The impacts of spin–orbit coupling and strain on transverse dynamical spin susceptibility in undoped phosphorene: Kane–Mele model study

Abstract

We present the behaviors of dynamical transverse spin susceptibilities of undoped phosphorene monolayer using the Green’s function approach in the context of Kane–Mele model Hamiltonian. Such dynamical spin susceptibility is proportional to inelastic cross section of neutron beam from the layer. Specially, the effects of magnetic field and spin–orbit coupling strength on the spin excitation modes of phosphorene monolayer are investigated via calculating correlation function of spin density operators. Our results show the increase of magnetic field leads to move the magnetic excitation energy to higher values. Also, the intensity of peaks in inelastic cross section reduces with increase of magnetic field. We also show that applying both uniaxial and biaxial strains causes to decrease the intensity of peaks in dynamical spin susceptibility. Finally the effects of both compressive and tensile strains on frequency dependence of dynamical spin structure factor of phosphorene layer are studied. Moreover, the frequency positions of spin excitation mode of phosphorene layer have been investigated due to the effects of spin orbit coupling strength in details.