Publication Date:
2016-02-12
Description:
Author(s): H.-Y. Yang, Chunli Huang, H. Ochoa, and M. A. Cazalilla The study of the spin Hall effect in graphene is an active field of research, but its experimental realization is proven to be difficult due to the inherently weak intrinsic spin-orbit interaction. Thus, one needs to rely on extrinsic spin-orbit scattering to be able to probe this effect in graphene. The authors of this paper have reported some progress in this direction. They predict that adatoms on graphene can induce an anisotropic Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the degree of anisotropy has a noticeable effect on the energy dependence of the spin Hall angle. [Phys. Rev. B 93, 085418] Published Thu Feb 11, 2016
Keywords:
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
Print ISSN:
1098-0121
Electronic ISSN:
1095-3795
Topics:
Physics
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