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Two-dimensional Rashba metals: unconventional low-temperature transport properties (1708.09331v1)
Published 30 Aug 2017 in cond-mat.mes-hall and cond-mat.str-el
Abstract: Rashba spin-orbit coupling emerges in materials lacking of structural inversion symmetry, such as heterostructures, quantum wells, surface alloys and polar materials, just to mention few examples. It yields a coupling between the spin and momentum of electrons formally identical to that arising from the weakly-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation. The purpose of the present work is to give an overview of the unconventional dc transport properties of two-dimensional metals with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling, discussing in addition the effects of thermal broadening.