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Based on the spin-orbit coupling recently implemented in a neutral cold-atom gas, we propose a scheme to realize spin-dependent scattering of cold atoms. In particular we consider a matter wave packet of cold-atom gas impinging upon a step…

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We present an effective field theory for a unified description of transport in normal and superconducting metals in the presence of generic spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The structure of the quantum kinetic theory in the diffusive regime is…

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We carried out a nested Schrieffer-Wolff transformation of an Anderson two-impurity Hamiltonian to study the spin-spin coupling between two dynamical quantum dots under the influence of rotating transverse magnetic field. As a result of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vahram L. Grigoryan , Jiang Xiao

We present a theory for the Kondo spin-1/2 effect in strongly correlated quantum dots. The theory is applicable at any temperature and voltage. It is based on a quadratic Keldysh effective action parameterized by a universal function. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Sergey Smirnov , Milena Grifoni

We show theoretically that conversion between spin and charge by spin-orbit interaction in metals occurs even in a non-local setup where magnetization and spin-orbit interaction are spatially separated if electron diffusion is taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Junji Fujimoto , Gen Tatara

Lack of inversion symmetry at a metallic surface can lead to an observable spin-orbit interaction. For certain metal surfaces, such as the Au(111) surface, the experimentally observed spin-orbit coupling results in spin rotation lengths on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jamie D. Walls , Eric J. Heller

We study the interplay between electron-electron interaction and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional electron gas. Using the random phase approximation we predict new screening properties of the electron gas which result in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev

We investigate the magnetoelectric (or inverse spin-galvanic) effect in the two dimensional electron gases with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling using an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for electron spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

The Hamiltonian describing 2D electron gas, in a spin-orbit active medium, can be cast into a consistent non-Abelian gauge field theory leading to a proper definition of the spin current. The generally advocated gauge symmetric version of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-25 Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina , Alexander López

The influence of the spin-orbit interactions on the energy spectrum of two-electron laterally coupled quantum dots is investigated. The effective Hamiltonian for a spin qubit pair proposed in F. Baruffa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 126401…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fabio Baruffa , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

There have been numerous studies on topological superconductivity in magnetic atomic chains deposited on s-wave superconductors. Most of these investigations have focused on spin-orbit interactions or helical spin orders. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Jinpeng Xiao , Qianglin Hu , Xiaobing Luo

We investigate abilities of various linear response based techniques for extracting parameters of antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions from the first-principles electronic structure calculations. For these purposes, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-02 I. V. Solovyev

We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Schrodinger particle with two internal components moving in a random potential. We show that this model can be implemented by the interaction of cold atoms with external lasers…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-07 M. J. Edmonds , J. Otterbach , R. G. Unanyan , M. Fleischhauer , M. Titov , P. Ohberg

Tunable magnetic interactions in high-mobility nonmagnetic semiconductor heterostructures are centrally important to spin-based quantum technologies. Conventionally, this requires incorporation of "magnetic impurities" within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Siegert , Arindam Ghosh , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie

Transition metal compounds with the $(t_{2g})^4$ electronic configuration are expected to be nonmagnetic atomic singlets both in the weakly interacting regime due to spin-orbit coupling, as well as in the Coulomb dominated regime with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-16 Christopher Svoboda , Mohit Randeria , Nandini Trivedi

We systematically study the efficiency of the intrinsic superconducting diode effect of several pair-density-wave states that can emerge in two-dimensional $d$-wave metallic altermagnets. To this end, we investigate several scenarios using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

We propose and analyze a microwave spin-photon interface based on a circular double quantum dot, inspired by recent experimental observations of anisotropic g-factors and ring states in InAs nanowires. We develop an effective theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ferdinand Omlor , Florinda Viñas Boström , Martin Leijnse

We develop a field theory formalism for the disordered interacting electron liquid in the dynamical Keldysh formulation. This formalism is an alternative to the previously used replica technique. In addition it naturally allows for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Kamenev , Anton Andreev

We propose purely electric manipulation of spin qubits by means of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) {\it without magnetic field or magnets} in a double-quantum dot. All the unitary transformations can be constructed by the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Atsuo Shitade , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the ground state configuration and spin dynamics of a quantum spin spiral dimer when a magnetic field is applied to one of its constituent spins. By adiabatic changing the magnetic field, it is possible to change the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 R. Wieser , R. Sánchez Galán