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We study the impact of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) on the stability of charge-density wave (CDW) in systems with large electron-phonon coupling (EPC). Here, the EPC is considered in the framework of the Holstein model at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 Rodrigo A. Fontenele , Sebastião dos Anjos Sousa-Júnior , Tarik P. Cysne , Natanael C. Costa

We study spin-orbital coupling effect on the Josephson current through a superconductor (SC) heterojunction, consisting of two s-wave superconductors and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them. The Rashba-type (RSOC)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Yang , Y. H. Yang , J. Wang , K. S. Chan

In this study, we propose an alternative route to achieving topological superconductivity (TSC). Our approach applies to a new class of correlated noncentrosymmetric materials that host two spin-split Fermi surfaces with identical spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-28 Lichuan Wang , Ran Wang , Xinliang Huang , Xianxin Wu , Ning Hao

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

Spin-momentum locking is essential to the spin-split Fermi surfaces of inversion-symmetry broken materials, which are caused by either Rashba-type or Zeeman-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC). While the effect of Zeeman-type SOC on…

Spin-orbit coupling is an important ingredient in many recently discovered phenomena such as the spin-Hall effect and topological insulators. Of particular interest is topological superconductivity, with its potential application in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-28 Jay D. Sau , Rajdeep Sensarma , Stephen Powell , I. B. Spielman , S. Das Sarma

The two-dimensional Rashba-Hubbard model is investigated in order to clarify the electron correlation effects in non-centrosymmetric metals. The renormalization effect on Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) is calculated on the basis of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Daisuke Maruyama , Youichi Yanase

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key interaction in spintronics, allowing an electrical control of spin or magnetization and, vice versa, a magnetic control of electrical current. However, recent advances have revealed much broader…

The influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on superconducting correlations in thin-film superconductor/antiferromagnet (S/AF) structures with compensated interfaces is studied. A unique effect of anisotropic enhancement of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-17 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. A. Golubov

The control of the spin degree of freedom is at the heart of spintronics, which can potentially be achieved by spin-orbit coupling or band topological effects. In this paper, we explore another potential controlled mechanism under debate:…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-12 J. A. Sánchez-Monroy , Carlos Mera Acosta

We studied how the electron-electron (e-e) interaction enhances the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and opens the possibility of generating a spin-polarized output current from an unpolarized electric current without any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 R. Farghadan , A. Sehat

We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

We demonstrate that the interplay between structural geometry and Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates nontrivial topological phases in honeycomb nanoribbon heterostructures. We consider an armchair nanoribbon in which a Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Hao-Ru Wu , Jhih-Shih You , Yiing-Rei Chen , Hong-Yi Chen

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a well-known mechanism for the spin-charge interconversion via the inverse and direct spin galvanic effects. The lack of a full inversion symmetry allows the coupling of the charge current and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Alessandro Veneri , Francesco Quintavalle , Thierry Valet , Roberto Raimondi

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling is the crucial parameter to drive topological insulating phases in electronic band models. In particular, the generic emergence of SO coupling involves the Rashba term which fully breaks the SU(2) spin symmetry. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Manuel Laubach , Johannes Reuther , Ronny Thomale , Stephan Rachel

The electronic band structure of monolayer phosphorene is thoroughly studied by considering the presence of spin-orbit interaction. We employ a multiorbital Slater-Koster tight-binding approach to derive effective k.p-type Hamiltonians that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Mayra Peralta , Dennis A. Freire , Rafael González-Hernández , Francisco Mireles

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emerging at the interfaces of superconducting magnetic tunnel junctions is at the heart of multiple unprecedented physical phenomena, covering triplet proximity effects induced by unconventional (spin-flip) Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

In this work, we investigate the combined effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and non-Hermiticity on topological phase transitions in spinful p-wave Kitaev chains. While previous studies have separately examined non-Hermitian (NH)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-11 Shahroze Shahab , Aditi Chakrabarty , Sanjoy Datta

Topological order can be found in a wide range of physical systems, from crystalline solids, photonic meta-materials and even atmospheric waves to optomechanic, acoustic and atomic systems. Topological systems are a robust foundation for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-04 A. Valdés-Curiel , D. Trypogeorgos , Q. -Y. Liang , R. P. Anderson , I. B. Spielman

We propose a theoretical framework in which a one-dimensional (1D) tight-binding model incorporating unconventional magnetic order together with Rashba and Ising spin-orbit couplings are considered to realize two key phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Amartya Pal , Debashish Mondal , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha