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电子波导隧道耦合拓扑绝缘体中的自旋电流

Spin current in an electron waveguide tunnel-coupled to topological insulator

Aleksei A. Sukhanov, Vladimir A. Sablikov

摘要:

我们发现电子从二维拓扑绝缘体的边缘态隧穿到平行电子波导中导致波导中出现自旋极化电流。自旋极化$P$可以非常接近于1,并且通过隧道接触的电子电流在波导中分成从接触流出的两个分支。极化本质上取决于接触的电子散射和一维边缘态中的电子-电子相互作用。在Luttinger液体模型中处理电子-电子相互作用。相互作用的主要效应源于电子速度的重整化,由于这种重整化,极化随着相互作用强度的增加而增加。接触的电子散射导致$P$减小。当改变电压或化学势时,当波导中的子带的底部穿过边缘态谱的狄拉克点时,会发生特定的效应。这导致改变自旋电流的方向。

英文摘要:

We show that electron tunneling from edge states in two-dimensional topological insulator into a parallel electron waveguide leads to the appearance of spin-polarized current in the waveguide. The spin polarization $P$ can be very close to unity and the electron current passing through the tunnel contact splits in the waveguide into two branches flowing from the contact. The polarization essentially depends on the electron scattering by the contact and the electron-electron interaction in the one-dimensional edge states. The electron-electron interaction is treated within the Luttinger liquid model. The main effect of the interaction stems from the renormalization of the electron velocity, due to which the polarization increases with the interaction strength. Electron scattering by the contact leads to a decrease in $P$. A specific effect occurs when the bottom of the subbands in the waveguide crosses the Dirac point of the spectrum of edge states when changing the voltage or chemical potential. This leads to changing the direction of the spin current.

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