Spin relaxation times in disordered graphene

Abstract

We consider two mechanisms of spin relaxation in disordered graphene. i) Spin relaxation due to curvature spin orbit coupling caused by ripples. ii) Spin relaxation due to the interaction of the electronic spin with localized magnetic moments at the edges. We obtain analytical expressions for the spin relaxation times, tau_SO and tau_J due to both mechanisms and estimate their values for realistic parameters of graphene samples. We obtain that spin relaxation originating from these mechanisms is very weak and spin coherence is expected in disordered graphene up to samples of length L ~ 1 micron.

To appear in the Proceedings of the Graphene Conference, MPI PKS Dresden, September 2006. Corrected typos

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