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Tunable valley splitting in two-dimensional CrBr3/VSe2van der Waals heterostructure under strains and electric fields
Xuesong Liang1, Jin Sun1, Zhizhou Yu1
1Phonon Engineering Research Center of Jiangsu Province, Center for Quantum Transport and Thermal Energy Science, Institute of Physics Frontiers and Interdisciplinary Sciences, School of Physics and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Valleytronics opens up fascinating opportunities for using the valley degree of freedom in information storage and quantum computation. Here, based on the first-principles calculations, we investigate the effects of biaxial strains and electric fields on the magnetic, electronic, and valleytronic properties of two-dimensional CrBr3/VSe2van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure consisting of two ferromagnetic monolayers. An interlayer magnetic phase transition from parallel to antiparallel is found when a compressive strain exceeds-2%or a tensile strain exceeds 4% is applied, while the interlayer magnetic configuration remains parallel under perpendicular electric fields. The valley splitting in the conduction bands is significantly enhanced by a compressive strain or an electric field pointing from the VSe2to the CrBr3layer. Specifically, a large valley splitting about 30.8 meV is obtained in the system with antiparallel interlayer magnetic configurations under a compressive strain of-4%, which is more than three times that of pristine CrBr3/VSe2heterostructure. Our findings provide new insights into the future valleytronic applications for two-dimensional magnetic vdW heterostructures.
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