Observation of Spin-Orbit Berry's Phase in Magnetoresistance of a Two-Dimensional Hole Anti-dot System

Ning Kang

Universite Paris-Sud, France

We report a study of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) type oscillation in an anti-dot lattice of a two-dimensional hole system in the presence of strong spin-orbit interaction. The Fourier transform of the oscillations reveals non-monotonic evolutions with the different range of harmonic component, which are indicative of the existence of additional phase factors. A simulation considering Berry's phase and the phase arising from the spin-orbit shift in the momentum space shows qualitative agreement with the experiment.