Gauge-Field-Mediated Symmetry Breaking of Matters Under Electromagnetic Fields and Its Impact on Spin Dynamics
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| author | Jeong, Uiseok Sisakht, Esmaeil Taghizadeh Rubio, Angel Ullrich, Carsten A. Kim, Kyoung-Whan Park, Noejung |
| author_facet | Jeong, Uiseok Sisakht, Esmaeil Taghizadeh Rubio, Angel Ullrich, Carsten A. Kim, Kyoung-Whan Park, Noejung |
| contents | When a condensed-matter system is subjected to external electromagnetic fields, the gauge-invariant formulation of physical operators must explicitly incorporate the gauge-field contribution. However, in the context of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), this gauge-field term is often regarded as negligible or merely additive compared to the canonical SOC, which is typically localized near atomic cores. Here, we demonstrate that the symmetry breaking and consequent spin dynamics are governed by the gauge-field term, without which the spins remain symmetry-constrained. We perform real-time time-dependent density functional theory calculations to investigate spin-orbit dynamics, focusing on representative cases with mirror, glide, and screw-rotational symmetry. We demonstrate that when the gauge-field term in the time-dependent Hamiltonian perturbs the symmetry of the canonical term, a dynamical spin state gradually develops during the time evolution, beyond the symmetry-frozen states. We suggest that, for nonequilibrium spin-orbit dynamics, the gauge-invariant formulation of SOC is not only formally required but also quantitatively essential, even for a weak external field. |
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| spellingShingle | Gauge-Field-Mediated Symmetry Breaking of Matters Under Electromagnetic Fields and Its Impact on Spin Dynamics Jeong, Uiseok Sisakht, Esmaeil Taghizadeh Rubio, Angel Ullrich, Carsten A. Kim, Kyoung-Whan Park, Noejung Materials Science Computational Physics When a condensed-matter system is subjected to external electromagnetic fields, the gauge-invariant formulation of physical operators must explicitly incorporate the gauge-field contribution. However, in the context of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), this gauge-field term is often regarded as negligible or merely additive compared to the canonical SOC, which is typically localized near atomic cores. Here, we demonstrate that the symmetry breaking and consequent spin dynamics are governed by the gauge-field term, without which the spins remain symmetry-constrained. We perform real-time time-dependent density functional theory calculations to investigate spin-orbit dynamics, focusing on representative cases with mirror, glide, and screw-rotational symmetry. We demonstrate that when the gauge-field term in the time-dependent Hamiltonian perturbs the symmetry of the canonical term, a dynamical spin state gradually develops during the time evolution, beyond the symmetry-frozen states. We suggest that, for nonequilibrium spin-orbit dynamics, the gauge-invariant formulation of SOC is not only formally required but also quantitatively essential, even for a weak external field. |
| title | Gauge-Field-Mediated Symmetry Breaking of Matters Under Electromagnetic Fields and Its Impact on Spin Dynamics |
| topic | Materials Science Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03539 |