The generation and detection of the spin-valley-polarization in semi-Dirac materials

Abstract

We investigated the transport properties in a normal metal/ferromagnet/normal metal/superconductor junction based on semi-Dirac materials with inverted energy gap. With a scattering matrix approach, we show that the electron transport in the junction is spin-valley-polarized due to the ferromagnetic exchange energy. It is also shown that the Andreev reflection is strongly suppressed, which is a clear experimental signal for the spin-valley-polarization in semi-Dirac materials.