Even-odd effect of spin-dependent transport and thermoelectric properties for ferromagnetic zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons under an electric field

Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : an Institute of Physics Journal
Benliang ZhouBenhu Zhou

Abstract

We study the spin-dependent transport and thermoelectric properties of ferromagnetic zigzag-edge phosphorene nanoribbon with N chains (N-ZPNR) modulated by a perpendicular electric field (PEF). By adopting the Hubbard model Hamiltonian combined with the self-consistent calculation, and using the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we obtain the band structure, spin-dependent transmission coefficients and Seebeck coefficients. It is demonstrated that the bands are split with spin-up and -down ones for both 12- and 13-ZPNR in the ferromagnetic state, and both ZPNRs show spin-semiconducting behavior with the spin gap of value 1 eV. Interestingly, there is an even-odd effect on the spin-dependent transport and thermoelectric properties when a PEF is applied, which originates from the structure symmetry of N-ZPNR and can result in different behavior of edge states for even and odd cases. The electric field lifts the degeneracy of the two edge bands for both spin-up and -down channels in 12-ZPNR, however, it only bends the spin-up edge bands and shifts the spin-down ones upward without splitting in 13-ZPNR. In addition, we find that the spin Seebeck coefficients exhibit wide plateaus and their maximum values can reach unprecedent...Continue Reading

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