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The propagation of matter waves in curved geometry is relevant for electrons in nano-wires, solid-state physics structures and atomtronics. Curvature effects are usually addressed within the adiabatic limit and treated via an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 François Impens , Romain Duboscq , David Guéry-Odelin

By means of a multiband effective mass Hamiltonian, a theoretical characterization of the effect of the geometrical features of the confinement profile --in particular, a longitudinal groove-- on the subbands dispersion and spin-related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Jorge A. Budagosky

The Rashba effect, a spin splitting in electronic band structure, attracts much attention for the potential applications in spintronics with no requirement of external magnetic field. Realizing one-dimensional (1D) Rashba system is a big…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Zhenzhen Qin , Guangzhao Qin , Bin Shao , Xu Zuo

The Rashba interaction induced when inversion symmetry is broken in solids is a key interaction connecting spin and charge for realizing novel magnetoelectric cross-correlation effects. Here, we theoretically explore the optical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Junya Shibata , Akihito Takeuchi , Hiroshi Kohno , Gen Tatara

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

We investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Marta García-Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Alexander López , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

Graphene, as a material with a small intrinsic spin-orbit interaction of approximately 1 $\mu$eV, has a limited application in spintronics. Adsorption of graphene on the surfaces of heavy-metals was proposed to induce the strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-27 Elena Voloshina , Yuriy Dedkov

We concentrate on the geometric potential in the invariant perturbation theory of quantum adiabatic process which is presented in our recent papers. It is found out to be related to the geodesic curvature of the spherical curve in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Mei-sheng Zhao , Jian-da Wu , Jian-lan Chen , Yong-de Zhang

To understand the recently observed mysterious non-adiabatic energy transfer for hyperthermal H atom scattering from a semiconductor surface, Ge(111)c(2*8), we present a mixed quantum-classical non-adiabatic molecular dynamics model based…

Nonreciprocal transport is generally observed in superconductors in which time reversal and inversion symmetries are simultaneously broken. This effect, which may become one of the backbones for future superconducting electronics, arises…

This article deals with non-adiabatic processes (i.e. processes excluded by the adiabatic theorem) from the geometrical (group-theoretical) point of view. An approximated formula for the probabilities of the non-adiabatic transitions is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. S. Marinov , E. Strahov

Efficient control schemes that enable fast, high-fidelity operations are essential for any practical quantum computation. However, current optimization protocols are intractable due to stringent requirements imposed by the microscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Christian Ventura Meinersen , Stefano Bosco , Maximilian Rimbach-Russ

The ability to control spins in semiconductors is important in a variety of fields including spintronics and quantum information processing. Due to the potentially fast dephasing times of spins in the solid state [1-3], spin control…

Rashba spin splitting (RSS) in biased semiconductor quantum wells is investigated theoretically based on the eight-band envelope function model. We find that at large wave vectors, RSS is both nonmonotonic and anisotropic as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen Yang , Kai Chang

We explore the non-reciprocal intracell hopping mediated non-Hermitian topological phases of an extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model hosting second-nearest-neighbour hopping. We microscopically analyze the phase boundaries using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Dharana Joshi , Tanay Nag

We introduce a geometric framework for efficient few-parameter pulse optimization in multi-level quantum systems, enabling high-fidelity state transfer beyond the adiabatic limit. Our method interpolates smoothly between adiabatic and…

We derive an intrinsic contribution to the non-adiabatic spin torque for non-uniform magnetic textures. It differs from previously considered contributions in several ways and can be the dominant contribution in some models. It does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

We study the influence of nonuniform magnetic fields on the magneto conductance of mesoscopic microstructures. We show that the coupling of the electron spin to the inhomogenous field gives rise to effects of the Berry phase on ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

We illuminate the superconducting phases in [001]-grown-noncentrosymmetric quantum wells with an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction. Within the random phase approximation, we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-20 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Alireza Akbari