• 文献标题:   Electrical spin manipulation in graphene nanostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ORTIZ R, GARCIAMARTINEZ NA, LADO JL, FERNANDEZROSSIER J
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Int Iberian Nanotechnol Lab INL
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.97.195425
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

We propose a mechanism to drive singlet-triplet spin transitions electrically in a wide class of graphene nanostructures that present pairs of in-gap zero modes, localized at opposite sublattices. Examples are rectangular nanographenes with short zigzag edges, armchair ribbon heterojunctions with topological in-gap states, and graphene islands with sp(3) functionalization. The interplay between the hybridization of zero modes and the Coulomb repulsion leads to symmetric exchange interaction that favors a singlet ground state. Application of an off-plane electric field to the graphene nanostructure generates an additional Rashba spin-orbit coupling, which results in antisymmetric exchange interaction that mixes S = 0 and S = 1 manifolds. We show that modulation in time of either the off-plane electric field or the applied magnetic field permits performing electrically driven spin resonance in a system with very long spin-relaxation times.