@misc{SeiboldCapraraGrillietal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Caprara, Sergio and Grilli, Marco and Raimondi, Roberto}, title = {Intrinsic spin Hall effect in systems with striped spin-orbit coupling}, series = {epl : a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics}, volume = {112}, journal = {epl : a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics}, number = {1}, issn = {1286-4854}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/17004}, pages = {17004-p1 -- 17004-p6}, language = {en} } @misc{BovenziFinocchiaroScopignoetal., author = {Bovenzi, Nicolo and Finocchiaro, Francesca and Scopigno, Nicantro and Bucheli, Daniel and Caprara, Sergio and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Possible Mechanisms of Electronic Phase Separation in Oxide Interfaces}, series = {Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, volume = {28}, journal = {Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, number = {4}, issn = {1557-1939}, doi = {10.1007/s10948-014-2903-7}, pages = {1273 -- 1277}, abstract = {LaAlO 3/SrTiO 3 and LaTiO 3/SrTiO 3 (LXO / STO) interfaces are known to host a strongly inhomogeneous (nearly) two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). In this work, we present three unconventional electronic mechanisms of electronic phase separation (EPS) in a 2DEG as a possible source of inhomogeneity in oxide interfaces. Common to all three mechanisms is the dependence of some (interaction) potential on the 2DEGs density. We first consider a mechanism resulting from a sizable density-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Next, we point out that an EPS may also occur in the case of a density-dependent superconducting pairing interaction. Finally, we show that the confinement of the 2DEG to the interface by a density-dependent, self-consistent electrostatic potential can by itself cause an EPS.}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldBucheliCapraraetal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Bucheli, Daniel and Caprara, Sergio and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Phase separation and long-wavelength charge instabilities in spin-orbit coupled systems}, series = {EPL Europhysics Letters}, volume = {109}, journal = {EPL Europhysics Letters}, number = {1}, issn = {1286-4854}, doi = {10.1209/0295-5075/109/17006}, pages = {17006}, abstract = {We investigate a two-dimensional electron model with Rashba spin-orbit interaction where the coupling constant \$g=g(n)\$ depends on the electronic density. It is shown that this dependence may drive the system unstable towards a long-wavelength charge density wave (CDW) where the associated second-order instability occurs in close vicinity to global phase separation. For very low electron densities the CDW instability is nesting-induced and the modulation follows the Fermi momentum kF. At higher density the instability criterion becomes independent of kF and the system may become unstable in a broad momentum range. Finally, upon filling the upper spin-orbit split band, finite momentum instabilities disappear in favor of phase separation alone. We discuss our results with regard to the inhomogeneous phases observed at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 or LaTiO3/SrTiO3 interfaces.}, language = {en} } @misc{CapatiCapraraDiCastroetal., author = {Capati, Matteo and Caprara, Sergio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Electronic polymers and soft-matter-like broken symmetries in underdoped cuprates}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {6}, journal = {Nature Communications}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {doi:10.1038/ncomms8691}, pages = {7691}, abstract = {Empirical evidence in heavy fermion, pnictide and other systems suggests that unconventional superconductivity appears associated to some form of real-space electronic order. For the cuprates, despite several proposals, the emergence of order in the phase diagram between the commensurate antiferromagnetic state and the superconducting state is not well understood. Here we show that in this regime doped holes assemble in 'electronic polymers'. Within a Monte Carlo study, we find that in clean systems by lowering the temperature the polymer melt condenses first in a smectic state and then in a Wigner crystal both with the addition of inversion symmetry breaking. Disorder blurs the positional order leaving a robust inversion symmetry breaking and a nematic order, accompanied by vector chiral spin order and with the persistence of a thermodynamic transition. Such electronic phases, whose properties are reminiscent of soft-matter physics, produce charge and spin responses in good accord with experiments.}, language = {en} }