Zitterbewegung of a heavy hole in presence of spin-orbit interactions

2015/07/31 by Tutul Biswas, Sandip Chowdhury, Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Electric field #Electron #Materials science #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Orbit (dynamics) #Physics #Precession #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin–orbit interaction #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Transverse plane #Zitterbewegung #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjb/e2015-60425-6

published as Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 220 (2015) · 6 pages, 3 figures

openalex publication_date 2015/09/01 · arxiv created 2015/09/14 · arxiv updated 2015/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study the zitterbewegung of a heavy hole in presence of both cubic Rashba and cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. On contrary to the electronic case, zitterbewegung does not vanish for equal strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. This non-vanishing of zitterbewegung is associated with the Berry phase. Due to the presence of the spin-orbit coupling the spin associated with the heavy hole precesses about an effective magnetic field. This spin precession produces a transverse spin-orbit force which also generates an electric voltage associated with zitterbewegung. We have estimated the magnitude of this voltage for a possible experimental detection of zitterbewegung.

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