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Universal giant spin Hall effect in moire metal

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-04-24 v1

Abstract

While moir\'e phenomena have been extensively studied in low-carrier-density systems such as graphene and semiconductors, their implications for metallic systems with large Fermi surfaces remain largely unexplored. Using GPU-accelerated large-scale ab-initio quantum transport simulations, we investigate spin transport in two distinct platforms: twisted bilayer MoTe2_2 (semiconductor, from lightly to heavily doping) and NbX2_2 (XX = S, Se; metals). In twisted MoTe2_2, the spin Hall conductivity (SHC) evolves from 4e4π4\tfrac{e}{4\pi} at 5.095.09^\circ to 10e4π10\tfrac{e}{4\pi} at 1.891.89^\circ, driven by the emergence of multiple isolated Chern bands. Remarkably, in heavily doped metallic regimes--without isolated Chern bands--we observe a universal amplification of the spin Hall effect from Fermi surface reconstruction under long-wavelength potential, with the peak SHC tripling from 6e4π6\tfrac{e}{4\pi} at 5.095.09^\circ to 17e4π17\tfrac{e}{4\pi} at 3.893.89^\circ. For prototypical moir\'e metals like twisted NbX2_2, we identify a record SHC of 17e4π-17\tfrac{e}{4\pi} (-5200 (/e)S/cm(\hbar / e)S/cm in 3D units), surpassing all known bulk materials. These results establish moir\'e engineering as a powerful strategy for enhancing spin-dependent transport, and advancing ab-initio methodologies to bridge atomic-scale precision with device-scale predictions in transport simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16179,
  title  = {Universal giant spin Hall effect in moire metal},
  author = {Ning Mao and Cheng Xu and Ting Bao and Nikolai Peshcherenko and Claudia Felser and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16179},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4.5+ 27 pages, 4+ 24 figures

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