An Antisymmetric Berry Frictional Force At Equilibrium in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Coupling
| Autor: | Teh, Hung-Hsuan, Dou, Wenjie, Subotnik, Joseph E. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L201409 |
| Popis: | We analytically calculate the electronic friction tensor for a molecule near a metal surface in the case that the electronic Hamiltonian is complex-valued, e.g. the case that there is spin-orbit coupling and/or an external magnetic field. In such a case, even at equilibrium, we show that the friction tensor is not symmetric. Instead, the tensor is the real-valued sum of one positive definite tensor (corresponding to dissipation) plus one antisymmetric tensor (corresponding to a Berry pseudomagnetic force). Moreover, we find that this Berry force can be much larger than the dissipational force, suggesting the possibility of strongly spin-polarized chemicurrents or strongly spin-dependent rate constants for systems with spin-orbit coupling. Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures (main text); 15 pages, 15 figures (supplemental material) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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