Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

A Manchon, J Železný, IM Miron, T Jungwirth… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged
as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin …

All-optical probe of three-dimensional topological insulators based on high-harmonic generation by circularly polarized laser fields

D Baykusheva, A Chacón, J Lu, TP Bailey… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the observation of an anomalous nonlinear optical response of the prototypical
three-dimensional topological insulator bismuth selenide through the process of high-order …

Room temperature magnetization switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures by spin-orbit torques

Y Wang, D Zhu, Y Wu, Y Yang, J Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological insulators with spin-momentum-locked topological surface states are expected
to exhibit a giant spin-orbit torque in the topological insulator/ferromagnet systems. To date …

Spin-transfer torque generated by a topological insulator

AR Mellnik, JS Lee, A Richardella, JL Grab, PJ Mintun… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Magnetic devices are a leading contender for the implementation of memory and logic
technologies that are non-volatile, that can scale to high density and high speed, and that do …

Giant Rashba splitting in 2D organic-inorganic halide perovskites measured by transient spectroscopies

Y Zhai, S Baniya, C Zhang, J Li, P Haney… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Two-dimensional (2D) layered hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite semiconductors
form natural “multiple quantum wells” that have strong spin-orbit coupling due to the heavy …

Dirac materials

TO Wehling, AM Black-Schaffer… - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Giant spin-orbit-induced spin splitting in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

ZY Zhu, YC Cheng, U Schwingenschlögl - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
Fully relativistic first-principles calculations based on density functional theory are performed
to study the spin-orbit-induced spin splitting in monolayer systems of the transition-metal …

New perspectives for Rashba spin–orbit coupling

A Manchon, HC Koo, J Nitta, SM Frolov, RA Duine - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract In 1984, Bychkov and Rashba introduced a simple form of spin–orbit coupling to
explain the peculiarities of electron spin resonance in two-dimensional semiconductors …