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Spin-orbit (SO) coupling -- the interaction between a quantum particle's spin and its momentum -- is ubiquitous in nature, from atoms to solids. In condensed matter systems, SO coupling is crucial for the spin-Hall effect and topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Y. -J. Lin , K. Jiménez-García , I. B. Spielman

Quantum droplets have intrigued much attention recently in view of their successful observations in the ultracold homonuclear atoms. In this work, we demonstrate a new mechanism for the formation of quantum droplet in heteronuclear atomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiaoling Cui

We present a theory of magnetotransport through a system of two coupled electronic orbitals, where the electron spin interacts with a (large) local magnetic moment via an exchange interaction. For the physical realization of such a set-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Klemens Mosshammer , Gerold Kiesslich , Tobias Brandes

Thermalization and scrambling are the subject of much recent study from the perspective of many-body quantum systems with locally bounded Hilbert spaces (`spin chains'), quantum field theory and holography. We tackle this problem in 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Curt von Keyserlingk , Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann , Shivaji Sondhi

The interplay between spin and orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to a variety of emergent phases in correlated 4d and 5d transition-metal systems. Strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) significantly alters Jahn-Teller (JT) physics, often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-28 A. S. Miñarro , G. Herranz

We propose to use the spin-orbit interaction as a means to control electron spins in quantum dots, enabling both single qubit and two qubit operations. Very fast single qubit operations may be achieved by temporarily displacing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Flindt , Anders S. Sorensen , Karsten Flensberg

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

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed in condensed matter systems. In recent years, new phases of matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Nicolas Reyren , Albert Fert , Christos Panagopoulos

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems for the case when normal electron collisions prevail over the other scattering processes and the "hydrodynamic flow" regime is realized. The hydrodynamic equations for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

We describe the treatment of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in interacting many-fermion systems within the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo framework, and present a set of illustrative results. These include numerically exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-10 Peter Rosenberg , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We consider spin-vorticity coupling - the generation of spin polarization by vorticity - in viscous two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling. We first derive hydrodynamic equations for spin and momentum densities in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Ruben J. Doornenbal , Marco Polini , R. A. Duine

In atomic physics, the Hund rule says that the largest spin and orbital state is realized due to the interplay of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and the Coulomb interactions. Here, we show that in ferromagnetic solids the effective SOC and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-03 Ze Liu , Jing-Yang You , Bo Gu , Sadamichi Maekawa , Gang Su

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) plays a crucial role in the next-generation spin-orbitronics. Enhancing its efficiency is both fundamentally and practically interesting and remains a challenge to date. Recently, orbital counterparts…

A general form of the Hamiltonian for electrons confined to a curved one-dimensional (1D) channel with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in momentum is rederived and is applied to a U-shaped channel. Discretizing the derived continuous 1D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Ming-Hao Liu , Jhih-Sheng Wu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

The focus is on understanding the quantum thermodynamics of strongly coupled non-Markovian quantum systems. To this end, a non-trivial, non-Markovian model of a central spin surrounded by a spin bath is taken up, and its exact evolution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Devvrat Tiwari , Baibhab Bose , Subhashish Banerjee

In their recent paper, Kholmetskii, Missevitch, and Yarman "reanalyze the usual classical derivation of spin-orbit coupling in hydrogenlike atoms" and find a result "in qualitative agreement with the solution of the Dirac-Coulomb equation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 David C. Lush

We derive rigorously the relativistic angular momentum conservation equation by means of quantum electrodynamics. The novel nonrelativistic spin current and torque in the spin-orbit coupling system, up to the order of $1/c^{4}$, are exactly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Yong-Ping Fu , Dong Wang , F. J. Huang , Y. D. Li , W. M. Liu

We study a two-dimensional (2D) electron system with a linear spectrum in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (RSO) coupling in the hydrodynamic regime. We derive a semiclassical Boltzmann equation with a collision integral due to Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Edvin G. Idrisov , Eddwi H. Hasdeo , Byjesh N. Radhakrishnan , Thomas L. Schmidt

We study theoretically and numerically the coupling and rotational hydrodynamic interactions between spherical particles near a planar elastic membrane that exhibits resistance towards shear and bending. Using a combination of the multipole…

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) $\mathbf d$-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Chau Dao , Eric Kleinherbers , Bjørnulf Brekke , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak