Gauge potential formulations of the spin Hall effect in graphene

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.05.034zbMATH Open1242.81065arXiv1101.2284OpenAlexW2084412997MaRDI QIDQ434136FDOQ434136

Elif Yunt, Ömer F. Dayi

Publication date: 9 July 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two different gauge potential methods are engaged to calculate explicitly the spin Hall conductivity in graphene. The graphene Hamiltonian with spin-orbit interaction is expressed in terms of kinematic momenta by introducing a gauge potential. A formulation of the spin Hall conductivity is established by requiring that the time evolution of this kinematic momentum vector vanishes. We then calculated the conductivity employing the Berry gauge fields. We show that both of the gauge fields can be deduced from the pure gauge field arising from the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2284

zbMATH Keywords

Berry phasespin Hall effecttwo-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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• Berry phase effects on electronic properties
• Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes
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• Quantum Hall effect in graphene: a functional determinant approach
• On the role of a torsion-like field in a scenario for the Spin Hall Effect
• The quantum Hall effect in graphene samples and the relativistic Dirac effective action

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