{
  "id": "1507.01393",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-07-06T11:23:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-07-06T11:23:42.000Z",
  "title": "Zitterbewegung of a heavy hole in presence of spin-orbit interaction",
  "authors": [
    "Tutul Biswas",
    "Sandip Chowdhury",
    "Tarun Kanti Ghosh"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the $zitterbewegung$ of a heavy hole in presence of both cubic Rashba and cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. 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 $zitterbewegung$.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-07-06T11:23:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "cubic dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction",
      "zitterbewegung",
      "heavy hole precesses",
      "spin precession produces",
      "transverse spin-orbit force"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1140/epjb/e2015-60425-6",
      "journal": "European Physical Journal B",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 88,
      "number": 9,
      "pages": 220
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015EPJB...88..220B"
    }
  }
}