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Au(111)表面的非平衡自旋输运

Nonequilibrium spin transport on Au(111) surfaces

Ming-Hao Liu, Son-Hsien Chen, Ching-Ray Chang

摘要:

在考虑$p_{z}$ -轨道和最近邻跃迁的二维六角晶格的情况下,用有效紧束缚模型完全拟合了实验上观察到的具有Rashba自旋分裂的\textit{sp}衍生的Au(111)Shockley表面态.然后将提取的能带参数导入Landauer-Keldysh公式,计算了Au(111)表面沟道双端体系中的非平衡自旋输运.所得结果显示Au(111)表面上的强自旋密度,并证实(i)固有自旋霍尔效应,(ii)电流诱导自旋极化,和(iii)Rashba自旋进动,所有这些都已在半导体异质结构中实验观察到,但在金属表面态中没有。因此,我们强烈要求在后一种情况下对这些自旋现象进行实验。

英文摘要:

The well-known experimentally observed \textit{sp}-derived Au(111) Shockley surface states with Rashba spin splitting are perfectly fit by an effective tight-binding model, considering a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with $p_{z}$-orbital and nearest neighbor hopping only. The extracted realistic band parameters are then imported to perform the Landauer-Keldysh formalism to calculate nonequilibrium spin transport in a two-terminal setup sandwiching a Au(111) surface channel. Obtained results show strong spin density on the Au(111) surface and demonstrate (i) intrinsic spin-Hall effect, (ii) current-induced spin polarization, and (iii) Rashba spin precession, all of which have been experimentally observed in semiconductor heterostructures, but not in metallic surface states. We therefore urge experiments in the latter for these spin phenomena.

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