Berry curvature, spin Hall effect and nonlinear optical response in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
arXiv:2210.00759 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.075424
Abstract
Recently, the topological flat bands and spin Hall effect have been experimentally observed in the AB-stacked MoTe/WSe heterostructures. In this work, we systematically study the Berry curvature effects in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers. We point out that the moiré potential of the remote conduction bands would induce a sizable periodic pseudo-magnetic field (PMF) on the valence band. This periodic PMF creates net Berry curvature flux in each valley of the moiré Brillouin zone. The combination of the effect of the Berry curvature and the spin-valley locking can induce the spin Hall effect being observed in the experiment. Interestingly, the valley-contrasting Berry curvature distribution generated by the PMF can be probed through shift currents, which are DC currents induced by linearly polarized lights through nonlinear responses. Our work shed lights on the novel quantum phenomena induced by Berry curvatures in moiré TMD heterobilayers.
10 pages, 7 figures
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