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Theory of spin-orbit coupling in bilayer graphene is presented. The electronic band structure of the AB bilayer in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a transverse electric field is calculated from first-principles using the linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Sergej Konschuh , Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

We report that the {\pi}-electrons of graphene can be spin-polarized to create a phase with a significant spin-orbit gap at the Dirac point (DP) using a graphene-interfaced topological insulator hybrid material. We have grown epitaxial…

A recent experiment showed that proximity induced Ising spin-orbit coupling enhances the spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene. Here, we show that, due to the nearly perfect spin rotation symmetry of graphene, the…

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) encapsulated within monolayers of strong spin-orbit semiconductor WS$_2$ or ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ (CGT), are investigated. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

The magnetic proximity effect can induce a spin dependent exchange shift in the band structure of graphene. This produces a magnetization and a spin polarization of the electron/hole carriers in this material, paving the way for its use as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Boxuan Yang , Bibek Bhujel , Daniel G. Chica , Evan J. Telford , Xavier Roy , Maxen Cosset-Chéneau , Bart J. van Wees

Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vahid Derakhshan , Hosein Cheraghchi

The emergence of topological order in graphene is in great demand for the realization of quantum spin Hall states. Recently, it is theoretically proposed that the spin textures of surface states in topological insulator can be directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Liang Zhang , Ben-Chuan Lin , Yan-Fei Wu , Jun Xu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic metals into graphene is hindered by the impedance mismatch between the two materials. This problem can be reduced by the introduction of a thin tunnel barrier at the interface. We present room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 C. Józsa , M. Popinciuc , N. Tombros , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

Very recently, a new two-dimensional graphene-like topological insulator, Bi14Rh3I9, has been synthesized. The Bi-Rh sheets with a strong spin-orbit interaction are graphene analogues with a honeycomb net composed of RhBi8 cubes. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-07 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

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…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a platform for developing novel spintronic devices and circuits for low-power electronics. In particular, inducing magnetism and injecting spins in graphene have promised the emerging field of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Junxiong Hua , Jiangbo Luo , Yuntian Zheng , Jiayu Chen , Ganesh Ji Omar , Andrew Thye Shen Wee , A. Ariando

Recent demonstrations of magnetic ordering and spin transport in two-dimensional heterostructures have opened research venues in these material systems. In order to control and enhance the related physical phenomena, quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jonathan J. Heath , Marcio Costa , Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli , Marcelo A. Kuroda

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) realizes a highly tunable, strongly interacting system featuring superconductivity and various correlated insulating states. We establish gate-defined wires in TBG with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Alex Thomson , Ina Sorensen , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea

The coherent spin-polarized electron transport through a zigzag-edge graphene flake (ZGF), sandwiched between two semi-infinite armchair graphene nanoribbons, is investigated by means of Landauer-Buttiker formalism. To study the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Saffarzadeh , R. Farghadan

The recent discovery of two-dimensional magnetic insulators has generated a great deal of excitement over their potential for nanoscale manipulation of spin or magnetism. One intriguing use for these materials is to put them in contact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Aron W. Cummings

We study the spin dynamics of a ferromagnetic insulator on which graphene is placed. We show that the Gilbert damping is enhanced by the proximity exchange coupling at the interface. The modulation of the Gilbert damping constant is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

Two dimensional (2D) materials provide a unique platform to explore the full potential of magnetic proximity driven phenomena, which can be further used for applications in next generation spintronic devices. Of particular interest is to…

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald