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We employ a method involving coherent periodic modulation of Raman laser intensity to induce resonance transitions between energy levels of a spin-orbit coupled atom in a symmetric double-well trap. By integrating photon-assisted tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Changwei Fan , Xiaoxiao Hu , Xin Yan , Hongzheng Wu , Zhiqiang Li , Jinpeng Xiao , Yajiang Chen , Xiaobing Luo

Despite a clear demonstration of bistability in spin-crossover (SCO) materials, the absence of long-range magnetic order and poor electrical conductivity limit their prospect in spintronic and nanoelectronic applications. Intending to…

Intensive studies of the interplay between spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electronic correlations in transition metal compounds have recently been undertaken. In particular, $j_{\rm eff}$ = 1/2 bands on a honeycomb lattice provide a pathway…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Heung-Sik Kim , V. Vijay Shankar , Andrei Catuneanu , Hae-Young Kee

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

We present a systematic investigation of molecule-metal interactions for transition-metal phthalocyanines (TMPc, with TM = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) adsorbed on Ag(100). Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and density functional theory provide insight…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-20 A. Mugarza , R. Robles , C. Krull , R. Korytar , N. Lorente , P. Gambardella

Inducing and controlling spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene is key to create topological states of matter, and for the realization of spintronic devices. Placing graphene onto a transition metal dichalcogenide is currently the most…

We investigate the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects on the electronic structures and semi-classic transport coefficients of half-Heusler $\mathrm{ANiB}$ (A=Ti, Hf, Sc, Y; B=Sn, Sb, Bi) by using generalized gradient approximation (GGA).…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-25 San-Dong Guo

Inducing or enhancing superconductivity in topological materials is an important route toward topological superconductivity. Reducing the thickness of transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g. WTe2 and MoTe2) has provided an important pathway…

Strong electron-electron interaction can induce Mott insulating state, which is believed to host unusual correlated phenomena such as quantum spin liquid when quantum fluctuation dominates and unconventional superconductivity through…

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In most existing theories for iron-based superconductors, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been assumed insignificant. Even though recent experiments have revealed an influence of SOC on the electronic band structure, whether SOC fundamentally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-23 Mingwei Ma , Philippe Bourges , Yvan Sidis , Yang Xu , Shiyan Li , Biaoyan Hu , Jiarui Li , Fa Wang , Yuan Li

Despite its extremely weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), graphene has been shown to acquire considerable SOC by proximity coupling with exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Here we demonstrate strong induced Rashba SOC…

Interatomic hopping mediated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) entangles spin, orbital and sublattice degrees of freedom of electrons, leading to the emergence of intriguing phenomena such as novel topological insulators and exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Masaki Kato , Masao Ogata

We propose the use of optical lattice clocks operated with fermionic alkaline-earth-atoms to study spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in interacting many-body systems. The SOC emerges naturally during the clock interrogation when atoms are allowed…

We quantify the accuracy of different non-self-consistent and self-consistent spin-orbit coupling (SOC) treatments in Kohn-Sham and hybrid density-functional theory by providing a band structure benchmark set for the valence and low-lying…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 William P. Huhn , Volker Blum

We demonstrate the emergence of the non-Abelian geometric potentials and thus the three-dimensional (3D) spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold atoms without using the laser beams. This is achieved by subjecting an atom to a periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-12 Povilas Račkauskas , Viktor Novičenko , Han Pu , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Interfaces formed between monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and (metallo)phthalocyanine molecules are promising in energy applications and provide a platform for studying mixed-dimensional molecule-semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-13 Olugbenga Adeniran , Zhen-Fei Liu

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

Graphene - transition metal phthalocyanine (G-MPc) hybrid systems constitute promising platforms for densely-packed single-molecule magnets (SMMs). Here, we selected iron(II) phthalocyanine (FePc) and investigated its interaction with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Marcin Zemła , Kamil Czelej , Jacek Majewski

Well-ordered organic molecular layers on oxide surfaces are key for organic electronics. Using a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) we probe the structures of copper…