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波纹石墨烯中的自旋弛豫

Spin relaxation in corrugated graphene

I. M. Vicent, H. Ochoa, F. Guinea

摘要:

在石墨烯中,由衬底施加的平面外(弯曲)振动和静态波纹使电子自旋松弛,本质上受到镜像对称性的保护。我们计算了弛豫时间在不同的情况下,占所有可能的自旋-声子耦合所允许的六角形对称的晶格。弯曲声子的散射对自旋寿命施加了极限约束,在室温下大约为数百纳秒。这种估计和作为载流子浓度的函数的行为基本上被张力的存在或与衬底的钉扎所改变。静态波纹也影响自旋输运的扩散制度,占主导地位的运动收窄。我们发现,D 'yakonov-Perel'机制饱和时,平均自由程是可比的高度配置文件的相关长度。在这种情况下,自旋弛豫时间完全由波纹的几何形状决定。典型波纹的简单模型导致几十微秒量级的寿命。

英文摘要:

In graphene, out-of-plane (flexural) vibrations and static ripples imposed by the substrate relax the electron spin, intrinsically protected by mirror symmetry. We calculate the relaxation times in different scenarios, accounting for all the possible spin-phonon couplings allowed by the hexagonal symmetry of the lattice. Scattering by flexural phonons imposes the ultimate bound to the spin lifetimes, in the ballpark of hundreds of nano-seconds at room temperature. This estimate and the behavior as a function of the carrier concentration are substantially altered by the presence of tensions or the pinning with the substrate. Static ripples also influence the spin transport in the diffusive regime, dominated by motional narrowing. We find that the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism saturates when the mean free path is comparable to the correlation length of the heights profile. In this regime, the spin-relaxation times are exclusively determined by the geometry of the corrugations. Simple models for typical corrugations lead to lifetimes of the order of tens of micro-seconds.

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