arXiv · 1203.6118
Interplay of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in the absorption lineshape of 2D fermions
Abstract
We suggest that electron spin resonance (ESR) experiment can be used as a probe of spinon excitations of hypothetical spin-liquid state of frustrated antiferromagnet in the presence of asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We describe assumptions under which the ESR response is reduced to the response of 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Unlike previous treatments, the spin-orbit coupling, Δ_{SO}, is not assumed small compared to the Zeeman splitting, Δ_Z. We demonstrate that ESR response diverges at the edges of the absorption spectrum for ac magnetic field perpendicular to the static field. At the compensation point, Δ_{SO}\approx Δ_Z, the broad absorption spectrum exhibits features that evolve with temperature, T, even when T is comparable to the Fermi energy.
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R. Glenn, O. A. Starykh, M. E. Raikh. 2012-07-26. Interplay of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in the absorption lineshape of 2D fermions. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.86.024423
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