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Dirac材料Sr $_3$ SnO中自旋-轨道纠缠引起的鲁棒弱反定域

Robust weak antilocalization due to spin-orbital entanglement in Dirac material Sr$_3$SnO

H. Nakamura, D. Huang, J. Merz, E. Khalaf, P. Ostrovsky, A. Yaresko, D. Samal, H. Takagi

摘要:

在固体中同时存在反转($P$)和时间反转($T$)对称性导致了电子能带的双简并性(Kramers简并性)。当简并度被提升时,自旋纹理可以在动量空间中直接观察到,如在拓扑绝缘体或强Rashba材料中。然而,Kramers简并的自旋织构的存在是很难直接观察到的。在这里,我们使用量子干涉测量结合第一性原理能带结构计算,以提供证据的反钙钛矿型三维狄拉克材料Sr $_3$ SnO的自旋和动量之间的隐藏纠缠的存在。我们发现强大的弱反本地化(WAL)独立的位置的$E_\mathrm{F}$。在低掺杂下观察到的WAL信号使用单个干涉通道拟合,这意味着不同的狄拉克谷被无序混合。值得注意的是,这种混合不会抑制WAL,这表明与石墨烯相比,干涉物理学形成对比。我们确定轴向自旋动量锁定状态之间的散射作为一个关键的过程,导致自旋轨道纠缠,从而产生强大的WAL。我们的工作揭示了自旋和赝自旋的微妙作用,当两者都可以有助于相同的量子效应。

英文摘要:

The presence of both inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries in solids leads to a well-known double degeneracy of the electronic bands (Kramers degeneracy). When the degeneracy is lifted, spin textures can be directly observed in momentum space, as in topological insulators or in strong Rashba materials. The existence of spin textures with Kramers degeneracy, however, is very difficult to observe directly. Here, we use quantum interference measurements combined with first-principle band structure calculations to provide evidence for the existence of hidden entanglement between spin and momentum in the antiperovskite-type 3D Dirac material Sr$_3$SnO. We find robust weak antilocalization (WAL) independent of the position of $E_\mathrm{F}$. The observed WAL signal at low doping is fitted using a single interference channel, which implies that the different Dirac valleys are mixed by disorder. Notably, this mixing does not suppress WAL, suggesting contrasting interference physics compared to graphene. We identify scattering among axially spin-momentum locked states as a key process that leads to a spin-orbital entanglement, giving rise to robust WAL. Our work sheds light on the subtle role of spin and pseudospin, when both could contribute to the same quantum effect.

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