Tailoring emergent spin phenomena in Dirac material heterostructures
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in van der Waals heterostructures to demonstrate the emergence of a strong proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene. By performing spin transport and precession measurements supported by ab initio simulations, we discover a strong tunability and suppression of the spin signal and spin lifetime due to the hybridization of graphene and TI electronic bands. The enhanced spin-orbit coupling strength is estimated to be nearly an order of magnitude higher than in pristine graphene. These findings in graphene-TI heterostructures could open interesting opportunities for exploring exotic physical phenomena and new device functionalities governed by topological proximity effects.

Författare

Dmitrii Khokhriakov

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Aron W. Cummings

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Kenan Song

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Marc Vila

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Bogdan Karpiak

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

André Dankert

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Stephan Roche

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats

Saroj Prasad Dash

Chalmers grafencentrum

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Science advances

2375-2548 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 9 aat9349

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

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DOI

10.1126/sciadv.aat9349

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