Band-structure topologies of graphene: spin-orbit coupling effects from first principles

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2009-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3315v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 235431 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

The electronic band structure of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and transverse electric field is investigated from first principles using the linearized augmented plane-wave method. The spin-orbit coupling opens a gap at the $K(K')$-point of the magnitude of 24 $\mu$eV (0.28 K). This intrinsic splitting comes 96% from the usually neglected $d$ and higher orbitals. The electric field induces an additional (extrinsic) Bychkov-Rashba-type splitting of 10 $\mu$eV (0.11 K) per V/nm, coming from the $\sigma$-$\pi$ mixing. A 'mini-ripple' configuration with every other atom is shifted out of the sheet by less than 1% differs little from the intrinsic case.

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