Tunneling Valley Hall Effect Driven by Tilted Dirac Fermions.

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.10697
• Publication Date: 2023-12-14
• Authors: Shu-Hui Zhang; Ding-Fu Shao; Zi-An Wang; Jin Yang; Wen Yang; Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
• Keywords: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics; Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); FOS: Physical sciences

7 pages, 3 figures<br/>Valleytronics is a research field utilizing a valley degree of freedom of electrons for information processing and storage. A strong valley polarization is critical for realistic valleytronic applications. Here, we predict a tunneling valley Hall effect (TVHE) driven by tilted Dirac fermions in all-in-one tunnel junctions based on a two-dimensional (2D) valley material. Different doping of the electrode and spacer regions in these tunnel junctions results in momentum filtering of the tunneling Dirac fermions, generating a strong transverse valley Hall current dependent on the Dirac-cone tilting. Using the parameters of an existing 2D valley material, we demonstrate that such a TVHE is much stronger than that induced by the intrinsic Berry curvature mechanism reported previously. Finally, we predict that resonant tunneling can occur in a tunnel junction with properly engineered device parameters such as the spacer width and transport direction, providing significant enhancement of the valley Hall angle. Our work opens a new approach to generate valley polarization in realistic valleytronic systems.<br/>