35 research outputs found
Graphene for spintronics: giant Rashba splitting due to hybridization with Au
Graphene in spintronics has so far primarily meant spin current leads of high
performance because the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling of its pi-electrons is
very weak. If a large spin-orbit coupling could be created by a proximity
effect, the material could also form active elements of a spintronic device
such as the Das-Datta spin field-effect transistor, however, metal interfaces
often compromise the band dispersion of massless Dirac fermions. Our
measurements show that Au intercalation at the graphene-Ni interface creates a
giant spin-orbit splitting (~100 meV) in the graphene Dirac cone up to the
Fermi energy. Photoelectron spectroscopy reveals hybridization with Au-5d
states as the source for the giant spin-orbit splitting. An ab initio model of
the system shows a Rashba-split dispersion with the analytically predicted
gapless band topology around the Dirac point of graphene and indicates that a
sharp graphene-Au interface at equilibrium distance will account for only ~10
meV spin-orbit splitting. The ab initio calculations suggest an enhancement due
to Au atoms that get closer to the graphene and do not violate the sublattice
symmetry.Comment: 16 pages (3 figures) + supplementary information 16 pages (14
figures
Pumped double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling
We study driven by an external electric field quantum orbital and spin dynamics of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. Two types of external perturbation are considered: a periodic field at the Zeeman frequency and a single half-period pulse. Spin-orbit coupling leads to a nontrivial evolution in the spin and orbital channels and to a strongly spin- dependent probability density distribution. Both the interdot tunneling and the driven motion contribute into the spin evolution. These results can be important for the design of the spin manipulation schemes in semiconductor nanostructures
Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry
We analyze a simple extension of the standard model (SM) with a dark sector composed of a scalar and a fermion, both singlets under the SM gauge group but charged under a dark sector symmetry group. Sterile neutrinos, which are singlets under both groups, mediate the interactions between the dark sector and the SM particles, and generate masses for the active neutrinos via the seesaw mechanism. We explore the parameter space region where the observed Dark Matter relic abundance is determined by the annihilation into sterile neutrinos, both for fermion and scalar Dark Matter particles. The scalar Dark Matter case provides an interesting alternative to the usual Higgs portal scenario. We also study the constraints from direct Dark Matter searches and the prospects for indirect detection via sterile neutrino decays to leptons, which may be able to rule out Dark Matter masses below and around 100 GeV
Understanding the Spin Transport in H2O-Adsorbed Graphene-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junction
Stimulation of a Singlet Superconductivity in SFS Weak Links by Spin-Exchange Scattering of Cooper Pairs
Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic metal weak link reveal a very strong decrease of the critical current compared to a normal metal weak link. We demonstrate that in the ballistic regime the presence of a small region with a non-collinear magnetization near the center of a ferromagnetic weak link restores the critical current inherent to the normal metal. The above effect can be stimulated by additional electrical bias of the magnetic gate which induces a local electron depletion of ferromagnetic barrier. The underlying physics of the effect is the interference phenomena due to the magnetic scattering of the Cooper pair, which reverses its total momentum in the ferromagnet and thus compensates the phase gain before and after the spin-reversed scattering. In contrast with the widely discussed triplet long ranged proximity effect we elucidate a new singlet long ranged proximity effect. This phenomenon opens a way to easily control the properties of SFS junctions and inversely to manipulate the magnetic moment via the Josephson current.Etats de Majorana et d'Andreev dans des circuits hybrides combinant des matériaux magnétiques et supraconducteursNew Century of Superconductivity: Ideas, Materials, Technologie