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Unconventional Quantum Hall Effect and Tunable Spin Hall Effect in MoS2 Trilayers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-02-06 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We analyze the Landau level (LL) structure and spin Hall effect in a MoS2 trilayer. Due to orbital asymmetry, the low-energy Dirac fermions become heavily massive and the LL energies grow linearly with BB, rather than with B\sqrt{B}. Spin-orbital couplings break spin and valley degenerate LL's into two time reversal invariant groups, with LL crossing effects present in the valence bands. We find a field-dependent unconventional Hall plateau sequence ν=...\nu=... 2M6-2M-6, 2M4-2M-4, 2M2-2M-2, 2M1-2M-1, ..., -5, -3, -1, 0, 2, 4 .... In a p-n junction, spin-resolved fractionally quantized conductance appears in two-terminal measurements with a controllable spin-polarized current that can be probed at the interface. We also show the tunability of zero-field spin Hall conductivity.

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@article{arxiv.1207.1205,
  title  = {Unconventional Quantum Hall Effect and Tunable Spin Hall Effect in MoS2 Trilayers},
  author = {Xiao Li and Fan Zhang and Qian Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1205},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures

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