• 文献标题:   Curvature-induced spin-orbit coupling and spin relaxation in a chemically clean single-layer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JEONG JS, SHIN J, LEE HW
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Inst Adv Study
  • 被引频次:   30
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195457
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

The study of spin-related phenomena in materials requires knowledge of the precise form of effective spin-orbit coupling for conducting carriers in solid-state systems. We demonstrate theoretically that curvature induced by corrugations or periodic ripples in single-layer graphenes generates two types of effective spin-orbit couplings. In addition to the spin-orbit coupling reported previously that couples with sublattice pseudospin and corresponds to the Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in a corrugated single-layer graphene, there is an additional spin-orbit coupling that does not couple with the pseudospin, which can not be obtained from the extension of the curvature-induced spin-orbit coupling of carbon nanotubes. Via numerical calculation we show that both types of the curvature-induced spin-orbit coupling make the same order of contribution to spin relaxation in chemically clean single-layer graphene with nanoscale corrugation. The spin-relaxation dependence on the corrugation roughness is also studied.