2007/08/31 by Yuri A. Serebrennikov · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2007.09.001
published as Phys. Lett. A 372, 1106 (2008) · Will appear in Phys. Lett. A
openalex publication_date 2007/09/11 · arxiv created 2007/09/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Account of an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the valence bands of common semiconductors yields the scalar spin-orbit-rotation term in the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the conduction-band electron. This result is obtained within the multiband envelope function approximation. Fundamentally, the spin-orbit-rotation coupling can be described in purely geometric terms as a consequence of the difference in the Berry phase acquired by the components of the spin-orbitally mixed Kramers-doublet during its cyclic evolution in the reciprocal momentum space.