Collision-dominated spin transport in graphene and Fermi liquids

Details Collision-dominated spin transport in graphene and Fermi liquids Collision-dominated spin transport in graphene and Fermi liquids

2010-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/1012.2960v2

New J. Phys. 13, 035009 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Published version - discussion of possible experiments added; free access: http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/13/035009

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In a clean Fermi liquid, due to spin up/spin down symmetry, the dc spin current driven by a magnetic field gradient is finite even in the absence of impurities. Hence, the spin conductivity sigma_s assumes a well-defined collision-dominated value in the disorder-free limit, providing a direct measure for the inverse strength of electron-electron interactions. In neutral graphene, with Fermi energy at the Dirac point, the Coulomb interactions remain unusually strong, such that the inelastic scattering rate comes close to a conjectured upper bound 1/\tau_{inel} <= k_B T/\hbar, similarly as in strongly coupled quantum critical systems. The strong scattering is reflected by a minimum of the spin conductivity at the Dirac point, where it reaches sigma_s = (0.121/alpha^2) * (mu_B^2/\hbar) at weak Coulomb coupling alpha. Up to the replacement of quantum units, e^2/\hbar -> mu_s^2/\hbar, this result equals the collision-dominated electrical conductivity obtained previously. This accidental symmetry is, however, broken to higher orders in the interaction strength. For gated graphene, and 2d metals in general, we show that the transport time is parametrically smaller than the collision time. We exploit this to compute the collision-limited sigma_s analytically as sigma_s= (1/C) * (mu/T)^2 * (mu_B^2/\hbar) with C=4 pi^2 alpha^2 [2/3 ln(1/(2\alpha))-1] for weak Coulomb coupling alpha.

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