Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

Decoherence in solid-state qubits

L Chirolli, G Burkard - Advances in Physics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The interaction of solid-state qubits with environmental degrees of freedom strongly affects
the qubit dynamics, and leads to decoherence. In quantum information processing with solid …

Detection of Berry's phase in a bulk Rashba semiconductor

H Murakawa, MS Bahramy, M Tokunaga, Y Kohama… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The motion of electrons in a solid has a profound effect on its topological properties and may
result in a nonzero Berry's phase, a geometric quantum phase encoded in the system's …

Cubic spin-orbit coupling and anomalous Josephson effect in planar junctions

M Alidoust, C Shen, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and
Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a …

Gate-controlled spin-orbit quantum interference effects in lateral transport

JB Miller, DM Zumbühl, CM Marcus, YB Lyanda-Geller… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
In situ control of spin-orbit coupling in coherent transport using a clean G a A s/A l G a A s
two-dimensional electron gas is realized, leading to a gate-tunable crossover from weak …

Spin relaxation and decoherence of holes in quantum dots

DV Bulaev, D Loss - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We investigate heavy-hole spin relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots in
perpendicular magnetic fields. We show that at low temperatures the spin decoherence time …

Generating a topological anomalous Hall effect in a nonmagnetic conductor: an in-plane magnetic field as a direct probe of the Berry curvature

JH Cullen, P Bhalla, E Marcellina, AR Hamilton… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that the Berry curvature monopole of nonmagnetic two-dimensional spin-
3/2 holes leads to a novel Hall effect linear in an applied in-plane magnetic field B∥ …

Cubic Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in a Strained- Quantum Well

R Moriya, K Sawano, Y Hoshi, S Masubuchi, Y Shiraki… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of a two-dimensional hole gas in the inversion symmetric
semiconductor Ge is studied in a strained-Ge/SiGe quantum well structure. We observe …

Spin field effect transistor with a graphene channel

YG Semenov, KW Kim, JM Zavada - Applied Physics Letters, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A spin field effect transistor (FET) is proposed by utilizing a graphene layer as the channel.
Similar to the conventional spin FETs, the device involves spin injection and spin detection …

Electric dipole spin resonance for heavy holes in quantum dots

DV Bulaev, D Loss - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We propose and analyze a new method for manipulation of a heavy-hole spin in a quantum
dot. Because of spin-orbit coupling between states with different orbital momenta and …