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Simultaneous manifestation of both forward and inverse photonic Spin Hall effect in geometrically tailored anisotropic waveguided plasmonic crystal system is observed through the excitation of the leaky hybridized quasiguided modes. The…

We show how a complex Snell's law can be used to describe the refraction of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at an interface between two metals, validating its predictions with 3-D electrodynamics simulations. Refraction gives rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Jonathan J. Foley , Jeffrey M. McMahon , George C. Schatz , Stephen K. Gray

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which is inherent to a Dirac particle that moves under the influence of electromagnetic fields, manifests itself in a variety of physical systems including non-relativistic ones. For instance, it plays an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Tomohiro Hata , Eiji Nakano , Kei Iida , Hiroyuki Tajima , Junichi Takahashi

Electrically generated spin accumulation due to the spin Hall effect is imaged in n-GaAs channels using Kerr rotation microscopy, focusing on its spatial distribution and time-averaged behavior in a magnetic field. Spatially-resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-09 N. P. Stern , D. W. Steuerman , S. Mack , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The spin texture of the metallic two-dimensional electron system (root3 x root3)-Au/Ge(111) is revealed by fully three-dimensional spin-resolved photoemission, as well as by density functional calculations. The large hexagonal Fermi…

Following to the recently published approach [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073901 (2017); New J. Phys., 123014 (2017)], we refine and accomplish the general scheme for the unified description of the momentum and angular momentum in complex media.…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-18 Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev , Konstantin Y. Bliokh

We present a method to create spin-polarized beams of ballistic electrons in a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Scattering of a spin-unpolarized injected beam from a lithographic barrier leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Chen , J. J. Heremans , J. A. Peters , J. P. Dulka , A. O. Govorov , N. Goel , S. J. Chung , M. B. Santos

Spin-orbit (SO) interactions in two dimensional systems split the Fermi surface, and allow for the spatial separation of spin-states via transverse magnetic focusing (TMF). In this work, we consider the case of combined Rashba and Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Samuel S. R. Bladwell , Oleg P. Sushkov

A remarkably long-lived spin plasmon may exist in two-dimensional electron liquids with imbalanced spin up and spin down population. Predictions for this interesting mode by Agarwal et al. [Phys. Rev. B 90, 155409 (2014)] are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Dominik Kreil , Raphael Hobbiger , Jürgen T. Drachta , Helga M. Böhm

We study the electronic structure of the Re(0001) surface by means of ab-initio techniques based on the Fully Relativistic (FR) Density Functional Theory (DFT) and the Projector Augmented-Wave (PAW) method. We identify the main surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-01 Andrea Urru , Andrea Dal Corso

The movement of the electrons under the simultaneous influence of a scalar periodic potential and of a uniform transversal magnetic field is described by the well-known second order discrete Harper equation. This equation originates from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-19 O. Borchin , E. Papp

The present paper is devoted to the theoretical study of the spectrum of low-frequency electronic density oscillations running along the boundary of two contacting two-dimensional electronic systems in the perpendicular magnetic field. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. I. Mogilyuk

The linear birefringence of uniaxial crystal plates is known since the 17th century, and it is widely used in numerous optical setups and devices. Here we demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, a fine lateral circular…

Lack of inversion symmetry in metals breaks SU(2) symmetry which results in spin-splitting of the electronic states at the Fermi level due to various types of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) such as Dresselhaus, Rashba, or Ising (also called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Mojdeh Saleh , Saurabh Maiti

Interfacial spin-flip scattering plays an important role in magnetoelectronic devices. Spin loss at metallic interfaces is usually quantified by matching the magnetoresistance data for multilayers to the Valet-Fert model, while treating…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 K. D. Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde

It is recently noted that in certain centrosymmetric compounds, spin-orbit interaction couples each local sector that lacks inversion symmetry and thus leads to visible spin polarization effects in the real space, dubbed as 'hidden spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Hongyi Sun , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

We study the electronic and spin structures of the giant Rashba-split surface states of the Bi/Si(111)-($\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$)R30 trimer phase by means of spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (spin-ARPES). Supported by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-04 M. H. Berntsen , O. Götberg , O. Tjernberg

We study a model of a $p$-$n$ junction in single-layer graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field and spin-orbit interactions. By solving the relevant quantum-mechanical problem for a potential step, we determine the exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Dario Bercioux , Alessandro De Martino

The transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons within unpolarized jets originates from the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation function $D_{1T}^\perp (z, p_T, \mu^2)$. In the vacuum environment, the QCD evolution of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-12 Xin-yu Qin , Yu-Kun Song , Shu-yi Wei

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in conjunction with broken inversion symmetry acts as a key ingredient for several intriguing quantum phenomena viz. persistent spin textures, topological surface states and Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) effects. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-28 Preeti Bhumla , Deepika Gill , Sajjan Sheoran , Saswata Bhattacharya