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自旋轨道耦合引起的磁电力矩和边缘电流

Magnetoelectric torque and edge currents caused by spin-orbit coupling

Wei Chen, Manfred Sigrist

摘要:

使用紧束缚模型,我们阐述了以前发现的平面外极化的螺旋边缘自旋电流所造成的Rashba自旋轨道耦合可以归因于这样一个事实,即在一个带几何形状,一个积极的动量本征态并不总是有相同的自旋极化在边缘作为相应的负动量本征态。此外,在存在垂直于边缘指向的磁化时,产生边缘电荷电流,其可以是手性的或非手性的,这取决于磁化是位于平面内还是平面外。边缘附近的自旋极化产生了与磁化强度正交的横向分量,这在两个边缘之间是反对称的,并且倾向于导致两个边缘之间的非共线磁序。如果磁化仅占据一个边缘附近的区域,或者在不规则形状的量子点中,则该横向分量具有非零平均值,从而在不需要偏置电压的情况下呈现栅极电压感应的磁电转矩。我们还认为,其他类型的自旋轨道耦合,可以从Rashba型通过幺正变换,如Dresselhaus自旋轨道耦合,将有类似的效果了。

英文摘要:

Using a tight-biding model, we elaborate that the previously discovered out-of-plane polarized helical edge spin current caused by Rashba spin-orbit coupling can be attributed to the fact that in a strip geometry, a positive momentum eigenstate does not always have the same spin polarization at the edge as the corresponding negative momentum eigenstate. In addition, in the presence of a magnetization pointing perpendicular to the edge, an edge charge current is produced, which can be chiral or nonchiral depending on whether the magnetization lies in-plane or out-of-plane. The spin polarization near the edge develops a transverse component orthogonal to the magnetization, which is antisymmetric between the two edges and tends to cause a noncollinear magnetic order between the two edges. If the magnetization only occupies a region near one edge, or in an irregular shaped quantum dot, this transverse component has a nonzero average, rendering a gate voltage-induced magnetoelectric torque without the need of a bias voltage. We also argue that other types of spin-orbit coupling that can be obtained from the Rashba type through a unitary transformation, such as the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, will have similar effects too.

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