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We theoretically study electrically tunable magnetoplasmons in a monolayer of silicene or germanene. We derive the dynamical response function and take into account the effects of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and of an external electric…

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Two-dimensional artificial magnetic honeycomb lattice is predicted to manifest thermodynamic phase transition to the spin solid order ground state at low temperature. Nonlinear susceptibilities are very sensitive to thermodynamic phase…

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Spin-1/2 particles such as the electron are described by the Dirac equation, which allows for two spin eigenvalues (up or down) and two types of energy eigenvalues (positive or negative, corresponding to the electron and the positron). A…

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We investigate the optical response of the silicene and similar materials, such as germanene, in the presence of an electrically tunable band gap for variable doping. The interplay of spin orbit coupling, due to the buckled structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Lukas Stille , Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

We show that the electric field-induced thermal asymmetry between the electron and lattice systems in pure silicon substantially impacts the identity of the dominant spin relaxation mechanism. Comparison of empirical results from…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-10 Jing Li , Lan Qing , Hanan Dery , Ian Appelbaum

We use the tight-binding model and the random-phase approximation to investigate the intrinsic plasmon in silicene. At finite temperatures, an undamped plasmon is generated from the interplay between the intraband and the interband-gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Jhao-Ying Wu , Chiun-Yan Lin , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

We start with the silicene or germanene single-particle Hamiltonian in buckled 2D hexagonal lattices expressed in terms of Dirac matrices in the Weyl basis. The Hamiltonian of these systems comprises of the Dirac kinetic energy, a mass gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Partha Goswami

It is well-known that the dynamics of low energy electron in graphene honeycomb lattice near the K/K' points can be described, in tight-binding approximation, by 2+1 massless Dirac equation. Graphene's spin equivalent, "pseudospin", arises…

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This work is an analytic theoretical study of a 2D semiconductor with a Fermi surface that is split by the Zeeman coupling of electron spins to an external magnetic field in the presence of electron-electron interactions. For the first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-07 Joel Hutchinson , Dmitry Miserev , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Two-dimensional artificial magnetic honeycomb lattice is at the forefront of research on unconventional magnetic materials. Among the many emergent magnetic phases that are predicted to arise as a function of temperature, the low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 A. Dahal , B. Summers , D. K. Singh

The nature of the effective spin Hamiltonian and magnetic order in the honeycomb iridates is explored by considering a trigonal crystal field effect and spin-orbit coupling. Starting from a Hubbard model, an effective spin Hamiltonian is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-10 Subhro Bhattacharjee , Sung-Sik Lee , Yong Baek Kim

The Coulomb interaction between electrons of opposite spin orientations in a metal or in a doped semiconductor results in a negative off-diagonal component of the electrical resistivity matrix -- the so-called "spin-drag resistivity". It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Vignale

We investigate quantum Hall effects in silicene by applying electric field $E_z$ parallel to magnetic field. Silicene is a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, and shares almost every remarkable property…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Motohiko Ezawa

The stability and electronic structure of competing silicene phases under in-plane compressive stress, either free-standing or on the ZrB$_2$(0001) surface, has been studied by first-principles calculations. A particular…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-10 Chi-Cheng Lee , Antoine Fleurence , Rainer Friedlein , Yukiko Yamada-Takamura , Taisuke Ozaki

Silicene is a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a honeycomb lattice. The lattice is actually made of two sublattices with a tiny separation. Silicene is a topological insulator, which is characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Motohiko Ezawa

The electron mediated exchange interaction between local spins adsorbed on two-dimensional surface is studied under non-equilibrium conditions. The effective spin-spin interaction is found to depend both on the spin-polarization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-29 J. Fransson

The orbital diamagnetic susceptibility is calculated in monolayer and bilayer graphenes with band gap as well as in three-dimensional Dirac systems. It is demonstrated that the pseudo-spin degree of freedom such as valleys produces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

The simple Hubbard Hamiltonian with the mean field approximation is used to know about the energy bands and spin susceptibilities of zigzag graphene nanoribbons. Depending on the electron doping, antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Juan-Antonio Casao-Perez

Using the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in the unrestricted mean field approximation, the effect of spin-orbit coupling, as an intrinsic parameter, and an in-plane transverse electric field, as an external parameter, on the electronic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 J. Ghorbani , M. Ghaffarian

We report the experimental and theoretical characterization of the angular-dependent spin dynamics in arrays of ferromagnetic nanodisks arranged on a honeycomb lattice. The magnetic field and microwave frequency dependence, measured by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Mojtaba Taghipour Kaffash , Wonbae Bang , Sergi Lendinez , Axel Hoffmann , John B. Ketterson , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch