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5d过渡金属薄膜的自旋弛豫和自旋霍尔输运

Spin relaxation and spin Hall transport in 5d transition-metal ultrathin films

Nguyen H. Long, Phivos Mavropoulos, Bernd Zimmermann, David S. G. Bauer, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov

摘要:

研究了自吸附原子杂质作为散射体的5d过渡金属薄膜中由Elliott-Yafet机制引起的自旋弛豫和由斜散射引起的非本征自旋霍尔电导.的埃利奥特-Yafet参数和自旋翻转弛豫速率的值揭示了一个相互关联,这是在与埃利奥特近似。在10层的厚度,自旋翻转弛豫时间在5d过渡金属薄膜的定量报告约几百纳秒的原子百分比,这是一个和两个数量级短于Au和Cu薄膜,分别。的Elliott-Yafet参数和自旋翻转弛豫速率相对于自旋量子化轴的方向在相对于晶轴的各向异性效应进行了分析。我们发现由于费米面上的Rashba表面态,自旋翻转弛豫速率的各向异性增强,在10层Hf(0001)膜中达到97%,在10层W(110)膜中达到71%。最后,自旋霍尔电导率以及自旋霍尔角由于斜散射的自吸附原子杂质使用玻尔兹曼方法计算。我们的计算采用相对论版本的第一性原理全势Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker格林函数方法。

英文摘要:

The spin relaxation induced by the Elliott-Yafet mechanism and the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity due to the skew-scattering are investigated in 5d transition-metal ultrathin films with self-adatom impurities as scatterers. The values of the Elliott-Yafet parameter and of the spin-flip relaxation rate reveal a correlation with each other that is in agreement with the Elliott approximation. At 10-layer thickness, the spin-flip relaxation time in 5d transition-metal films is quantitatively reported about few hundred nanoseconds at atomic percent which is one and two orders of magnitude shorter than that in Au and Cu thin films, respectively. The anisotropy effect of the Elliott-Yafet parameter and of the spin-flip relaxation rate with respect to the direction of the spin-quantization axis in relation to the crystallographic axes is also analyzed. We find that the anisotropy of the spin-flip relaxation rate is enhanced due to the Rashba surface states on the Fermi surface, reaching values as high as 97% in 10-layer Hf(0001) film or 71% in 10-layer W(110) film. Finally, the spin Hall conductivity as well as the spin Hall angle due to the skew-scattering off self-adatom impurities are calculated using the Boltzmann approach. Our calculations employ a relativistic version of the first-principles full-potential Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method.

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