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# Robust all-electrical topological valley filtering using monolayer 2D-Xenes

## Abstract

We propose a realizable device design for an all-electrical robust valley filter that utilizes spin protected topological interface states hosted on monolayer 2D-Xene materials with large intrinsic spin–orbit coupling. In contrast with conventional quantum spin-Hall edge states localized around the X-points, the interface states appearing at the domain wall between topologically distinct phases are either from the K or $$K^{\prime}$$ points, making them suitable prospects for serving as valley-polarized channels. We show that the presence of a large band-gap quantum spin-Hall effect enables the spatial separation of the spin–valley locked helical interface states with the valley states being protected by spin conservation, leading to robustness against short-range nonmagnetic disorder. By adopting the scattering matrix formalism on a suitably designed device structure, valley-resolved transport in the presence of nonmagnetic short-range disorder for different 2D-Xene materials is also analyzed in detail. Our numerical simulations confirm the role of spin–orbit coupling in achieving an improved valley filter performance with a perfect quantum of conductance attributed to the topologically protected interface states. Our analysis further elaborates clearly the right choice of material, device geometry and other factors that need to be considered while designing an optimized valleytronic filter device.

## Introduction

Two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene1 featuring honeycomb lattices, such as MoS2 and other transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)2,3, group-IV and V 2D-Xenes4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13, have enjoyed significant research activity targeting a wide range of applications. The uniqueness of these materials lies in their band structure having energy minimas far apart in the momentum space, endowing the low-energy carriers a valley degree of freedom that can be exploited for information manipulation. This has paved the way for the field of valleytronics14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26, in which the valley filter24 is a primary device paradigm that facilitates the generation of valley-polarized carriers.

There have been several proposals for valley filtering that include utilizing nanoconstrictions24, optical pumping20,22,23,25,27, the valley Hall effect18,19,21,25,26, strain engineering28,29, the valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall phase30,31,32, and domain walls between materials with broken inversion symmetry33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48. Two indices critical for a valley filter performance are the valley polarization and the total transmission, which should be immune against back-scattering30.

Interface states at domain walls in monolayer 2D materials created using line junctions or defects which have been considered in previous works have different levels of topological robustness34,35,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50. Interface states formed along the zero mass lines, where the effective mass reverses sign, are valley-momentum locked and hence serve as perfectly valley-polarized channels. In 2D-Xenes with buckled honeycomb lattices51,52, monolayer TMDCs in 1T′-configuration2 and bilayer materials such as bilayer graphene21,34,37,38,39,53 and bilayer MoS254, it is possible to break the inversion symmetry and control the band gap by the application of a perpendicular electric field using electrical gating, in order to possibly facilitate an all-electrical valley filter. Previous proposals and experimental realizations of domain wall-based valley filters in monolayer47,48 and bilayer structures34,37,38 suffer from a serious deterioration in the transmission and valley polarization due to back-scattering and bulk-assisted intervalley scattering from strong short-range disorder38,39,46.

In this paper, we utilize the spin protection to the valley states through spin–valley locking41, to demonstrate a realizable device design for robust valley filtering via the spatial separation of spin–valley locked interface states. This is possible in materials with strong spin–orbit (SO) coupling featuring a broken inversion symmetry, typical examples being monolayer MoS2 and related materials55, as well as group-IV and V 2D-Xenes under a perpendicular electric field52,56,57. In our case, we center the proposal on monolayer group-IV 2D-Xenes with buckled lattice structures51,58,59,60,61,62,63,64 to design and realize topologically robust valley filtering.

