Issue |
EPL
Volume 92, Number 1, October 2010
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Article Number | 17002 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/92/17002 | |
Published online | 22 October 2010 |
Electron spin dynamics and electron spin resonance in graphene
1
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Physics and Condensed Matter Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - H-1521 Budapest, Hungary, EU
2
Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich - Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
3
Universität Wien, Fakultät für Physik - Strudlhofgasse 4, 1090 Wien, Austria, EU
Received:
21
July
2010
Accepted:
16
September
2010
A theory of spin relaxation in graphene including intrinsic, Bychkov-Rashba, and ripple spin-orbit coupling is presented. We find from spin relaxation data by Tombros et al. (Nature, 448 (2007) 571) that intrinsic spin-orbit coupling dominates over other contributions with a coupling constant of 3.7 meV. Although it is 1–3 orders of magnitude larger than those obtained from first principles, we show that comparable values are found for other honeycomb systems, MgB2 and LiC6; the latter is studied herein by electron spin resonance (ESR). We assess the feasibility of bulk electron spin resonance spectroscopy on graphene and identify experimental conditions where such experiments are realizable.
PACS: 76.30.-v – Electron paramagnetic resonance and relaxation / 76.30.Pk – Conduction electrons / 81.05.ue – Graphene
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