Effective velocities of polaron spin states in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Abstract

Abstract We propose a theoretical model for studying the effective velocities of polaron spin states in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDS) on the substrate. It is found that the effective velocity of polaron shows the splitting with different magnitudes due to the Rashba spin–orbit coupling, which results in the reversed distribution of the effective velocities of polaron spin states. Moreover, the reversed points depend on the truncated wave-vector of optical phonon and can be modulated by the polarity of substrate and the internal distance between monolayer TMDS and substrate. These theoretical results enlighten some simple ways to distinguish and modulate the polaron spin states in two-dimensional heterostructures.