{
  "id": "1909.11674",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-09-25T18:00:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-09-25T18:00:03.000Z",
  "title": "Van der Waals heterostructures with spin-orbit coupling",
  "authors": [
    "Enrico Rossi",
    "Christopher Triola"
  ],
  "comment": "Brief invited review for special issue of Annalen der Physik. 19 pages, 11 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.supr-con"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this article we review recent work on van der Waals (vdW) systems in which at least one of the components has strong spin-orbit coupling. We focus on a selection of vdW heterostructures to exemplify the type of interesting electronic properties that can arise in these systems. We first present a general effective model to describe the low energy electronic degrees of freedom in these systems. We apply the model to study the case of (vdW) systems formed by a graphene sheet and a topological insulator. We discuss the electronic transport properties of such systems and show how they exhibit much stronger spin-dependent transport effects than isolated topological insulators. We then consider vdW systems in which the layer with strong spin-orbit coupling is a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) and briefly discuss graphene-TMD systems. In the second part of the article we discuss the case in which the vdW system includes a superconducting layer in addition to the layer with strong spin-orbit coupling. We show in detail how these systems can be designed to realize odd-frequency superconducting pair correlations. Finally, we discuss twisted graphene-NbSe2 bilayer systems as an example in which the strength of the proximity-induced superconducting pairing in the normal layer, and its Ising character, can be tuned via the relative twist angle between the two layers forming the heterostructure.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-09-25T18:00:03.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "van der waals heterostructures",
      "odd-frequency superconducting pair correlations",
      "strong spin-orbit coupling",
      "low energy electronic degrees",
      "stronger spin-dependent transport effects"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "review article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}