Denisov K S, Rozhansky I V, Averkiev N S, Lähderanta E
Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, 194021, Russia.
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, FI-53851, Lappeenranta, Finland.
Sci Rep. 2019 Jul 25;9(1):10817. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47274-6.
In this work we manifest that an electrostatic disorder in conducting systems with broken time reversal symmetry universally leads to a chiral ordering of the electron gas giving rise to skyrmion-like textures in spatial distribution of the electron spin density. We describe a microscopic mechanism underlying the formation of the equilibrium chiral spin textures in two-dimensional systems with spin-orbit interaction and exchange spin splitting. We have obtained analytical expressions for spin-density response functions and have analyzed both local and non-local spin response to electrostatic perturbations for systems with parabolic-like and Dirac electron spectra. With the proposed theory we come up with a concept of controlling spin chirality by electrical means.
在这项工作中,我们表明,在时间反演对称性破缺的导电系统中,静电无序普遍导致电子气的手性有序,从而在电子自旋密度的空间分布中产生类斯格明子纹理。我们描述了具有自旋轨道相互作用和交换自旋分裂的二维系统中平衡手性自旋纹理形成的微观机制。我们得到了自旋密度响应函数的解析表达式,并分析了具有类抛物线和狄拉克电子能谱的系统对静电扰动的局域和非局域自旋响应。利用所提出的理论,我们提出了一种通过电学手段控制自旋手性的概念。