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TUT: Tutorials

TUT 3: Spin-Orbit Coupling

TUT 3.1: Tutorial

Sunday, March 11, 2018, 16:00–16:45, H 1012

Role of spin in the structure of matter and spin-related phenomena — •Michel I. Dyakonov — Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université Montpellier, France

While it can seem that the existence of the internal angular momentum - spin and the associated magnetic moment of the elementary constituents of matter (proton, neutron, electron) is a minor detail compared to their strong and electromagnetic interactions, in reality this property defines the whole structure of our world. The reason for this is that these particles are fermions, which obey the Pauli principle. This defines the fundamental properties of atoms, molecules, and solids.

A brief review will be presented of not so fundamental, but still quite interesting, spin-related phenomena, which have been studied for a long time and especially intensively in recent years:

Optical spin effects in atomic and solid state physics

• Optical spin orientation and detection

• Hanle effect

• Hyperfine interaction and nuclear magnetic fields

Electrical spin-related effects

• Spin resonance

• Anomalous Hall effect

• Spin currents

• Spin Hall Effect

• Spin Hall magnetoresistance

• Swapping spin currents

• Perspectives