Inverse quantum spin Hall effect generated by spin pumping from precessing magnetization into a graphene-based two-dimensional topological insulator

Details Inverse quantum spin Hall effect generated by spin pumping from precessing magnetization into a graphene-based two-dimensional topological insulator Inverse quantum spin Hall effect generated by spin pumping from precessing magnetization into a graphene-based two-dimensional topological insulator

2009-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2192v3

Phys. Rev. B 81, 035428 (2010).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

11 pages, 8 figures; published expanded version with new figures on spatial profiles of local spin and charge currents

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.035428

We propose a multiterminal nanostructure for electrical probing of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators. The device consists of a ferromagnetic (FM) island with precessing magnetization that pumps (in the absence of any bias voltage) pure spin current symmetrically into the left and right adjacent 2D TIs modeled as graphene nanoribbons with the intrinsic spin-orbit (SO) coupling. The QSH regime of the six-terminal TI|FM|TI nanodevice, attached to two longitudinal and four transverse normal metal electrodes, is characterized by the SO-coupling-induced energy gap, chiral spin-filtered edge states within finite length TI regions, and quantized spin Hall conductance when longitudinal bias voltage is applied, despite the presence of the FM island. The same unbiased device, but with precessing magnetization of the central FM island, blocks completely pumping of total spin and charge currents into the longitudinal electrodes while generating DC transverse charge Hall currents. Although these transverse charge currents are not quantized, their induction together with zero longitudinal charge current is a unique electrical response of TIs to pumped pure spin current that cannot be mimicked by SO-coupled but topologically trivial systems. In the corresponding two-terminal inhomogeneous TI|FM|TI nanostructures, we image spatial profiles of local spin and charge currents within TIs which illustrate transport confined to chiral spin-filtered edges states while revealing concomitantly the existence of interfacial spin and charge currents flowing around TI|FM interfaces and penetrating into the bulk of TIs over some short distance.

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