Our device design is inspired by the following ideas. Buckled 2D-Xene materials, in the absence of an electric field possess a topologically nontrivial band structure with quantum spin-Hall (QSH) edge states and continue to do so until a critical field beyond which they transit to a topologically trivial band insulator phase also known as quantum valley Hall (QVH) phase57. Adopting the experimentally well-established dual split-gate structure37,38 as depicted in Fig. 1a, with the side and top views as shown in Fig. 1b, we demonstrate that it is also possible to achieve QVH–QSH–QVH domain walls in contrast with the QVH–QVH domain walls of the earlier proposals. The QVH–QVH domain wall as illustrated in Fig. 1c hosts valley-momentum locked states, for both the spins, operating as valley-polarized channels. On the other hand, with the QVH–QSH–QVH domain walls illustrated in Fig. 1d, we can obtain spatially separated valley-polarized channels protected by spin conservation through spin–valley locking, provided time reversal symmetry (TRS) is preserved. This introduces the desired spin protection to the valley states via spin–valley locking in each of the two domain walls. Given the two domain walls are spatially well separated, we expect our valley filter to be robust, even against short-range disorder that can cause large momentum transfer, given the disorder is nonmagnetic and does not break TRS. This demands a QSH region that has a large gap, i.e., a large intrinsic SO coupling.

We also demonstrate this high degree of robustness by subjecting our channel to short-range nonmagnetic disorder of varying strength and examining the effect of SO coupling and line junction width on the valley filter performance. Based on our findings, we conclude the superiority of our QVH–QSH–QVH structure compared to other existing proposals. This implies the preservation of unity transmission and a mild degradation of the valley polarization with increase in disorder, guaranteeing a large enough valley-polarized current. To support our claims, we also present the local density of states (LDOS) calculations over the entire channel region. Apart from demonstrating the role of SO coupling and line junction width in achieving improved valley filtering, we also present a strategy to optimize the performance of the valley filter to tap into the full potential of our design.

## Results and discussions

### Device setup

In our proposed valley filter device sketched in Fig. 1a, b, we consider the channel as well as the leads to be made of monolayer 2D-Xene. The monolayer 2D-Xene is sandwiched between a top and a bottom dielectric layer. The top and bottom split-gates are used for the application of electric displacement field Dz. Neglecting any possible screening in the direction perpendicular to the channel, we can assume that the actual perpendicular electric field Ez in the 2D-Xene channel can be approximated as Ez ≈ Dz/ε0.

The tight binding Hamiltonian, based on the Kane-Mele model65, for a typical monolayer 2D-Xene having a honeycomb lattice structure reads56,57

$$\begin{array}{l}\hat{H}\,=\,-t\mathop{\sum}\limits_{\langle i,j\rangle \alpha }{c}_{i\alpha }^{{\dagger} }{c}_{j\alpha }\,+\,i\frac{{\lambda }_{SO}}{3\sqrt{3}}\mathop{\sum}\limits_{\langle \langle i,j\rangle \rangle \alpha }\alpha {\nu }_{ij}{c}_{i\alpha }^{{\dagger} }{c}_{j\alpha }\\ \qquad\quad+\,\mathop{\sum}\limits_{i\alpha }{\mu }_{i}{{{\Delta }}}_{z}{c}_{i\alpha }^{{\dagger} }{c}_{i\alpha },\end{array}$$
(1)

where $${c}_{i\alpha }^{({\dagger} )}$$ represents the annihilation (creation) operator of an electron on-site i with a spin α, and 〈i, j〉 and 〈〈i, j〉〉 run over all the nearest and next-nearest neighbor hopping sites respectively. The spin index α can be /, represented with corresponding values +1/−1 respectively. The first term in (1) corresponds to the usual nearest neighbor hopping term with a hopping strength t. The second term represents the intrinsic SO coupling with strength λSO, where νij = +1(−1) for anti-clockwise(clockwise) next-nearest neighbor hopping with respect to the positive z-axis. The third term denotes the staggered sublattice potential due to Δz, with μi = +1(−1), when i belongs to sublattice A(B). Here, Δz is site dependent even though the i index has been dropped. This term can be easily modulated in buckled lattices by the application of a perpendicular electric field Ez, giving Δz = lEz where 2l is the buckling height.There are additional Rashba SO coupling terms which have been neglected because they either are negligible in value for group-IV Xenes or have negligible effect on the states around the K/$$K^{\prime}$$ points36,45,52,56,57.

