• 文献标题:   Graphene with structure-induced spin-orbit coupling: Spin-polarized states, spin zero modes, and quantum Hall effect
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RASHBA EI
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, landau level, magnetisation, quantum hall effect, spin polarised transport, spinorbit interaction
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Harvard Univ
  • 被引频次:   136
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.79.161409
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

Spin splitting of the energy spectrum of single-layer graphene on Au/Ni(111) substrate has been recently reported. I show that eigenstates of spin-orbit coupled graphene are polarized in-plane and are perpendicular to electron momentum k; the magnitude of spin polarization S vanishes when k -> 0. In a perpendicular magnetic field B, S is parallel to B, and two zero modes emerge in the Landau level spectrum. Singular B dependence of their magnetization suggests existence of a new variety of magnetic instability. They also manifest themselves in a new variety of unconventional quantum Hall effect.