Giant valley-polarized spin splittings in magnetized Janus Pt dichalcogenidesShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 105, no 4, article id L041402Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We reveal giant proximity-induced magnetism and valley-polarization effects in Janus Pt dichalcogenides (such as SPtSe), when bound to the europium oxide (EuO) substrate. Using first-principles simulations, it is surprisingly found that the charge redistribution, resulting from proximity with EuO, leads to the formation of two K and K′ valleys in the conduction bands. Each of these valleys displays its own spin polarization and a specific spin texture dictated by broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, and valley-exchange and Rashba splittings as large as hundreds of meV. This provides a platform for exploring spin-valley physics in low-dimensional semiconductors, with potential spin transport mechanisms such as spin-orbit torques much more resilient to disorder and temperature effects.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society, 2022. Vol. 105, no 4, article id L041402
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Research subject
Applied Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-88920DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L041402ISI: 000742858100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85122643267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-88920DiVA, id: diva2:1632532
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationThe Kempe FoundationsCarl Tryggers foundation Swedish Research Council, 2018-05973
Note
Validerad;2022;Nivå 2;2022-01-27 (johcin)
2022-01-272022-01-272023-09-05Bibliographically approved