#### Choice of the material

Typical values of the parameters involved in (1) for the candidate materials57 have been summarized in Table 1. Graphene does not have a buckled structure (l = 0) and hence electrical gating cannot be an option to introduce the Δz term in it. Also both graphene and silicene have very small λSO values of 10−3 meV and 3.9 meV respectively, thus not making them suitable candidates to exploit the topological robustness of the QSH phase that we intend to do in order to design an efficient valley filter. It is worth mentioning that theoretical possibilities of engineering QSH and QVH states in strained graphene exist28, even in the absence of SO coupling, but such proposals rely on complex quantum pumping processes.

Stanene with an intrinsic SO coupling of ≈0.1 eV, seems to be a promising candidate for our valley filter5,57 proposal. In addition, functionalized germanene7 and stanene8,9 have shown sizable band gaps of around 0.3 eV along with a record band gap of around 1.34 eV in chemically decorated monolayer plumbene10. Apart from the above, a QSH phase with a sizeable band gap has also been proposed in monolayer TMDCs in 1T’ structure2 and group-V Xenes like arsenene, antimonene and bismuthene11,12,13. In our analysis, we narrow down our focus on group-IV Xenes like germanene and stanene. However, it is worth noting that there are other materials as listed above which can have QSH phase with a larger gap, and the use of such materials will only improve the valley filter performance. Also the above materials show a large enough buckling height9,10, with l ranging from 0.4 to 0.7 Å and hence the possibility of achieving a large gap QVH state as well. Thus the possibility of large band gap QSH and QVH phases in germanene and stanene makes them the ideal choice of materials to serve our purpose.

Having l = 0.4 Å would require an electrical field (Ez) of 5 V nm−1 to achieve Δz = 0.2 eV. That would mean a displacement field corresponding to Dz/ε0 = 5 V nm−1 which is practically quite achievable51,53,66. In this case, the electric field inside the dielectric layers would be given by Dz/ε. Now using a high-k dielectric such as HfO2 (ε = 23.5ε0)67, would lower the electric field inside the dielectric (≈2MV/cm for ε = 23.5ε0), thus ruling out the possibility of dielectric breakdown at a high displacement field corresponding to Dz/ε0 = 5 V nm−1 Based on this discussion, we choose the parameters involved in our model to be the following: t = 1.3 eV, l = 0.4 Å and a = 4 Å. We then vary λSO and Δz within the practically realizable limits, in order to optimize the valley filter performance.

#### Topological phases

Based on the low-energy Dirac Hamiltonian56, the gap of the energy spectrum corresponding to a spin s and valley η, is given by $$2| {{{\Delta }}}_{s}^{\eta }|$$, where $${{{\Delta }}}_{s}^{\eta }\,=\,{{{\Delta }}}_{z}\,-\,\eta s{\lambda }_{SO}$$ is the Dirac mass term56,57. We define the point (4π/3a, 0) as the K valley and (2π/3a, 0) as the $$K^{\prime}$$ valley. On varying Δz, $${{{\Delta }}}_{s}^{\eta }$$ reverses its sign when Δz = ηsλSO signaling a topological phase transition.

The above phase transitions can be better understood by an analysis of the Berry curvature and the Chern number. It is well known that the Berry curvature of the given Hamiltonian (1) is strictly localized around the K and $$K^{\prime}$$ points, allowing us to associate each valley with a Chern number $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}^{\eta }$$, where spin index s = ,  and valley index η = ± . The Chern number $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}^{\eta }$$ can be obtained using the Dirac Hamiltonian and is given by $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}^{\eta }\,=\,-\frac{\eta }{2}sgn({{{\Delta }}}_{s}^{\eta })$$41,42,45,46,56,57. Figure 2a shows the variation of $$| {{{\Delta }}}_{s}^{\eta }|$$ with Δz for all four pairs of (s, η) values and the corresponding Chern numbers have been listed in Table 2.

