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Graphene supported on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate offers a novel platform to study the spin transport in graphene in presence of a substrate induced spin-orbit coupling, while preserving its intrinsic charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

We study the spin relaxation in graphene due to magnetic moments induced by defects. We propose and employ in our studies a microscopic model that describes magnetic impurity scattering processes mediated by charge puddles. This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Vladimir G. Miranda , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We perform a comparative study of the spin relaxation by spin-orbit coupling induced from adatoms (hydrogen and fluorine) in graphene. Two methods are applied, giving consistent results: a full quantum transport simulation of a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jan Bundesmann , Denis Kochan , Fedor Tkatschenko , Jaroslav Fabian , Klaus Richter

We present a unified theoretical framework for the study of spin dynamics and relativistic transport phenomena in disordered two-dimensional Dirac systems with pseudospin-spin coupling. The formalism is applied to the paradigmatic case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Manuel Offidani , Roberto Raimondi , Aires Ferreira

The preservation and manipulation of a spin state mainly depends on the strength of the spin-orbit interaction. For pristine graphene, the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is only in the order of few ueV, which makes it almost impossible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Ahmet Avsar , Jong Hak Lee , Gavin Kok Wai Koon , Barbaros Ozyilmaz

Pseudo-magnetic field becomes an experimental reality after the observation of zero-field Landau level-like quantization in strained graphene, but it is not expected that the time-reversal symmetric pseudo-magnetic fields will have any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Lin He

In graphene, out-of-plane (flexural) vibrations and static ripples imposed by the substrate relax the electron spin, intrinsically protected by mirror symmetry. We calculate the relaxation times in different scenarios, accounting for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 I. M. Vicent , H. Ochoa , F. Guinea

We propose an intrinsic spin scattering mechanism in graphene originated by the interplay of atomic spin-orbit interaction and the local curvature induced by flexural distortions of the atomic lattice. Starting from a multiorbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 S. Fratini , D. Gosálbez-Martínez , P. Merodio Cámara , J. Fernández-Rossier

The effects of surface chemical doping on spin transport in graphene are investigated by performing non-local measurements in ultrahigh vacuum while depositing gold adsorbates. We demonstrate manipulation of the gate-dependent non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 K. Pi , Wei Han , K. M. McCreary , A. G. Swartz , Yan Li , R. K. Kawakami

We theoretically investigate spin dynamics in spin-orbit-coupled materials. In the ballistic limit, the spin lifetime is dictated by dephasing that arises from energy broadening plus a non-uniform spin precession. For the case of clean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Aron W. Cummings , S. Roche

Graphene is a material with great potential in the field of spintronics, combining good conductivity with low spin--orbit coupling (SOC), which allows for the transport of spin currents over long distances. However, this lack of SOC also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Eoin Dolan , Zhendong Chi , Haozhe Yang , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

In graphene spintronics, interaction of localized magnetic moments with the electron spins paves a new way to explore the underlying spin relaxation mechanism. A self-assembled layer of organic cobalt-porphyrin (CoPP) molecules on graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 S. Omar , M. Gurram , I. J. Vera-Marun , X. Zhang , E. H. Huisman , A. Kaverzin , B. L. Feringa , B. J. van Wees

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron-electron interaction can mutually influence each other and give rise to a plethora of intriguing phenomena in condensed matter systems. In pristine bilayer graphene, which has weak SOC, intrinsic…

Topological quantum matter exhibits novel transport phenomena driven by entanglement between internal degrees of freedom, as for instance generated by spin-orbit coupling effects. Here we report on a direct connection between the mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jorge Martinez Romeral , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

Experimental evidence from both spin-valve and quantum transport measurements points towards unexpectedly fast spin relaxation in graphene. We report magnetotransport studies of epitaxial graphene on SiC in a vector magnetic field showing…

Thanks to its intrinsic ability to preserve spin coherence, graphene is a prime material for spintronics. In this review article, we summarize recent achievements related to spintronics in graphene quantum dots and motivate this field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard

Relaxation, <Sz(t)>, of the average spin of a carrier in course of hops over sites hosting random hyperfine fields is studied theoretically. In low dimensions, d = 1, 2, the decay of average spin with time is non-exponential at all times.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. C. Roundy , M. E. Raikh

The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent physical properties of this material, as well as graphene-based spintronic devices. Here we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Wei Han , Roland K. Kawakami , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We show that the pseudospin being an additional degree of freedom for carriers in graphene can be efficiently controlled by means of the electron-electron interactions which, in turn, can be manipulated by changing the substrate. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose an enhancement of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Santiago Giménez de Castro , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche