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Spin polarization induced by an external electric field in graphene is considered theoretically in the linear response regime. The graphene is assumed to be deposited on a substrate which leads to the spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim

Nonlinear light-matter interactions are typically enhanced by increasing the local field and its interaction time with matter. Conventional methods to achieve these goals are based on resonances or slow-light effects. However, these methods…

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

In this article, the modified Kane-Mele Hamiltonian is derived for graphene with wedge disclination and spin orbit couplings (intrinsic and Rashba). The wedge disclination changes the flat lattice into the conical lattice and hence modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tarun Choudhari , Nivedita Deo

We study high harmonic generation in altermagnetic metals with and without spin-orbit coupling. The altermagnetism manifests itself in the magnetic field dependence of the low harmonics associated with intra-band dynamics. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Philipp Werner , Markus Lysne , Yuta Murakami

A continuum model for the effective spin orbit interaction in graphene is derived from a tight-binding model which includes the $\pi$ and $\sigma$ bands. We analyze the combined effects of the intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling, curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Huertas-Hernando , F. Guinea , A. Brataas

The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose an enhancement of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Santiago Giménez de Castro , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

We calculate the efficiency of infrared optical spin injection in single-layer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and for in-plane magnetic field. The injection rate in the photon frequency range corresponding to the Rashba splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnaś

We present a scheme for generating a synthetic magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling via Raman coupling in highly magnetic lanthanide atoms such as dysprosium. Employing these atoms offer several advantages for realizing strongly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Xiaoling Cui , Biao Lian , Tin-Lun Ho , Benjamin L. Lev , Hui Zhai

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

Pseudo-magnetic field becomes an experimental reality after the observation of zero-field Landau level-like quantization in strained graphene, but it is not expected that the time-reversal symmetric pseudo-magnetic fields will have any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Lin He

We study theoretically the optics in undoped direct gap semiconductors which are strongly driven in the THz regime. We calculate the optical sideband generation due to nonlinear mixing of the THz field and the near infrared probe. Starting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristinn Johnsen

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 E. N. Osika , B. Szafran

We perform a comparative study of the spin relaxation by spin-orbit coupling induced from adatoms (hydrogen and fluorine) in graphene. Two methods are applied, giving consistent results: a full quantum transport simulation of a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jan Bundesmann , Denis Kochan , Fedor Tkatschenko , Jaroslav Fabian , Klaus Richter

The interactions between light and matter are strongly enhanced when atoms are placed in high-finesse quantum cavities, offering tantalizing opportunities for generating exotic new quantum phases. In this work we show that both spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-29 Farokh Mivehvar , David L. Feder

We propose a mechanism for magnon-plasmon coupling and hybridization in ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) systems. The electric field associated with plasmon oscillations creates a non-equilibrium spin density via the inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Anna Dyrdał , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Arne Brataas , Józef Barnaś

We investigate the spin relaxation and decoherence in a single-electron graphene quantum dot with Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions. We derive an effective spin-phonon Hamiltonian via the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Marco O. Hachiya , Guido Burkard , J. Carlos Egues

The study of spin-related phenomena in materials requires knowledge on the precise form of effective spin-orbit coupling of conducting carriers in the solid-states systems. We demonstrate theoretically that curvature induced by corrugations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Jae-Seung Jeong , Jeongkyu Shin , Hyun-Woo Lee

The electronic band structure of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and transverse electric field is investigated from first principles using the linearized augmented plane-wave method. The spin-orbit coupling opens a gap at…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Gmitra , S. Konschuh , C. Ertler , C. Ambrosch-Draxl , J. Fabian