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The study of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of light is crucial to explore the light-matter interactions in sub-wavelength nanostructures with broken symmetries. In noncentrosymmetric photonic crystals, the SOC results in the splitting of the…

Hybridization effects play a crucial role in determining the electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic interfaces. To gain insight into these important interactions, we perform a first-principles study based on hybrid…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Jannis Krumland , Caterina Cocchi

The effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the electronic properties of monolayer (ML) PtSe$_2$ is dictated by the presence of the crystal inversion symmetry to exhibit spin polarized band without characteristic of spin splitting. Through…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-28 Moh. Adhib Ulil Absor , Iman Santosa , Harsojo , Kamsul Abraha , Fumiyuki Ishii , Mineo Saito

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has played an important role in many topological and correlated electron materials. In graphene-based systems, SOC induced by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) at proximity was shown to drive topological states…

Engineered spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in cold atom systems can aid in the study of novel synthetic materials and complex condensed matter phenomena. Despite great advances, alkali atom SOC systems are hindered by heating from spontaneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-08 S. Kolkowitz , S. L. Bromley , T. Bothwell , M. L. Wall , G. E. Marti , A. P. Koller , X. Zhang , A. M. Rey , J. Ye

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can provide essential tools to manipulate electron spins in two-dimensional materials like graphene, which is of great interest for both fundamental physics and spintronics application. In this paper, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Shimin Cao , Chuanwu Cao , Shibing Tian , Jian-Hao Chen

We analyze the origin of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in fluorinated graphene using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and a tight-binding model for the relevant orbitals. As it turns out, the dominant source of SOC is the atomic spin-orbit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 R. M. Guzmán-Arellano , A. D. Hernández-Nieves , C. A. Balseiro , Gonzalo Usaj

The so-called spin-orbit proximity effect experimentally realized in graphene (G) on several different heavy metal surfaces opens a new perspective to engineer the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for new generation spintronics devices. Here, via…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-10 Jagoda Slawinska , Jorge I. Cerdá

Manipulating spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is important for devices such as spin-orbit torque based memory and its understanding is neccessary to answer several fundamental open questions in triplet state superconductivity, topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Kalon Gopinadhan , A. Annadi , Younghyun Kim , Amar Srivastava , Brijesh Kumar , Jingsheng Chen , J. M. D. Coey , Ariando , T. Venkatesan

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…

Motivated by recent experimental development, we investigate spin-orbit coupled repulsive Fermi atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Using the density-matrix renormalization group method, we calculate momentum distribution function,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-09 Xiaofan Zhou , Kuang Zhang , Junjun Liang , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

We investigate the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in $\alpha$- and $\kappa$-phase BEDT-TTF and BEDT-TSF organic salts. Contrary to the assumption that SOC in organics is negligible due to light C, S, H atoms, we show the relevance of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Stephen M. Winter , Kira Riedl , Roser Valenti

Among the potential spin qubit candidates, yttrium phthalocyanine double-decker (YPc$_2$) features a diamagnetic metal ion core that stabilizes the molecular structure, while its magnetic properties arise primarily from an unpaired electron…

Metalated phthalocyanines (Pc's) are robust and versatile molecular complexes, whose properties can be tuned by changing their functional groups and central metal atom. The electronic structure of magnesium Pc (MgPc) - structurally and…

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a versatile platform for tailoring electronic properties through the integration of two-dimensional materials. Among these combinations, the interaction between bilayer graphene and transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 M. Masseroni , M. Gull , A. Panigrahi , N. Jacobsen , F. Fischer , C. Tong , J. D. Gerber , M. Niese , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. Levitov , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , H. Duprez

Materials with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have in recent years become a subject of intense research due to their potential applications in spintronics and quantum information technology. In particular, in systems which break inversion…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) drives interesting and non-trivial phenomena in solid state physics, ranging from topological to magnetic to transport properties. Thorough study of such phenomena often require effective models where SOC term is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

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

Electronic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is essential for various newly discovered phenomena in condensed-matter systems. In particular, one-dimensional topological heterostructures with SOC have been widely investigated in both theory and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-21 Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is essential in understanding the properties of 5d transition metal compounds, whose SOC value is large and almost comparable to other key parameters. Over the past few years, there have been numerous studies on…