• 文献标题:   Rashba spin-orbit interaction enhanced by graphene in-plane deformations
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BERCHE B, MIRELES F, MEDINA E
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, spincurrent, spinorbit interaction
  • 出版物名称:   CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1607-324X EI 2224-9079
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Lorraine
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.5488/CMP.20.13702
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphene consists in a single-layer carbon crystal where 2pz electrons display a linear dispersion relation in the vicinity of the Fermi level, conveniently described by a massless Dirac equation in 2 + 1 spacetime. Spin-orbit effects open a gap in the band structure and offer perspectives for the manipulation of the conducting electrons spin. Ways to manipulate spin-orbit couplings in graphene have been generally assessed by proximity effects to metals that do not compromise the mobility of the unperturbed system and are likely to induce strain in the graphene layer. In this work we explore the U(1) X SU(2) gauge 1 Fields that result from the uniform stretching of a graphene sheet under a perpendicular electric 1 eld. Considering such deformations is particularly relevant due to the counter-intuitive enhancement of the Rashba coupling between 30-50% for small bond deformations well known from tight-binding and DFT calculations. We report the accessible changes that can be operated in the band structure in the vicinity of the K points as a function of the deformation strength and direction.