• 文献标题:   Multiple Quantum Phases in Graphene with Enhanced Spin-Orbit Coupling: From the Quantum Spin Hall Regime to the Spin Hall Effect and a Robust Metallic State
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CRESTI A, TUAN VD, SORIANO D, CUMMINGS AW, ROCHE S
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Grenoble Alpes
  • 被引频次:   26
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.246603
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We report an intriguing transition from the quantum spin Hall phase to the spin Hall effect upon segregation of thallium adatoms adsorbed onto a graphene surface. Landauer-Buttiker and Kubo-Greenwood simulations are used to access both edge and bulk transport physics in disordered thallium-functionalized graphene systems of realistic sizes. Our findings not only quantify the detrimental effects of adatom clustering in the formation of the topological state, but also provide evidence for the emergence of spin accumulation at opposite sample edges driven by spin-dependent scattering induced by thallium islands, which eventually results in a minimum bulk conductivity similar to 4e(2)/h, insensitive to localization effects.