Spin-orbital effects in magnetized quantum wires and spin chains

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spinorbital interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron interaction, results in the spin-density wave SDW state when the magnetic-field and spinorbit axes are orthogonal. We show that this instability is enhanced in a closely related problem of Heisenberg spin chain with asymmetric uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya DM interaction. Magnetic field in the direction perpendicular to the DM anisotropy axis results in staggered long-range magnetic order along the orthogonal to the applied field direction. We explore consequences of the uniform DM interaction for the electron-spinresonance ESR measurements, and point out that they provide way to probe rightand left-moving excitations of the spin chain separately.