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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.045108
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- US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
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The origin of Rashba spin splitting in the two-dimensional electron gas at the (001) surface of SrTiO3 is studied using first-principles calculations and tight-binding model. Calculations of oxygen vacancies under virtual crystal approximation reveal a two-dimensional electron-gas subband structure similar to polar materials, consistent with observations on SrTiO3. Our studies also confirm that k dependence of the spin splitting is predominantly cubic in the surface Ti-t(2g) states, even though structural relaxations diminish the effect in d(xy) bands. Atight-binding model, explicitly including Ti-d and O-p states as well as next-nearest-neighbor interactions, is derived to understand the first-principles results. Effective Rashba Hamiltonians for the surface bands are derived using quasidegenerate perturbation theory and scenarios in which linear k contribution may be suppressed are discussed. However, the cubic terms in the Hamiltonian are found to be different from the model derived using k . p theory, leading to different pseudospin symmetry in the Brillouin zone.
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