Spin Hall mode in a trapped thermal Rashba gas

Autor: Armaitis, J., Ruseckas, J., Stoof, H. T. C., Duine, R. A.
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. A 96, 053625 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053625
Popis: We theoretically investigate a two-dimensional harmonically-trapped gas of identical atoms with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and no interatomic interactions. In analogy with the spin Hall effect in uniform space, the gas exhibits a spin Hall mode. In particular, in response to a displacement of the center-of-mass of the system, spin-dipole moment oscillations occur. We determine the properties of these oscillations exactly, and find that their amplitude strongly depends on the spin-orbit coupling strength and the quantum statistics of the particles.
Databáze: arXiv