Spin Hall and inverse spin galvanic effects in graphene with strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a quasi-classical Green's function approach

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العنوان: Spin Hall and inverse spin galvanic effects in graphene with strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a quasi-classical Green's function approach
المؤلفون: Roberto Raimondi, Aires Ferreira, Carmen Monaco
المساهمون: Monaco, Carmen, Ferreira, Aire, Raimondi, Roberto
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics, Condensed matter physics, Spintronics, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Graphene, Fermi level, FOS: Physical sciences, Fermi energy, Spin–orbit interaction, law.invention, symbols.namesake, Dirac fermion, law, Green's function, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), symbols, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Spin-½
الوصف: van der Waals heterostructures assembled from atomically thin crystals are ideal model systems to study spin-orbital coupled transport because they exhibit a strong interplay between spin, lattice and valley degrees of freedom that can be manipulated by strain, electric bias and proximity effects. The recently predicted spin-helical regime in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenides, in which spin and pseudospin degrees of freedom are locked together [M. Offidani et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196801 (2017)], suggests their potential application in spintronics. Here, by deriving an Eilenberger equation for the quasiclassical Green's function of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of} spin-orbit coupling\textcolor{black}{{} (SOC) and scalar disorder, we obtain analytical expressions for the dc spin galvanic susceptibility and spin Hall conductivity in the spin-helical regime. Our results disclose a sign change in the spin Hall angle (SHA) when the Fermi energy relative to the Dirac point matches the Bychkov-Rashba energy scale, irrespective of the magnitude of the spin-valley interaction imprinted on the graphene layer. The behavior of the SHA is connected to a reversal of the total internal angular momentum of Bloch electrons that reflects the spin-pseudospin entanglement induced by SOC. We also show that the charge-spin conversion reaches a maximum when the Fermi level lies at the edge of the spin-minority band in agreement with previous findings. Both features are fingerprints of spin-helical Dirac fermions and suggest a direct way to estimate the strength of proximity-induced SOC from transport data. The relevance of these findings for interpreting recent spin-charge conversion measurements in nonlocal spin-valve geometry is also discussed.
Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures
وصف الملف: application/pdf
تدمد: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.00624
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::271b41a07a59bf41402f986f5f051ea7
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....271b41a07a59bf41402f986f5f051ea7
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:26431564
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2106.00624