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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 known to have small intrinsic spin-orbit Interaction (SOI). In this review, we demonstrate that SOIs in graphene can be strongly enhanced by proximity effect when graphene is deposited on the top of transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Taro Wakamura , Sophie Guéron , Hélène Bouchiat

We perform systematic first-principles calculations of the proximity exchange coupling, induced by cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni) in graphene, via a few (up to three) layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We find that the induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Tobias Frank , Jaroslav Fabian

\textit{Ab initio} pseudo-atomic orbital (PAO) Hamiltonians express the electronic structure of a solid in a compact, localized basis that spans the same Hilbert space as a conventional Slater--Koster tight-binding model, thereby providing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

We report a systematic study on strong enhancement of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene driven by transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Low temperature magnetotoransport measurements of graphene proximitized to different TMDs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 T. Wakamura , F. Reale , P. Palczynski , M. Q. Zhao , A. T. C. Johnson , S. Guéron , C. Mattevi , A. Ouerghi , H. Bouchiat

We investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling $\lambda$ in strongly-correlated multiorbital systems that we describe by a three-orbital Hubbard-Kanamori model on a Bethe lattice. We solve the problem at all integer fillings $N$ with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Robert Triebl , Gernot J. Kraberger , Jernej Mravlje , Markus Aichhorn

We investigate the proximity spin-orbit and exchange couplings in ABA and ABC trilayer graphene encapsulated within monolayers of semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides and the ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Large spin-orbital proximity effects have been predicted in graphene interfaced with a transition metal dichalcogenide layer. Whereas clear evidence for an enhanced spin-orbit coupling has been found at large carrier densities, the type of…

Inducing and controlling spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene is key to create topological states of matter, and for the realization of spintronic devices. Placing graphene onto a transition metal dichalcogenide is currently the most…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has played an important role in many topological and correlated electron materials. In graphene-based systems, SOC induced by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) at proximity was shown to drive topological states…

Prototypical three-dimensional topological insulators of the Bi$_2$Se$_3$ family provide a beautiful example of the appearance of the surface states inside the bulk band gap caused by spin-orbit coupling-induced topology. The surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We incorporate spin-orbit coupling (SOC) into effective Kugel-Khomskii models for the $n=1$ and $n=2$ members of the Ruddlesden-Popper series Sr$_{n+1}$Cr$_n$O$_{3n+1}$. These model contain interacting spins 1 and pseudospins 1/2 at each…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-01 Cristian Fanjul , A. A. Aligia

We show that the influence of spin-orbit (SO) coupling on the weak localization effect for electrons in graphene depends on the lack or presence of z/-z symmetry in the system. While for z/-z asymmetric SO coupling, disordered graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We report on the investigation of proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a heterostructure of bilayer graphene (BLG) and tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$). A BLG quantum dot (QD) in the few-particle regime acts as a sensitive probe for…

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

We investigate, using first-principles methods and effective-model simulations, the spin-orbit coupling proximity effects in a bilayer heterostructure comprising phosphorene and WSe$_2$ monolayers. We specifically analyze holes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marko Milivojević , Martin Gmitra , Marcin Kurpas , Ivan Štich , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate topological properties of models that describe graphene on realistic substrates which induce proximity spin-orbit coupling in graphene. A $\mathbb{Z}_2$ phase diagram is calculated for the parameter space of (generally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Tobias Frank , Petra Högl , Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

The electronic band structure of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and transverse electric field is investigated from first principles using the linearized augmented plane-wave method. The spin-orbit coupling opens a gap at…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Gmitra , S. Konschuh , C. Ertler , C. Ambrosch-Draxl , J. Fabian

We demonstrate strong anisotropic spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene induced by monolayer WS$_2$. Direct comparison between graphene/monolayer WS$_2$ and graphene/bulk WS$_2$ system in magnetotransport measurements reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Taro Wakamura , Francesco Reale , Pawel Palczynski , Sophie Guéron , Cecilia Mattevi , Hélène Bouchiat

The spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) of hydrogenated and fluorinated graphenes are calculated from the first principles method. It is found that the SOC-induced band splittings near their Fermi energies can be significantly enhanced to the order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 Jian Zhou , Qifeng Liang , Jinming Dong