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Intrinsic spin-Hall accumulation in honeycomb lattices: Band structure effects
Liu, Ming-Hao, Bihlmayer, Gustav, Blügel, Stefan and Chang, Ching-Ray (2007) Intrinsic spin-Hall accumulation in honeycomb lattices: Band structure effects. Physical Review B (PRB) 76 (12), 121301(R).Date of publication of this fulltext: 22 Jun 2011 06:25
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.21276
Abstract
Local spin and charge densities on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice are calculated by the Landauer-Keldysh formalism (LKF). Through the empirical tight-binding method, we show how the realistic band structure can be brought into the LKF. Taking the Bi(111) surface, on which strong surface states and Rashba spin-orbit coupling are present [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 046403 (2004)], as a numeric ...
Local spin and charge densities on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice are calculated by the Landauer-Keldysh formalism (LKF). Through the empirical tight-binding method, we show how the realistic band structure can be brought into the LKF. Taking the Bi(111) surface, on which strong surface states and Rashba spin-orbit coupling are present [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 046403 (2004)], as a numeric example, we show typical intrinsic spin-Hall accumulation (ISHA) patterns thereon. The Fermi-energy-dependence of the spin and charge transport in two-terminal nanostructure samples is subsequently analyzed. By changing EF, we show that the ISHA pattern is nearly isotropic (free-electron-like) only when EF is close to the band bottom, and is sensitive/insensitive to EF for the low/high bias regime with such EF. With EF far from the band bottom, band structure effects thus enter the ISHA patterns and the transport direction becomes significant.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B (PRB) | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||
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| Open Access Type: | Due to SHERPA/RoMEO | ||||||
| Volume: | 76 | ||||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 12 | ||||||
| Page Range: | 121301(R) | ||||||
| Date | 5 September 2007 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter | ||||||
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | No | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-212760 | ||||||
| Item ID | 21276 |
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