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Liu, Ming-Hao ; Bihlmayer, Gustav ; Blügel, Stefan ; Chang, Ching-Ray

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 typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review B (PRB)
Publisher:American Physical Society
Open Access Type:Due to SHERPA/RoMEO
Volume:76
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:12
Page Range:121301(R)
Date5 September 2007
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter
Identification Number
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10.1103/PhysRevB.76.121301DOI
arXiv:0707.3626v3arXiv ID
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.121301Publisher
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73.23.−b, 72.25.−b, 71.70.EjPACS
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgNo
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-212760
Item ID21276

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