scholarly journals Strong spin-orbit coupling and Dirac nodal lines in the three-dimensional electronic structure of metallic rutile IrO2

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Xu ◽  
J. Jiang ◽  
W. J. Shi ◽  
Vicky Süß ◽  
C. Shekhar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Nodal Lines ◽  
Strong Spin

scholarly journals Emergence of topological nodal lines and type-II Weyl nodes in the strong spin-orbit coupling system InNbX2 ( X=S ,Se)

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongping Du ◽  
Xiangyan Bo ◽  
Di Wang ◽  
Er-jun Kan ◽  
Chun-Gang Duan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Nodal Lines ◽  
Coupling System ◽  
Strong Spin

scholarly journals Irreversible Thermodynamics at Surfaces: Inverse Edelstein Effect for Topological Insulator

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne M. Saslow
Keyword(s):  
Topological Insulator ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Irreversible Thermodynamics ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Accumulation ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Charge Current ◽  
Flux Incident ◽  
Strong Spin

We employ Onsager’s irreversible thermodynamics (IrTh) to study the Inverse Edelstein effect (IEE) for a non-magnetic material (NM) adjacent to a topological insulator (TI) with a strong spin-orbit interaction. The TI surface state region is treated as quasi two-dimensional (2d). For the IEE, the source is a 3d spin flux incident from the NM that converts, at the NM/TI interface, to a quasi-2d charge current in the TI. For the Edelstein Effect (EE), the source is a quasi-2d charge flux incident from the TI that converts, at the interface, to a three-dimensional (3d) spin flux in the NM. For strong spin-orbit coupling, as considered here, when the 3d spin flux crosses to the 2d TI, the quasi-2d charge current is produced along with a quasi-2d spin accumulation. (For weak spin-orbit coupling, production of charge current and of spin accumulation are distinct processes.) We compute the associated rates of heating.

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 Heisenberg and anisotropic exchange interactions in magnetic materials with correlated electronic structure and significant spin-orbit coupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Borisov ◽  
Yaroslav O. Kvashnin ◽  
Nikolaos Ntallis ◽  
Danny Thonig ◽  
Patrik Thunström ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Magnetic Materials ◽  
Exchange Interactions ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Anisotropic Exchange

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
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