scholarly journals Minimal ingredients for orbital-texture switches at Dirac points in strong spin–orbit coupled materials

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin A Waugh ◽  
Thomas Nummy ◽  
Stephen Parham ◽  
Qihang Liu ◽  
Xiuwen Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Strong Spin

scholarly journals Observation of chiral surface excitons in a topological insulator Bi2Se3

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 4006-4011 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-H. Kung ◽  
A. P. Goyal ◽  
D. L. Maslov ◽  
X. Wang ◽  
A. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarized Light ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Composite Particles ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Pl Emission ◽  
Strong Spin

The protected electron states at the boundaries or on the surfaces of topological insulators (TIs) have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental investigations. Such states are enforced by very strong spin–orbit interaction in solids composed of heavy elements. Here, we study the composite particles—chiral excitons—formed by the Coulomb attraction between electrons and holes residing on the surface of an archetypical 3D TI,Bi2Se3. Photoluminescence (PL) emission arising due to recombination of excitons in conventional semiconductors is usually unpolarized because of scattering by phonons and other degrees of freedom during exciton thermalization. On the contrary, we observe almost perfectly polarization-preserving PL emission from chiral excitons. We demonstrate that the chiral excitons can be optically oriented with circularly polarized light in a broad range of excitation energies, even when the latter deviate from the (apparent) optical band gap by hundreds of millielectronvolts, and that the orientation remains preserved even at room temperature. Based on the dependences of the PL spectra on the energy and polarization of incident photons, we propose that chiral excitons are made from massive holes and massless (Dirac) electrons, both with chiral spin textures enforced by strong spin–orbit coupling. A theoretical model based on this proposal describes quantitatively the experimental observations. The optical orientation of composite particles, the chiral excitons, emerges as a general result of strong spin–orbit coupling in a 2D electron system. Our findings can potentially expand applications of TIs in photonics and optoelectronics.

scholarly journals Quantum materials with strong spin-orbit coupling: challenges and opportunities for materials chemists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Browne ◽  
Aleksandra Krajewska ◽  
Alexandra Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metals ◽  
Quantum Effect ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Quantum Materials ◽  
Magnetic States ◽  
Strong Spin

Spin-orbit coupling is a quantum effect that can give rise to exotic electronic and magnetic states in the compounds of the 4d and 5d transition metals. Exploratory synthesis, chemical tuning...

scholarly journals Observation of quantum interference conductance fluctuations in metal rings with strong spin–orbit coupling

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (24) ◽  
pp. 242402
Author(s):  
R. Ramos ◽  
T. Makiuchi ◽  
T. Kikkawa ◽  
S. Daimon ◽  
K. Oyanagi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Interference ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Metal Rings ◽  
Conductance Fluctuations ◽  
Strong Spin

Transition from weak to strong spin-orbit scattering regime in diffusive InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wires

1995 ◽  
Vol 94 (9) ◽  
pp. 757-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshino K. Fukai ◽  
Hayato Nakano ◽  
Shunji Nakata ◽  
Seigo Tarucha ◽  
Kunihiro Arai
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Wires ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Strong Spin

scholarly journals Strong Spin-Orbit Contribution to the Hall Coefficient of Two-Dimensional Hole Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Liu ◽  
E. Marcellina ◽  
A. R. Hamilton ◽  
Dimitrie Culcer
Keyword(s):  
Hall Coefficient ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Strong Spin

scholarly journals A NEW UNIVERSALITY CLASS DESCRIBING THE INSULATING REGIME OF DISORDERED WIRES WITH STRONG SPIN-ORBIT SCATTERING

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 681-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. CASELLE
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Universality Class ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Transmission Eigenvalues ◽  
Sutherland Model ◽  
Strong Spin

We discuss the distribution of transmission eigenvalues in the strongly localized regime in the presence of both a magnetic field and spin-orbit scattering. We show that, under suitable conditions, this distribution can be described by a new universality class labelled not only by the index β but also by a new index η. This result is obtained by mapping the problem into that of a suitable Calogero-Sutherland model.

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