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Emergence of radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in twisted van der Waals heterostructures
Frank, Tobias, Faria Junior, Paulo E.
, Zollner, Klaus
and Fabian, Jaroslav
(2024)
Emergence of radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in twisted van der Waals heterostructures.
Physical Review B 109, L241403.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 14 May 2024 10:46
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.58234
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Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a quintessential spin interaction appearing in virtually any electronic heterostructure. Its paradigmatic spin texture in the momentum space forms a tangential vector field. Using first-principles investigations, we demonstrate that in twisted homobilayers and hetero-multilayers, the Rashba coupling can be predominantly radial, parallel to the momentum. Specifically, ...
Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a quintessential spin interaction appearing in virtually any electronic heterostructure. Its paradigmatic spin texture in the momentum space forms a tangential vector field. Using first-principles investigations, we demonstrate that in twisted homobilayers and hetero-multilayers, the Rashba coupling can be predominantly radial, parallel to the momentum. Specifically, we study four experimentally relevant structures: twisted bilayer graphene (Gr), twisted bilayer WSe2, and twisted multilayers WSe2/Gr/WSe2 and WSe2/Gr/Gr/WSe2. We show, that the Rashba spin-orbit field texture in such structures can be controlled by an electric field, allowing to tune it from radial to tangential. Such spin-orbit engineering should be useful for designing novel spin-charge conversion and spin-orbit torque schemes, as well as for controlling correlated phases and superconductivity in van der Waals materials.
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Frank, Tobias, Faria Junior, Paulo E.
, Zollner, Klaus
and Fabian, Jaroslav
(2024)
Emergence of radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in twisted van der Waals heterostructures.
Physical Review B 109, L241403.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||
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| Volume: | 109 | ||||||
| Page Range: | L241403 | ||||||
| Date | 12 June 2024 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian | ||||||
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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 | Yes | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-582342 | ||||||
| Item ID | 58234 |
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