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López, Alexander ; Sun, Z. Z. ; Schliemann, John

Floquet spin states in graphene under ac driven spin-orbit interaction

López, Alexander , Sun, Z. Z. and Schliemann, John (2012) Floquet spin states in graphene under ac driven spin-orbit interaction. Phys. Rev. B 85, p. 205428.

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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.24543

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Abstract

We study the role of periodically driven time-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) on a monolayer graphene sample. After recasting the originally $4\times 4$ system of dynamical equations as two time-reversal related two-level problems, the quasi-energy spectrum and the related dynamics are investigated via various techniques and approximations. In the static case the system is a gapped at ...

We study the role of periodically driven time-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) on a monolayer graphene sample. After recasting the originally $4\times 4$ system of dynamical equations as two time-reversal related two-level problems, the quasi-energy spectrum and the related dynamics are investigated via various techniques and approximations. In the static case the system is a gapped at the Dirac point. The rotating wave approximation (RWA) applied to the driven system unphysically preserves this feature, while the Magnus-Floquet approach as well as a numerically exact evaluation of the Floquet equation show that this gap is dynamically closed. In addition, a sizable oscillating pattern of the out-of-plane spin polarization is found in the driven case for states which completely unpolarized in the static limit. Evaluation of the autocorrelation function shows that the original uniform interference pattern corresponding to time-independent RSOC gets distorted. The resulting structure can be qualitatively explained as a consequence of the transitions induced by the ac driving among the static eigenstates, i.e., these transitions modulate the relative phases that add up to give the quantum revivals of the autocorrelation function. Contrary to the static case, in the driven scenario, quantum revivals (suppresions) are correlated to spin up (down) phases.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhys. Rev. B
Publisher:American Physical Society
Volume:85
Page Range:p. 205428
Date15 May 2012
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Grifoni > Group John Schliemann
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10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205428DOI
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-245437
Item ID24543

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