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金属中自旋弛豫和横向输运的各向异性

Anisotropy of spin relaxation and transverse transport in metals

Yuriy Mokrousov, Hongbin Zhang, Frank Freimuth, Bernd Zimmermann, Nguyen H. Long, Jürgen Weischenberg, Ivo Souza, Phivos Mavropoulos, Stefan Blügel

摘要:

使用第一性原理方法,我们探索的自旋弛豫和横向输运性质的各向异性块体金属相对于顺磁体或铁磁体的自发磁化的自旋量子化轴的方向。由于自旋-轨道相互作用的存在,布洛赫态的轨道和自旋特性敏感地依赖于自旋相对于晶轴的取向。这导致了依赖于自旋轨道相互作用引起的带间混合的量的急剧变化。各向异性对于在布里渊区中呈现尖峰和不规则分布的量特别引人注目,例如自旋混合参数或电子态的Berry曲率。我们证明了这三种情况:(i)的Elliott-Yafet自旋弛豫机制的结构反转对称性的顺磁体;(ii)在铁磁体的固有异常霍尔效应;(iii)顺磁体的自旋霍尔效应。我们讨论了显着的各向异性行为所显示的自旋极化输运应用程序的这些属性的后果。

英文摘要:

Using first principles methods we explore the anisotropy of the spin relaxation and transverse transport properties in bulk metals with respect to the direction of the spin quantization axis in paramagnets or of the spontaneous magnetization in ferromagnets. Owing to the presence of the spin-orbit interaction the orbital and spin character of the Bloch states depends sensitively on the orientation of the spins relative to the crystal axes. This leads to drastic changes in quantities which rely on interband mixing induced by the spin-orbit interaction. The anisotropy is particularly striking for quantities which exhibit spiky and irregular distribution in the Brillouin zone, such as the spin-mixing parameter or the Berry curvature of the electronic states. We demonstrate this for three cases: (i) the Elliott-Yafet spin-relaxation mechanism in paramagnets with structural inversion symmetry; (ii) the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnets; and (iii) the spin Hall effect in paramagnets. We discuss the consequences of the pronounced anisotropic behavior displayed by these properties for spin-polarized transport applications.

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