Pressure-Induced Topological Phase Transition and Large Rashba Effect in Halide Double Perovskite.
J Phys Chem Lett
; 15(5): 1477-1483, 2024 Feb 08.
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| ID: mdl-38295292
ABSTRACT
In general, hydrostatic pressure can suppress ferroelectric polarization and further reduce Rashba spin-splitting, considering the spin-orbit coupling effect. Here, we present the design of ferroelectric double perovskite Cs2SnSiI6, which exhibits the anomalous enhancement of Rashba spin-splitting parameters by pressure-induced ferroelectric topological order. The Rashba effect is nonlinear with the decrease in polarization under pressure and reaches a maximum at the pressure-induced Weyl semimetal (WSM) state between the transition from a normal insulator (NI) to a topological insulator (TI). Furthermore, we discover that controlling ferroelectric polarization with an electric field can also induce the topological transition with a large Rashba spin-splitting but under a lower critical pressure. These discoveries show a tunable gaint Rashba effect and pressure-induced topological phase transition for Cs2SnSiI6, which can promote future research on the interaction between the Rashba effect and topological order, and its application to new electronic and spintronic devices.
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