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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011008
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- NCCR Nanoscience
- NCCR QSIT
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We study graphene nanoribbons theoretically in the presence of spatially varying magnetic fields produced, e.g., by nanomagnets. We show, both analytically and numerically, that an exceptionally large Rashba spin-orbit interaction of the order of 10 meV can be produced by a nonuniform magnetic field. As a consequence, helical modes exist in armchair nanoribbons that exhibit nearly perfect spin polarization and are robust against boundary defects. This result paves the way for realizing spin-filter devices in graphene nanoribbons in the temperature regime of a few kelvins. If a nanoribbons in the helical regime is in proximity contact to an s-wave superconductor, the nanoribbon can be tuned into a topological phase that sustains Majorana fermions. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011008
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