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Intensive research has focused on harnessing the potential of graphene for electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices by generating a bandgap at the Dirac point and enhancing the spin-orbit interaction in the graphene layer.…

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…

Proximity effects are one of the pillars of exotic phenomena and technological applications of two dimensional materials. However, the interactions nature depends strongly on the materials involved, their crystalline symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Armando Pezo , Zeila Zanolli , Nils Wittemeier , Pablo Ordejon , Adalberto Fazzio , Stephan Roche , Jose H. Garcia

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

In graphene, we report the first theoretical demonstration of how the intrinsic spin orbit interaction can be deduced from the theory and how it can be controlled by tuning a uniform magnetic field, and/or by changing the strength of a long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 B. S. Kandemir

We studied how the electron-electron (e-e) interaction enhances the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and opens the possibility of generating a spin-polarized output current from an unpolarized electric current without any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 R. Farghadan , A. Sehat

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim

The helicity of 3D topological insulator surface states has drawn significant attention in spintronics owing to spin-momentum locking where the carriers' spin is oriented perpendicular to their momentum. This property can provide an…

In this article, the modified Kane-Mele Hamiltonian is derived for graphene with wedge disclination and spin orbit couplings (intrinsic and Rashba). The wedge disclination changes the flat lattice into the conical lattice and hence modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tarun Choudhari , Nivedita Deo

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

Functional oxides and hybrid structures with interfacial spin orbit coupling and the Rashba-Edelsterin effect (REE) are promising materials systems for thermal tolerance spintronic device applications. Here, we demonstrate efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Mi-Jin Jin , Guang Yang , Doo-Seung Um , Jacob Linder , Jason W. A. Robinson

The observation of micron size spin relaxation makes graphene a promising material for applications in spintronics requiring long distance spin communication. However, spin dependent scatterings at the contact/graphene interfaces affect the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 Ahmet Avsar , Dmitrii Unuchek , Jiawei Liu , Oriol Lopez Sanchez , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Barbaros Ozyilmaz , Andras Kis

We theoretically investigate the spin-charge transport in two-terminal device of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of an uniform uniaxial strain, spin-orbit coupling, exchange field and smooth staggered potential. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Ginetom S. Diniz , Marcos R. Guassi , Fanyao Qu

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

Van der Waals interactions with transition metal dichalcogenides was shown to induce strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene, offering great promises to combine large experimental flexibility of graphene with unique tuning capabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Qing Rao , Wun-Hao Kang , Hongxia Xue , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ning Wang , Ming-Hao Liu , Dong-Keun Ki

In the current work we have investigated the influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on spin-current of a single layer gapped graphene. It was shown that the Rashba coupling has a considerable role in generation of the spin-current of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 K. Hasanirokh , J. Azizi , A. Phirouznia , H. Mohammadpour

Spin Hall effects have surged as promising phenomena for spin logics operations without ferromagnets. However, the magnitude of the detected electric signals at room temperature in metallic systems has been so far underwhelming. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 W. Savero Torres , J. F. Sierra , L. A. Benítez , F. Bonell , M. V. Costache , S. O. Valenzuela

The ability to engineer new states of matter and to control their electronic and spintronic properties by electric fields is at the heart of the modern information technology and driving force behind recent advances in van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Anamul Md. Hoque , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Bogdan Karpiak , Saroj P. Dash

Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures can be described theoretically in terms of the propagation and scattering of electron probability waves. Within this approach, elements of a phase-coherent electric circuit play a role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-18 U. Zuelicke , A. I. Signal

We study graphene ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) nanostructures via a microscopic self-consistent Dirac Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism. We show that as a result of proximity effects, experimentally accessible spin switching…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-05 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Mohammad Alidoust