標題: Geometrical spin manipulation in Dirac flakes
作者: Kleftogiannis, Ioannis
Amanatidis, Ilias
電子物理學系
Department of Electrophysics
關鍵字: Dirac materials;quantum transport;spin-orbit coupling;edge states
公開日期: 3-二月-2016
摘要: We investigate numerically the spin properties of electrons in flakes made of materials described by the Dirac equation, in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We show that electrons flowing along the borders of flakes via edge states become helically spin-polarized for strong SOC, for materials with and without a gap at the Fermi energy, corresponding to the massive and massless Dirac equation respectively. The helically spin-polarized electrons create spin-resolved transport, controlled by the flake\'s geometry in a multi-terminal device setup. A simple analytical model containing the basic ingredients of the problem is introduced to get an insight into the helical mechanism, along with our numerical results which are based on an effective tight-binding model.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/28/4/045305
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/129636
ISSN: 0953-8984
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/4/045305
期刊: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume: 28
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