Emergent Rashba spin-orbit coupling in bulk gold with buried network of nanoscale interfaces
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| author | Kumbhakar, Shreya Debnath, Banashree Maji, Tuhin Kumar Tongbram, Binita Mandal, Shinjan Sai, T. Phanindra Ramakrishnan, T. V. Jain, Manish Krishnamurthy, H. R. Pandey, Anshu Ghosh, Arindam |
| author_facet | Kumbhakar, Shreya Debnath, Banashree Maji, Tuhin Kumar Tongbram, Binita Mandal, Shinjan Sai, T. Phanindra Ramakrishnan, T. V. Jain, Manish Krishnamurthy, H. R. Pandey, Anshu Ghosh, Arindam |
| contents | The Rashba effect, which plays a crucial role in fundamental materials physics and potential spintronics applications, has been engineered in diverse systems, including semiconductor quantum wells, oxide heterostructures, metallic surfaces, topological insulators, ferroelectrics, etc. However, generating it in systems that preserve bulk inversion symmetry (BIS), for example, in bulk metals, has not been possible so far. We demonstrate a unique strategy to introduce and tune Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) to unprecedented magnitudes in inversion-symmetric solids, by incorporating ultra-small silver nanoparticles in bulk gold. The near-identical lattice constants of Ag and Au allowed dense packing of the Ag/Au hetero-interfaces without compromising the global BIS. By varying the density of embedded nanoparticles, we generate Rashba SOI in a bulk metal with a coupling strength of ~15 meV.Angstrom, higher than any known system preserving BIS globally, and up to ~20 times increase in the spin-orbit scattering rate. We argue that the combined effect of charge-transfer at the interfaces and polaronic localization enhances the SOI. |
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| spellingShingle | Emergent Rashba spin-orbit coupling in bulk gold with buried network of nanoscale interfaces Kumbhakar, Shreya Debnath, Banashree Maji, Tuhin Kumar Tongbram, Binita Mandal, Shinjan Sai, T. Phanindra Ramakrishnan, T. V. Jain, Manish Krishnamurthy, H. R. Pandey, Anshu Ghosh, Arindam Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics The Rashba effect, which plays a crucial role in fundamental materials physics and potential spintronics applications, has been engineered in diverse systems, including semiconductor quantum wells, oxide heterostructures, metallic surfaces, topological insulators, ferroelectrics, etc. However, generating it in systems that preserve bulk inversion symmetry (BIS), for example, in bulk metals, has not been possible so far. We demonstrate a unique strategy to introduce and tune Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) to unprecedented magnitudes in inversion-symmetric solids, by incorporating ultra-small silver nanoparticles in bulk gold. The near-identical lattice constants of Ag and Au allowed dense packing of the Ag/Au hetero-interfaces without compromising the global BIS. By varying the density of embedded nanoparticles, we generate Rashba SOI in a bulk metal with a coupling strength of ~15 meV.Angstrom, higher than any known system preserving BIS globally, and up to ~20 times increase in the spin-orbit scattering rate. We argue that the combined effect of charge-transfer at the interfaces and polaronic localization enhances the SOI. |
| title | Emergent Rashba spin-orbit coupling in bulk gold with buried network of nanoscale interfaces |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03620 |