• 文献标题:   Graphene with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and coupling to a magnetic layer: Electron states localized at the domain wall
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   INGLOT M, DUGAEV VK, DYRDAL A, BARNAS J
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.104.214408
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Electron states localized at a magnetic domain wall in a graphene with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and coupled to a magnetic layer are studied theoretically. It is shown that two one-dimensional bands of edge modes propagating along the domain wall emerge in the energy gap for each Dirac point, and the modes associated with different Dirac points K and K' are the same. The coefficients describing decay of the corresponding wave functions with distance from the domain wall contain generally real and imaginary terms. Numerical results on the local spin density and on the total spin expected in the edge states characterized by the wave number k(y) are presented and discussed. The Chern number for a single magnetic domain on graphene indicates that the system is in the quantum anomalous Hall phase, with two chiral modes at the edges. In turn, the number of modes localized at the domain wall is determined by the difference in Chern numbers on both sides of the wall. These numbers are equal to 2 and -2, respectively, so there are four modes localized at the domain wall.