• 文献标题:   On-Demand Spin-Orbit Interaction from Which-Layer Tunability in Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KHOO JY, MORPURGO AF, LEVITOV L
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, spinorbit interaction, gatetunability, intrinsic valleyhall conductivity, topological phase transition
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03604
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) that is gate-tunable over a broad range is essential to exploiting novel spin phenomena. Achieving this regime has remained elusive because of the weakness of the underlying relativistic coupling and lack of its tunability in solids. Here we outline a general strategy that enables exceptionally high tunability of SOI through creating a which-layer spin-orbit field inhomogeneity in graphene multilayers. An external transverse electric field is applied to shift carriers between the layers with strong and weak SOI. Because graphene layers are separated by subnanometer scales, exceptionally high tunability of SOI can be achieved through a minute carrier displacement. A detailed analysis of the experimentally relevant case of bilayer graphene on a semiconducting transition metal dichalchogenide substrate is presented. In this system, a complete tunability of SOI amounting to its ON/OFF switching can be achieved. New opportunities for spin control are exemplified with electrically driven spin resonance and topological phases with different quantized intrinsic valley Hall conductivities.