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We discuss the motion of spin in inertial and gravitational fields. The coupling of spin with rotation and the gravitomagnetic field has already been extensively studied; therefore, we focus here on the inertial and gravitational spin-orbit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-25 Bahram Mashhoon , Yuri N. Obukhov

The origin of thermal and quantum entanglement in a class of three-dimensional spin models, at low momenta, is traced to purely topological reasons. The establishment of the result is facilitated by the gauge principle which, when used in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 V. V. Sreedhar

The control of magnetization by electric current is a rapidly developing area motivated by a strong synergy between breakthrough basic research discoveries and industrial applications in the fields of magnetic recording, magnetic field…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Yucai Li , Kevin William Edmonds , Xionghua Liu , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

Topological boundary modes, a hallmark of quantum topological phases, remarkably occur in classical mechanical systems through an interesting correspondence with the quantum case. Here, we explore the Maxwell lattice frustrated Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Hong-Hao Song , Pengwei Zhao , Gang v. Chen

Spin current and spin torque generation through the spin-orbit interactions in solids, of bulk or interfacial origin, is at the heart of spintronics research. The realization of spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven magnetic dynamics and switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Minh-Hai Nguyen , Chi-Feng Pai

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) refers to the excitation of magnetization dynamics via spin-orbit coupling under the application of a charged current. In this work, we introduce a simple and intuitive description of the SOT in terms of spin force.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 Cong Son Ho , Seng Ghee Tan , Shun-Qing Shen , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The physics involved in the fundamental conservation equations of the spin and orbital angular momenta leads to new laws and phenomena that I disclose. To this end, I analyse the scattering of an electromagnetic wavefield by the canonical…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-04 Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

We investigate the interplay between topological effects and Mott physics in two dimensions on a graphene-like lattice, via a tight-binding model containing an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling on the next-nearest-neighbour links and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Tianhan Liu , Benoît Douçot , Karyn Le Hur

Topologically nontrivial states, the solitons, emerge as elementary excitations in 1D electronic systems. In a quasi 1D material the topological requirements originate the spin- or charge- roton like excitations with charge- or spin- kinks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Brazovskii

We show that the torus knot topology is inherent in electromagnetic and gravitational radiation by constructing spin-$N$ fields based on this topology from the elementary states of twistor theory. The twistor functions corresponding to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-21 Amy Thompson , Joe Swearngin , Dirk Bouwmeester

The origin of the Thomas factor 1/2 in the spin-orbit hamiltonian can be understood by considering the case of a classical electron moving in crossed electric and magnetic fields chosen such that the electric Coulomb force is balanced by…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-10 Herbert Kroemer

Interaction between local magnetization and conduction electrons is responsible for a variety of phenomena in magnetic materials. We have shown that the spin-dependent motive force induced by magnetization dynamics in a conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 I. I. Lyapilin

Many years ago Friedman and Sorkin [1] established the existence of certain topological solitonic excitations in quantum gravity called (topological) geons. Geons can have quantum numbers like charge and can be tensorial or spinorial having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Alexanian , A. P. Balachandran

Vortex-antivortex pairs are localized excitations and have been found to be spontaneously created in magnetic elements. In the case that the vortex and the antivortex have opposite polarities the pair has a nonzero topological charge, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Komineas

The effects of interplay between spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting on weak localisation and universal conductance fluctuations in lateral semiconductor quantum dots are analysed: All possible symmetry classes of corresponding random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We discuss the theoretical basis for the search of the possible experimental manifestations of the torsion field at low energies. First, the quantum field theory in an external gravitational field with torsion is reviewed. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya L. Shapiro

We calculate the optical force and torque applied to an electric dipole by a spinning light field. We find that the dissipative part of the force depends on the orbital energy flow of the field only, because the latter is related to the…

Radical revision on the conventional spacetime picture, illusion or emergent phenomenon, has been the focus of the speculations on the unified frameworks for fundamental interactions in nature. Compared to strong experimental credence to…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 S C Tiwari