Phonon-driven spin-Floquet magneto-valleytronics in MoS2

Dongbin Shin; Hannes Hübener; Umberto De Giovannini; Hosub Jin; Angel Rubio; Noejung Park

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02918-5

Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Phonon-driven spin-Floquet magneto-valleytronics in MoS2

Dongbin Shin,
Hannes Hübener,
Umberto De Giovannini,
Hosub Jin,
Angel Rubio,
Noejung Park

Affiliations

Dongbin Shin: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Hannes Hübener: Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Umberto De Giovannini: Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Hosub Jin: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Angel Rubio: Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Noejung Park: Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02918-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In 2H semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides the valley-selective excitation has been achieved with circularly polarized photons. Here, the authors show that circularly polarized phonons produce a valley-dependent dynamic spin state as a result of strong spin-phonon coupling.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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