• 文献标题:   Influence of Impurity Spin Dynamics on Quantum Transport in Epitaxial Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LARAAVILA S, KUBATKIN S, KASHUBA O, FOLK JA, LUSCHER S, YAKIMOVA R, JANSSEN TJBM, TZALENCHUK A, FAL KO V
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chalmers
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.106602
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Experimental evidence from both spin-valve and quantum transport measurements points towards unexpectedly fast spin relaxation in graphene. We report magnetotransport studies of epitaxial graphene on SiC in a vector magnetic field showing that spin relaxation, detected using weak-localization analysis, is suppressed by an in-plane magnetic field B-parallel to, and thereby proving that it is caused at least in part by spinful scatterers. A nonmonotonic dependence of the effective decoherence rate on B-parallel to reveals the intricate role of the scatterers' spin dynamics in forming the interference correction to the conductivity, an effect that has gone unnoticed in earlier weak localization studies.