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非对称拓扑绝缘体薄膜在面外磁场中的自旋积累

Spin accumulation in asymmetric topological insulator thin films in out of plane magnetic fields

Zhuo Bin Siu, Debashree Chowdhury, Banasri Basu, Mansoor B. A. Jalil

摘要:

本文研究了非对称拓扑绝缘体(TI)薄膜系统在面外磁场和面内磁化作用下的面内电场自旋积累。TI薄膜与更典型地研究的厚TI系统的不同之处在于前者具有顶表面和底表面,其中由于有限厚度,位于两个表面处的状态可以彼此耦合。在典型的TI薄膜系统上的自旋扭矩实验中,薄膜的顶表面和底表面是不对称的,因为前者与铁磁层接触,而后者与非磁性衬底相邻。这可能导致顶表面状态和底表面状态经历的不同的(i)电势和(ii)磁化强度。我们表明,通过Kubo公式计算,这两种效应中的每一种都可以导致垂直于磁化方向的面内自旋积累,否则在上下对称的TI薄膜系统中不存在。这种自旋积累是由于零磁场等能量轮廓周围的自旋积累的反对称性被破坏而产生的。

英文摘要:

In this work we study the spin accumulation due to an in-plane electric field in an asymmetric topological insulator (TI) thin film system with an out of plane magnetic field and an in-plane magnetization. A TI thin film differs from the more typically studied thick TI system in that the former has both a top and a bottom surface where the states localized at both surfaces can couple to each other due to the finite thickness. In typical spin torque experiments on TI thin film systems, the top and bottom surfaces of the film are asymmetric as the former is in contact with a ferromagnetic layer while the latter is adjacent to a non magnetic substrate. This may lead to differing (i) potentials and (ii) magnetization strengths experienced by the top and bottom surface states. We show, via Kubo formula calculations, that each of these two effects can lead to in-plane spin accumulation perpendicular to the magnetization direction which are otherwise absent in a top-bottom symmetric TI thin film system. This spin accumulation results from the breaking of the antisymmetry of the spin accumulation around the zero magnetic field equal energy contours.

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