Quantitative analysis on electric dipole energy in Rashba band splitting

We report on quantitative comparison between the electric dipole energy and the Rashba band splitting in model systems of Bi and Sb triangular monolayers under a perpendicular electric field. We used both first-principles and tight binding calculations on p-orbitals with spin-orbit coupling. First-p...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2015-09, Vol.5 (1), p.13488-13488, Article 13488
Main Authors: Hong, Jisook, Rhim, Jun-Won, Kim, Changyoung, Ryong Park, Seung, Hoon Shim, Ji
Format: Article
Language:English
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Electric fields
Energy
Quantitative analysis
Splitting
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Summary:We report on quantitative comparison between the electric dipole energy and the Rashba band splitting in model systems of Bi and Sb triangular monolayers under a perpendicular electric field. We used both first-principles and tight binding calculations on p-orbitals with spin-orbit coupling. First-principles calculation shows Rashba band splitting in both systems. It also shows asymmetric charge distributions in the Rashba split bands which are induced by the orbital angular momentum. We calculated the electric dipole energies from coupling of the asymmetric charge distribution and external electric field, and compared it to the Rashba splitting. Remarkably, the total split energy is found to come mostly from the difference in the electric dipole energy for both Bi and Sb systems. A perturbative approach for long wave length limit starting from tight binding calculation also supports that the Rashba band splitting originates mostly from the electric dipole energy difference in the strong atomic spin-orbit coupling regime.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/srep13488