Abstract
We have theoretically investigated the spin-valley asymmetric transport of massive Dirac fermions in the field-controllable bilayer silicene superlattices. The spin-valley dependent ballistic transmission, conductance, and polarization have been systematically calculated by formulating the scattering matrix method for the completed four-band low-energy effective Hamiltonian. Our results uncover that for a single valley transport, near-perfect spin polarization and its perfect switching could be efficiently modulated by the gate field engineering. Under the one-dimensional periodic field modulation, two types of flat bands with less dispersion and, importantly, the perfect contrast in the spin-dependent subbands are observed for the bilayer silicene superlattice. Together with its larger spin-orbit coupling and better stability, these spin-valley asymmetric characteristics engineered by the gate field indicate that the field-controllable bilayer silicene could be a potential component candidate to achieve a fully spin-valley polarized beam for quantum logic applications.
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