Abstract

The second-order nonlinear Hall effect in 8-Pmmn monolayer borophene under the influence of an out-of-plane electric field and intrinsic spin–orbit interaction is reported. This unconventional response sensitive to the breaking of discrete and crystal symmetries can be tuned by the applied electric field, which can vary the bandgap induced by spin–orbit coupling. It is described by a Hall conductivity tensor that depends quadratically on the applied electric field. We find that the nonlinear Hall effect strongly depends on the spin polarization. In particular, it exhibits out of the phase character for spin-up and spin-down states. Remarkably, it undergoes a phase flip in the spin-up state at a large out-of-plane electric field that generates a staggered sublattice potential greater than the spin–orbit interaction strength. It is shown that the nonlinear Hall effect in the system originates from the broken inversion symmetry that plays an indispensable role in developing finite Berry curvature and its relevant dipole moment. It is found that at zero temperature, the nonlinear Hall response is maximal when the Fermi energy is twice the bandgap parameter and vanishes at large Fermi energies. Notably, the peak of nonlinear Hall response shifts to lower Fermi energies at finite temperature.

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