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Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a fundamental component for electrically driven spin qubits and hybrid superconducting-semiconducting systems. In particular, Rashba SOI (RSOI) is a key mechanism enabling all-electrical spin manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Patrick Del Vecchio , Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss , Oussama Moutanabbir

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

The band structure of two-dimensional artificial superlattices in the presence of (Rashba-type) spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is presented. The position and shape of the energy bands in these spintronic crystals depend on the geometry as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

Acoustic meta-atoms serve as the building blocks of metamaterials, with linear properties designed to achieve functions such as beam steering, cloaking and focusing. They have also been used to shape the characteristics of incident acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Sebastian Oberst , Yan Kei Chiang , David A. Powell

Recently, we witnessed a tremendous effort to conquer the realm of acoustics as a possible playground to test with sound waves topologically protected wave propagation. Acoustics differ substantially from photonic and electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xiujuan Zhang , Meng Xiao , Ying Cheng , Ming-Hui Lu , Johan Christensen

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

We discuss the electron spin resonance in two-dimensional electron gas at zero external magnetic field. This spin-resonance is due to the transitions between the electron states, which are split by the spin-orbit (SO) interaction, and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed in condensed matter systems. In recent years, new phases of matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Nicolas Reyren , Albert Fert , Christos Panagopoulos

Routing and guiding acoustic waves around sharp corners without backscattering losses is of great interest in the acoustics community. Sonic crystals have been primarily utilized to design backscattering-immune waveguides. While…

Waveguiding in general and acoustic waveguiding in particular are possible at the condition of having a transverse "discontinuity" or modulation of the refractive index. We propose here a radically different approach that relies on imposing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Mohamed Farhat , Pai-Yen Chen , Ying Wu

We investigate the spin-orbit coupling of light in three-dimensional cylindrical and tube-like whispering gallery mode resonators. We show that its origin is the transverse confinement of light in the resonator walls, even in the absence of…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jakob Kreismann , Martina Hentschel

Spin-orbit interactions (SOI) are a set of sub-wavelength optical phenomenon in which spin and spatial degrees of freedom of light are intrinsically coupled. One of the unique example of SOI, spin-Hall effect of light (SHEL) has been an…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Diptabrata Paul , Deepak K. Sharma , G. V. Pavan Kumar

In lossless acoustic systems, mode transitions are always time-reversible, consistent with Lorentz reciprocity, giving rise to symmetric sound manipulation in space-time. To overcome this fundamental limitation and break space-time…

Spin orbit interaction (SOI) due to tight focusing of light in optical tweezers has led to exciting and exotic avenues towards inducing rotation in microscopic particles. However, instances where the back action of the particles influences…

We predict a set of unusual quantum acoustic phenomena resulting from sound-matter interactions in a fully tunable solid-state platform, in which an array of solid-state spins in diamond are coupled to quantized acoustic waves in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Xing-Liang Dong , Peng-Bo Li , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

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 report on acoustically driven spin resonances in atomic-scale centers in silicon carbide at room temperature. Specifically, we use a surface acoustic wave cavity to selectively address spin transitions with magnetic quantum number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 A. Hernández-Mínguez , A. V. Poshakinskiy , M. Hollenbach , P. V. Santos , G. V. Astakhov

The twist phase of random light represents a nontrivial two-point phase, endowing the field with orbital angular momentum. Although the mutual transition of the spin and orbit angular momenta of coherent light has been revealed, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Benli Li , Yahong Chen , Weimin Deng , Tongbiao Wang , Lipeng Wan , Tianbao Yu

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum were generated experimentally [{\it Optica} {\bf 6}, 1547 (2019); {\it Nat. Photon.} {\bf 14}, 350 (2020)]. However, an accurate…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Angular momentum is an important physical property that plays a key role in light-matter interactions such as spin-orbit interaction. Here, we investigate theoretically and experimentally the spin-orbit interaction between a circularly…