Abstract
Two-dimensional materials equipped with strong spin–orbit coupling can display novel electronic, spintronic, and topological properties originating from the breaking of time or inversion symmetry. A lot of interest has focused on the valley degrees of freedom that can be used to encode binary information. By performing ab initio time-dependent density functional simulation on MoS2, here we show that the spin is not only locked to the valley momenta but strongly coupled to the optical E″ phonon that lifts the lattice mirror symmetry. Once the phonon is pumped so as to break time-reversal symmetry, the resulting Floquet spectra of the phonon-dressed spins carry a net out-of-plane magnetization (≈0.024μB for single-phonon quantum) even though the original system is non-magnetic. This dichroic magnetic response of the valley states is general for all 2H semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides and can be probed and controlled by infrared coherent laser excitation.
Highlights
Two-dimensional materials equipped with strong spin–orbit coupling can display novel electronic, spintronic, and topological properties originating from the breaking of time or inversion symmetry
While the spins of the valence band maxima (VBM) are largely frozen, those on the conduction band minima (CBM) exhibit interesting dynamics governed by one particular optical phonon
We find that the full spin dynamics in the valley of MoS2 is well described by a simple two-level Hamiltonian in which the internal magnetic field oscillates along the particular optical phonon that breaks the in-plane mirror symmetry[12]
Summary
Two-dimensional materials equipped with strong spin–orbit coupling can display novel electronic, spintronic, and topological properties originating from the breaking of time or inversion symmetry. We find that the full spin dynamics in the valley of MoS2 is well described by a simple two-level Hamiltonian in which the internal magnetic field oscillates along the particular optical phonon that breaks the in-plane mirror symmetry[12].
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