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arXiv 2002.04773cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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半谷金属概念与量子反常谷霍尔效应

Concept of the half-valley-metal and quantum anomalous valley Hall effect

He Hu, Wen-Yi Tong, Yu-Hao Shen, Xiangang Wan, Chun-Gang Duan

摘要:

谷是电子能带结构在动量空间的能量极值,被认为是电子除了电荷和自旋之外的一个新的自由度。对谷自由度的研究形成了凝聚态物理的一个新兴领域,即谷电子学。谷电子学的发展与以自旋自由度为中心的自旋电子学的发展相一致。在这里,在类比半金属自旋电子学中的一个自旋通道是导电的,而另一个是绝缘的,我们提出了半谷金属的概念,其中传导电子本质上是100%的谷极化,以及100%的自旋极化,即使考虑自旋轨道相互作用。结合第一性原理计算和双带kp模型,阐明了半谷金属形成的物理机制。以具有强交换作用的铁谷H-FeCl_2单分子膜为例,我们发现强电子关联效应可以诱导铁谷到半谷-金属的转变。由于谷依赖的光学选择规则,这样的系统对于例如,左旋偏振光,而右旋偏振光将被反射,这反过来又可以用作检测半谷金属态的关键方法。此外,我们还发现,在这样得到的半谷金属态,导电谷演示狄拉克锥状的线性能量色散。有趣的是,随着关联效应的增加,系统又变得绝缘,所有的谷都遵循相同的光学选择规则。我们证实了在这种特殊情况下,由单自旋组成的价带具有非零的陈氏数,从而出现了本征量子反常谷霍尔效应。我们的研究结果打开了一个有吸引力的路线走向功能的2D材料设计的valleytronics。

英文摘要:

Valley, the energy extrema in the electronic band structure at momentum space, is regarded as a new degree of freedom of electrons, in addition to charge and spin. The studies focused on valley degree of freedom now form an emerging field of condensed matter physics, i.e. valleytronics, whose development is exactly following that of spintronics which focuses on the spin degree of freedom. Here, in analogy to half-metals in spintronics with one spin channel is conducting whereas the other is insulating, we propose the concept of half-valley-metal, in which conduction electrons are intrinsically 100% valley polarized, as well as 100% spin-polarized even when spin-orbit interactions are considered. Combining first-principles calculations with two-band kp model, the physical mechanism to form the half-valley-metal is illuminated. Taking the ferrovalley H-FeCl2 monolayer with strong exchange interaction as an example, we find that the strong electron correlation effect can induce the ferrovalley to half-valley-metal transition. Due to the valley-dependent optical selection rules, such system could be transparent to, e.g., left-circularly polarized light, yet the right-circularly polarized light will be reflected, which can in turn be used as a crucial method to detect half-valley-metal state. In addition, we find that in the so obtained half-valley-metal state, the conduction valley demonstrates Dirac cone-like linear energy dispersion. Interestingly, with the increase of the correlation effect, the system becomes insulating again with all valleys follow same optical selection rule. We confirm that in this specific case, the valence bands, which consist of single spin, possess non-zero Chern number and consequently intrinsic quantum anomalous valley Hall effect emerges. Our findings open an appealing route toward functional 2D materials design of valleytronics.

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