Electron spin relaxation in graphene from a microscopic approach: Role of electron-electron interaction

Details Electron spin relaxation in graphene from a microscopic approach: Role of electron-electron interaction Electron spin relaxation in graphene from a microscopic approach: Role of electron-electron interaction

2010-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0638v2

Phys. Rev. B 82, 085304 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.085304

Electron spin relaxation in graphene on a substrate is investigated from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All the relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity, electron--acoustic-phonon, electron--optical-phonon, electron--remote-interfacial-phonon, as well as electron-electron Coulomb scatterings, are explicitly included. Our study concentrates on clean intrinsic graphene, where the spin-orbit coupling from the adatoms can be neglected. We discuss the effect of the electron-electron Coulomb interaction on spin relaxation under various conditions. It is shown that the electron-electron Coulomb scattering plays an important role in spin relaxation at high temperature. We also find a significant increase of the spin relaxation time for high spin polarization even at room temperature, which is due to the Coulomb Hartree-Fock contribution-induced effective longitudinal magnetic field. It is also discovered that the spin relaxation time increases with the in-plane electric field due to the hot-electron effect, which is different from the non-monotonic behavior in semiconductors. Moreover, we show that the electron-electron Coulomb scattering in graphene is not strong enough to establish the steady-state hot-electron distribution in the literature and an alternative approximate one is proposed based on our computation.

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