{"paper":{"title":"Spin-orbit interactions in inversion-asymmetric 2D hole systems: a variational analysis","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.mes-hall","authors_text":"A. R. Hamilton, Dimitrie Culcer, E. MArcellina, R. Winkler","submitted_at":"2016-04-29T10:09:57Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present an in-depth study of the spin-orbit (SO) interactions occurring in inversion-asymmetric two-dimensional hole gases at semiconductor heterointerfaces. We focus on common semiconductors such as GaAs, InAs, InSb, Ge, and Si. We develop a semi-analytical variational method to quantify SO interactions, accounting for both structure inversion asymmetry (SIA) and bulk inversion asymmetry (BIA). Under certain circumstances, using the Schrieffer-Wolff (SW) transformation, the dispersion of the ground state heavy hole subbands can be written as $E(k) = A k^2 - B k^4 \\pm C k^3$ where $A$, $B$,"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1604.08759","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}