Electron spin relaxation due to D'yakonov-Perel' and Elliot-Yafet mechanisms in monolayer MoS${}_2$: Role of intravalley and intervalley processes

Abstract

We investigate the in-plane spin relaxation of electrons due to the D'yakonov-Perel' and Elliot-Yafet mechanisms including the intra- and inter-valley processes in monolayer MoS${}_2$. We construct the effective Hamiltonian for the conduction band using the Löwdin partition method from the anisotropic two-band Hamiltonian with the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling of the conduction band included. The spin-orbit coupling of the conduction band induces the intra- and inter-valley D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation. In addition, the Elliot-Yafet spin relaxation also takes place due to the interband spin mixing. We find that the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism dominates the in-plane spin relaxation. In the framework of this mechanism, the intravalley process is shown to play a more important role at low temperature whereas the intervalley one becomes more important at high temperature. At the temperature in between, the leading process of the in-plane spin relaxation changes from the intervalley to intravalley one as the electron density increases. Moreover, we find that the intravalley process is dominated by the electron-electron Coulomb scattering even with high impurity density since the dominant term in the spin-orbit coupling is isotropic, which does not lead to the spin relaxation together with the electron-impurity scattering. This is very different from the previous studies in semiconductors and graphene.

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