Control of spin diffusion and suppression of the Hanle oscillation by the coexistence of spin and valley Hall effects in Dirac materials

Xian Peng Zhang; Chunli Huang; Miguel A. Cazalilla

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.245106

Control of spin diffusion and suppression of the Hanle oscillation by the coexistence of spin and valley Hall effects in Dirac materials

Xian Peng Zhang, Chunli Huang, Miguel A. Cazalilla

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Abstract

In addition to spin, electrons in many Dirac materials possess an additional pseudospin degree of freedom known as "valley." In materials where the spin and valley degrees of freedom are weakly coupled, they can be both excited and controlled independently. In this work, we study a model describing the interplay of the spin and valley Hall effects in such two-dimensional materials. We demonstrate the emergence of an additional longitudinal neutral current that is both spin and valley polarized. The additional neutral current allows to control the spin density by tuning the magnitude of the valley Hall effect. In addition, the interplay of the two effects can suppress the Hanle oscillation, that is, the oscillation of the nonlocal resistance of a Hall bar device with in-plane magnetic field. The latter observation provides a possible explanation for the absence of the Hanle oscillation in a number of recent experiments. Our work also opens the possibility to engineer the conversion between the valley and spin degrees of freedom in two-dimensional materials.

Original language	English
Article number	245106
Journal	Physical Review B
Volume	99
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.245106
State	Published - Jun 5 2019

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This work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) under Contracts No. 102-2112-M-007-024-MY5 and No. CL 107-2112-M-007-021-MY5 (M.A.C. and C.H.), the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) under Projects No. FIS2014-55987-P and No. FIS2017-82804-P (X.-P.Z. and C.H.), and Taiwan's National Center of Theoretical Sciences (M.A.C. and C.H.). C.H. was supported in part by DOE Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-FG02-02ER45958 and also acknowledges funding by Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) through Project No. 107-2917-I-564-009. We thank F. Guinea, A. Kaverzin, and R. Stephen for useful discussions.

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