Spin orbit coupling in 5d transition metal oxides such as Ir oxides is expected to be strong due to large atomic number of Ir and electron correlation strength will be weak due to large radial extension of the 5d orbitals. Hence, various anomalous electronic properties often observed in these systems are attributed to large spin-orbit interaction strength. Employing first principles approaches,...

The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light is very weak because of the extremely small photon momentum and spin-orbit interaction. Here, we report a strong photonic SHE resulting in a measured large splitting of polarized light at metasurfaces. The rapidly varying phase discontinuities along a metasurface, breaking the axial symmetry of the system, enable the direct observation of large transverse mot...

We investigate the influence of spin-orbit interaction on ballistic transport through chaotic cavities by using semiclassical methods. Our approach is based on the Landauer formalism IBM J. Res. Dev. 1, 223 1957 ; 32, 306 1988 and the Fisher-Lee relations Phys. Rev. B 23, 6851 1981 , appropriately generalized to spin-orbit interaction, and a semiclassical representation of Green’s functions. We...

A clear and reliable theoretical investigation on dibromomethane (CH(2)Br(2)) photodissociation is desired. The calculation must consider: (i) relativistic effects; (ii) the potential energy curves (PECs) of spin-orbit coupling states; (iii) geometry optimization by the method with both static and dynamic electron correlations; (iv) solvent effects on the photodissociation in the solution. All ...

Spin-orbit interaction entangles the orbitals with the different spins. The spin-orbital-entangled states were discovered in surface states of topological insulators. However, the spin-orbital-entanglement is not specialized in the topological surface states. Here, we show the spin-orbital texture in a surface state of Bi(111) by laser-based spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (...

The spin-orbit interaction plays a crucial role in diverse fields of condensed matter, including the investigation of Majorana fermions, topological insulators, quantum information and spintronics. In III-V zinc-blende semiconductor heterostructures, two types of spin-orbit interaction--Rashba and Dresselhaus--act on the electron spin as effective magnetic fields with different directions. They...

Quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously control the coupling strength and the screened Coulomb interactions where new exotic phases of matter can be explored. Here we report on the observation of an exotic spin-orbit density wave in Pb-atomic wires on Si(557) surfaces by mapping out the evolution of the modulated spin-texture at various conditions w...

We consider the time evolution of the magnetization in a Rashba spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas, starting from a fully polarized initial state. We model the dynamics using a Boltzmann equation, which we solve in the Hartree-Fock approximation. The resulting nonlinear system of equations gives rise to three distinct dynamical regimes with qualitatively different asymptotic behaviors of the magnetiz...

Institute of Physical Chemistry II, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-8520 Erlangen, Germany (Z. Naturforsch. 29 a, 4'19—428 [1974] ; received 16 November 1973) The complete ligand-field, Coulomb interelectronic repulsion, and spin-orbit interaction matrices have been derived for the d5 electron configuration within octahedral (Oh) and tetrahedral (Td) symmetry. The calculations were performed...