Radial spin texture in elemental tellurium with chiral crystal structure

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Radial spin texture in elemental tellurium with chiral crystal structure
المؤلفون: Sakano, M., Hirayama, M., Takahashi, T., Akebi, S., Nakayama, M., Kuroda, K., Taguchi, K., Yoshikawa, T., Miyamoto, K., Okuda, T., Ono, K., Kumigashira, H., Ideue, T., Iwasa, Y., Mitsuishi, N., Ishizaka, K., Shin, S., Miyake, T., Murakami, S., Sasagawa, T., Kondo, Takeshi
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 136404 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: The chiral crystal is characterized by a lack of mirror symmetry and an inversion center, resulting in the inequivalent right- and left-handed structures. In the noncentrosymmetric crystal structure, the spin and momentum of electrons are locked in the reciprocal space with the help of the spin-orbit interaction. To reveal the spin textures of chiral crystals, here we investigate the spin and electronic structure in p-type semiconductor elemental tellurium with a chiral crystal structure by using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Our data demonstrate that the highest valence band crossing the Fermi level has a spin component parallel to the electron momentum around the BZ corners. Significantly, we have also confirmed that the spin polarization is reversed in the crystal with the opposite chirality. The results indicate that the spin textures of the right- and left-handed chiral crystals are hedgehog-like, leading to unconventional magnetoelectric effects and nonreciprocal phenomena.
Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.136404
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09725
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1908.09725
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.136404