Monopole and topological electron dynamics in adiabatic spintronic and graphene systems

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.04.007zbMATH Open1196.82131arXiv0901.3411OpenAlexW3101851846MaRDI QIDQ990004FDOQ990004

Authors: J. Martínez 

Publication date: 24 August 2010

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A unified theoretical treatment is presented to describe the physics of electron dynamics in semiconductor and graphene systems. Electron spin fast alignment with the Zeeman magnetic field (physical or effective) is treated as a form of adiabatic spin evolution which necessarily generates a monopole in magnetic space. One could transform this monopole into the physical and intuitive topological magnetic fields in the useful momentum (K) or real spaces (R). The physics of electron dynamics related to spin Hall, torque, oscillations and other technologically useful spinor effects can be inferred from the topological magnetic fields in spintronic, graphene and other SU(2) systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3411

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic monopolesBerry curvaturetopological electron dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Cites Work

• Magnetic Monopoles
• Hall Effect in Ferromagnetics
• Dirac's monopole and the Hopf map.
• Spin-Hall effect of collimated electrons in zinc-blende semiconductors

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• Yang-Mills physics in spintronics

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