Optical injection of a spin current into a zigzag nanoribbon of monolayer MoS2 with antiferromagnetic Kekule distortion

Abstract

The Kekule pattern of the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange field on monolayer MoS2 can be induced by proximity to the (111) surface of BiFeO3 on both sides. The three-band tight binding model of the MoS2 layer with Kekule patterned exchange field is applied to describe the heterostructures. The tight binding model is justified by the first principle calculations. The magnetization orientations of the substrates control the pattern of the exchange field, which then switches the band structures of the lowest zigzag edge states between being metallic and insulating. The lowest four zigzag edge bands provide conducting channels with a spin-polarized current. Optical excitation of carriers in these bands generates sizable spin and charge currents, which are theoretically modeled by the perturbation solution of the semiconductor Bloch equation. The injected spin currents have multiple resonant peaks at a few frequencies, which can be switched off by rotating the magnetization orientations of the substrates.

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