• 文献标题:   Scattering of Magnons at Graphene Quantum-Hall-Magnet Junctions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WEI NM, HUANG CL, MACDONALD AH
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.117203
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Motivated by recent nonlocal transport studies of quantum-Hall-magnet (QHM) states formed in monolayer graphene's N = 0 Landau level, we study the scattering of QHM magnons by gate-controlled junctions between states with different integer filling factors nu. For the nu = 1 vertical bar-1 vertical bar 1 geometry we find that magnons are weakly scattered by electric potential variation in the junction region, and that the scattering is chiral when the junction lacks a mirror symmetry. For the nu = 1 vertical bar 0 vertical bar 1 geometry, we find that kinematic constraints completely block magnon transmission if the incident angle exceeds a critical value. Our results explain the suppressed nonlocal-voltage signals observed in the nu = 1 vertical bar 0 vertical bar 1 case. We use our theory to propose that valley waves generated at nu = -1 vertical bar 1 junctions and magnons can be used in combination to probe the spin or valley flavor structure of QHM states at integer and fractional filling factors.