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The electronic structures and thermoelectric properties of semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers $\mathrm{MX_2}$ (M=Zr, Hf, Mo, W and Pt; X=S, Se and Te) are investigated by combining first-principles and Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 San-Dong Guo , Jian-Li Wang

We exploit the variational and Hamiltonian structures of quantum hydrodynamics with spin to unfold the correlation and torque mechanisms accompanying spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in electronic motion. Using Hamilton's action principle for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Cesare Tronci

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel I. Rashba

Understanding and controlling the transport properties of interacting fermions is a key forefront in quantum physics across a variety of experimental platforms. Motivated by recent experiments in 1D electron channels written on the…

An unconventional superconductor is distinguished with two types of gap functions: unitary and non-unitary. This core subject has been concentrated on purely spin-triplet or singlet-triplet mixed superconductors. However, the generalization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Meng Zeng , Dong-Hui Xu , Zi-Ming Wang , Lun-Hui Hu

Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a complete synergy between superconducting and magnetic orders…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Jacob Linder , Jason W. A. Robinson

Due to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) an electric current flowing in a normal metal or semiconductor can induce a bulk magnetic moment. This effect is known as the Edelstein (EE) or magneto-electric effect. Similarly, in a bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 François Konschelle , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastián Bergeret

In this review, we summarize the foundations underlying a variety of phenomena in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures, with a focus on recent advances in several key areas. These include: (i) the fundamental understanding of…

One of the most fundamental properties of electromagnetism and special relativity is the coupling between the spin of an electron and its orbital motion. This is at the origin of the fine structure in atoms, the spin Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 V. G. Sala , D. D. Solnyshkov , I. Carusotto , T. Jacqmin , A. Lemaître , H. Terças , A. Nalitov , M. Abbarchi , E. Galopin , I. Sagnes , J. Bloch , G. Malpuech , A. Amo

We investigate the effect of spin orbit coupling on proximity induced superconductivity in a normal metal attached to a superconductor. Specifically, we consider a heterostructure where the presence of interfaces gives rise to a Rashba spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-30 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

We investigate the superfluidity of attractive Fermi gas in a square optical lattice with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We show that the system displays a variety of new filling-dependent features. At half filling, a quantum phase transition…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Q. Sun , G. -B. Zhu , W. -M. Liu , A. -C. Ji

The spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) of hydrogenated and fluorinated graphenes are calculated from the first principles method. It is found that the SOC-induced band splittings near their Fermi energies can be significantly enhanced to the order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 Jian Zhou , Qifeng Liang , Jinming Dong

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

In this work, we performed extensive first-principles simulations of high-harmonic generation in the topological Diract semimetal Na3Bi using a time-dependent density functional theory framework, focusing on the effect of spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-18 Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Florian G. Eich , Angel Rubio

The superconducting order parameter of strontium ruthenate is the center of a lasting puzzle calling for theoretical studies that include the seldom-considered effects of spin-orbit coupling and the frequency-dependence of the order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-01 Olivier Gingras , Nikita Allaglo , Reza Nourafkan , Michel Côté , André-Marie S. Tremblay

The cooperative effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Coulomb attraction in stabilizing topological spin-triplet excitonic condensates (ECs) in two-dimensional electron-hole systems in external magnetic field is investigated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Quoc-Huy Ninh , Huu-Nha Nguyen , Van-Nham Phan

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays an important role in determining the structural and electronic properties of recently proposed two-dimensional planar pentagonal materials. In this work, density functional theory calculations are employed to…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in noncentrosymmetric materials is the source of incommensurate magnetic structures. In semiconductors, it drives the Rashba spin splitting and spin momentum locking, while in magnetic insulators based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-08 Ryo Makuta , Chisa Hotta

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…

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductors is strongly influenced by structural asymmetries, as prominently observed in bulk crystal structures that lack inversion symmetry. Here, we study an additional effect on the SOC: the asymmetry…