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We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Yonggang Li , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

Spin transitions driven by a periodically varying electric potential in dilute fluorinated graphene quantum dots are investigated. Flakes of monolayer graphene are considered as well as electrostatic electron traps induced in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We present a systematic study on the influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, interlayer potential difference and exchange field on the topological properties of bilayer graphene. In the presence of only Rashba spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Zhenhua Qiao , Xiao Li , Wang-Kong Tse , Hua Jiang , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

Magnetic torques generated through spin-orbit coupling promise energy-efficient spintronic devices. It is important for applications to control these torques so that they switch films with perpendicular magnetizations without an external…

Interference between different possible paths lies at the heart of quantum physics. Such interference between coupled discrete and continuum states of a system can profoundly change its interaction with light as seen in Fano resonance. Here…

The phenomenon originating from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provides energy-efficient strategies for spin manipulation and device applications. The broken inversion symmetry interface and resulting electric field induce a Rashba-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Xinhe Wang , Wei Yang , Wang Yang , Yuan Cao , Xiaoyang Lin , Guodong Wei , Haichang Lu , Peizhe Tang , Weisheng Zhao

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Recently, Valenti et al. pointed out the significance of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in organic materials, and explained the anomalous insulating behavior of a Dirac semimetal alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 at low temperatures in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Toshihito Osada

Using the first principles calculations, we show that mechanically tunable electronic energy gap is realizable in bilayer graphene if different homogeneous strains are applied to the two layers. It is shown that the size of energy gap can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 Seon-Myeong Choi , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Woo Son

We theoretically study the correlated insulator states, quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states, and field-induced topological transitions between different correlated states in twisted multilayer graphene systems. Taking twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Shihao Zhang , Xi Dai , Jianpeng Liu

The negligible intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene can be enhanced by proximity effects in stacked heterostructures of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). The composition of the TMDC layer plays a key role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Zahra Khatibi , Stephen R. Power

Graphene is a promising platform for spin-based non-volatile memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing by combining long-distance spin transport with electrical tunability at room temperature. However, advancing beyond passive spin channels…

The electronic dispersion of a graphene bilayer is highly dependent on rotational mismatch between layers and can be further manipulated by electrical gating. This allows for an unprecedented control over electronic properties and opens up…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

Recently, proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been observed in heterostructures consisting of monolayer graphene (ML-G) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as WSe$_{2}$. Successful tuning of SOC in…

The electronic properties of a graphene monolayer in a magnetic and a strain-induced pseudo-magnetic field are studied in the presence of spin-orbit interactions (SOI) that are artificially enhanced, e.g., by suitable adatom deposition. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 A. De Martino , A. Hütten , R. Egger

We study spin-dependent diffusive transport in the presence of a tunable spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a two-dimensional electron system. The spin precession of an electron in the SO coupling field is expressed in terms of a covariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Shimul Akhanjee

Proximity coupling of bilayer graphene (BLG) to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offers a promising route to engineer gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) while preserving BLG's exceptional electronic properties. This tunability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 E. Icking , F. Wörtche , A. W. Cummings , A. Wörtche , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Volk , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer