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The Rashba effect, or Rashba-Dresselhaus effect, is a momentum-dependent splitting of spin bands in two-dimensional condensed matter systems (heterostructures and surface states) similar to the splitting of particles and anti-particles in the Dirac Hamiltonian. The splitting is a combined effect of atomic spin-orbit coupling and asymmetry of the potential in the direction perpendicular to the two-dimensional plane. This effect is named in honour of Emmanuel Rashba who discovered it.〔G. Bihlmayer, O. Rader and R. Winkler, Focus on the Rashba effect , New J. Phys. 17, 050202 (2015)〕〔Han Woong Yeom and Marco Grioni, eds, Special issue on electron spectroscopy for Rashba spin-orbit interaction, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 201, 1-126 (2015)〕 Remarkably, this effect can drive a wide variety of novel physical phenomena even when it is a small correction to the band structure of the two-dimensional metallic state. Additionally, superconductors with large Rashba splitting are suggested as possible realizations of the elusive Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state and the longed topological p-wave superconductor. Lately, a momentum dependent pseudospin-orbit coupling has been realized in cold atom systems. ==The Rashba Hamiltonian== The Rashba effect is most easily seen in the simple model Hamiltonian known as the Rashba Hamiltonian :, where is the Rashba coupling, is the momentum and is the Pauli matrix vector. This is nothing but a two-dimensional version of the Dirac Hamiltonian (with a 90 degrees rotation of the spins). The Rashba model in solids can be derived in the framework of the theory or from the point of view of a tight binding approximation. However, the specifics of these methods are considered tedious and many prefer an intuitive toy model that gives qualitatively the same physics (quantitatively it gives a poor estimation of the coupling ). Here we will introduce the intuitive toy model approach followed by a sketch of a more accurate derivation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rashba effect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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