• 文献标题:   Ab initio calculation of transverse spin current in graphene nanostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG B, WANG J, GUO H
  • 作者关键词:   ab initio calculation, density functional theory, ferromagnetic material, graphene, green s function method, magnetisation, nanostructured material, spin polarised transport
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hong Kong
  • 被引频次:   37
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.79.165417
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We report a theoretical analysis of transverse spin current in a four-probe graphene nanostructure in the absence of spin-orbit interaction and magnetic field. The nanostructure consists of a finite-size graphene sheet connected to the outside world by two zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNR) and two armchair graphene nanoribbons, forming a cross-shaped two-dimensional device. Due to edge state induced magnetism at zigzag GNR boundaries, our result shows that a pure transverse spin current without an accompanying charge current is induced. We have calculated the transverse spin conductance by an atomic first-principles method where density-functional theory is carried out within the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function framework.