahashi , R. S. Deacon , K. Yoshida , A. Oiwa , K. Shibata , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

We investigate spin-flip processes of Si quantum dots due to spin-orbit coupling. We utilize the spin-orbit coupling constants related to bulk and structure inversion asymmetry obtained numerically for two dimensional heterostructures. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Prada , R. H. Blick , R. Joynt

In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, quantum models for semiconductor materials are generally not exactly solvable. As a result, understanding of the strong spin-orbit coupling effects in these systems remains poor. Here we develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Rui Li , Lian-Ao Wu , Xuedong Hu , J. Q. You