Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-12-02
Phys. Rev. B 85, 085406 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
10 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.085406
Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are described by formally identical expressions. We explore implications of this correspondence for transport by choosing chiral tunneling through pn and pnp junctions as a concrete example. A real-space Green's function formalism based on a tight-binding model is adopted to perform the ballistic transport calculations, which cover and confirm previous theoretical results based on the Dirac theory. Chiral tunneling in monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba coupling is shown to indeed behave like in bilayer graphene. Combined effects of a forbidden normal transmission and spin separation are observed within the single-band n to p transmission regime. The former comes from real-spin conservation, in analogy with pseudospin conservation in bilayer graphene, while the latter arises from the intrinsic spin-Hall mechanism of the Rashba coupling.
Bundesmann Jan
Liu Ming-Hao
Richter Klaus
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