{
  "id": "1408.2121",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-08-09T15:03:08.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-11-19T09:12:11.000Z",
  "title": "Spin-valley relaxation and quantum transport regimes in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides",
  "authors": [
    "Hector Ochoa",
    "Francesca Finocchiaro",
    "Francisco Guinea",
    "Vladimir I. Fal'ko"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "Quantum transport and spintronics regimes are studied in p- and n-doped atomic layers of hexagonal transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), subject to the interplay between the valley structure and spin-orbit coupling. We find how spin relaxation of carriers depends on their areal density and show that it vanishes for holes near the band edge, leading to the density-independent spin diffusion length, and we develop a theory of weak localisation/antilocalisation, describing the crossovers between the orthogonal, double-unitary and symplectic regimes of quantum transport in TMDCs.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-08-09T15:03:08.000Z",
      "comment": "4 pages + SI",
      "journal": null,
      "doi": null
    },
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-11-19T09:12:11.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.23.-b",
      "72.15.Rn",
      "72.25.Rb"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides",
      "quantum transport regimes",
      "spin-valley relaxation",
      "density-independent spin diffusion length",
      "hexagonal transition metal dichalcogenides"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.90.235429",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 90,
      "number": 23,
      "pages": 235429
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvB..90w5429O"
    }
  }
}