• 文献标题:   Pseudospin polarized quantum transport in monolayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MAJIDI L, ZAREYAN M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   IASBS
  • 被引频次:   29
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115422
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry-broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical current switching effect in the pseudospin version of a spin valve in which two pseudoferromagnetic regions are contacted through a normal graphene region. The proposed structure exhibits a pseudomagnetoresistance, defined as the relative difference of resistances of parallel and antiparallel alignments of the pseudomagnetizations, which can be tuned to unity. This perfect pseudomagnetic switching is found to show a strong robustness with respect to increasing the contact length, the effect of which we explain in terms of an unusually long-range penetration of an equilibrium pseudospin polarization into the normal region by proximity to a pseudoferromagnet. Our results reveal the potential of gapped graphene for realization of pseudospin-based nanoelectronics.