Here it is important to further introduce the spin Chern number $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}$$ and the valley Chern number $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{v}$$ as:

$${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}\,=\,\frac{1}{2}({{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\uparrow }^{K}\,+\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\uparrow }^{K^{\prime} }\,-\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\downarrow }^{K}\,-\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\downarrow }^{K^{\prime} })$$
(2)
$${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{v}\,=\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\uparrow }^{K}\,-\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\uparrow }^{K^{\prime} }\,+\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\downarrow }^{K}\,-\,{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{\downarrow }^{K^{\prime} }.$$
(3)

Based on $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}$$ and $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{v}$$, we can now label the various topological phases, namely the QSH phase and the QVH phases by varying Δz. For −λSO < Δz < λSO, the material exists in the QSH phase, characterized by $$2{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}\,=\,+2$$ (given λSO > 0) and $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{v}\,=\,0$$. On the other hand, for Δz < − λSOz > λSO), the material is in the QVH-I (QVH-II) phase having $$2{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}\,=\,0$$ and $${{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{v}\,=\,+2(-2)$$.

#### Topological domain walls

We now move on to investigate the interface states at the topological domain walls between different phases38,41,42,43,44,45,46. At the QVH-I/QSH interface, $${{\Delta }}{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}^{\eta }$$ is non-zero only for the $$(\uparrow ,K^{\prime} )$$ and (, K) states and has opposite signs, thus yielding a pair of counter-propagating helical interface states. Hence at the domain wall between the QVH-I and QSH phases, we have spin–valley-momentum locked interface states, $$(\uparrow ,K^{\prime} )$$ and (, K) propagating in opposite directions. A similar analysis of the domain wall between the QVH-II and QSH phases yields counter-propagating (, K) and $$(\downarrow ,K^{\prime} )$$ interface states. There is a third possible scenario that arises when λSO = 0, that is, no QSH phase exists and we will have a domain wall between the QVH-I and QVH-II phases. In this case $${{\Delta }}{{{{\mathcal{C}}}}}_{s}^{\eta }$$ is non-zero for all the four possible states with opposite signs for the K and $$K^{\prime}$$ valley states. Thus we expect four interface states with the K-valley states propagating in one direction and the $$K^{\prime}$$ states in the opposite direction. One special feature of these interface states which makes them an attractive option for valley filtering is that the counter-propagating states are localized at the K and $$K^{\prime}$$ points and are immune to any back-scattering due to long range disorder38,39,46.

#### Device structure

The domain walls discussed above can be easily realized by creating a line junction between oppositely gated regions using a dual split-gate structure shown in Fig. 1a, b. The given configuration of voltage sources ensures that a voltage of U ± V is applied to the gates, where V is responsible for modulating Ez and U allows us to control the channel electrochemical potential. Thus the channel has an additional on-site potential U on every site realized via the addition of the Hamiltonian term $${\hat{H}}_{U}\,=\,{\sum }_{i\alpha }U{c}_{i\alpha }^{{\dagger} }{c}_{i\alpha }$$. For the leads, we consider both λSO and Δz to be zero.

Given the width of the nanoribbon is Wo, we consider its y-coordinates to be in the range $$\left[-\frac{{W}_{o}}{2},\frac{{W}_{o}}{2}\right]$$. The dual split-gates have a spacing of Wj, with the adjacent edges located at $$y\,=\,\pm \frac{{W}_{j}}{2}$$. We have modeled the spatial dependence of Ez using the following analytical expression:

$${E}_{z}(y)\,=\,\frac{{E}_{zo}}{2}\left(\tanh \left(\frac{y\,-\,\frac{{W}_{j}}{2}}{\frac{{W}_{f}}{2}}\right)\,+\,\tanh \left(\frac{y\,+\,\frac{{W}_{j}}{2}}{\frac{{W}_{f}}{2}}\right)\right),$$
(4)

where Ezo is the maximum magnitude of the perpendicular electric field applied and Wf is the fringing width of the electric field at the gate edges. In an actual setup Wf has a direct dependence on the perpendicular spacing between the gates, which we assume to be 3.125 nm. Figure 2b, c illustrate the potential variation (μiΔz) along sublattices A and B for the two cases: Wj = 6.25 nm (small Wj) and Wj = 20.8 nm (large Wj) respectively. The above two cases differ in the fact that in the former case, the width of the region having Δz = 0 is negligible, whereas in the latter this width is large enough. Interestingly, exploiting the above potential variations, it is possible to have different cases of domain walls as depicted in Fig. 1c, d, a deeper discussion of which will follow in the upcoming section.

In all our calculations, we consider a zig-zag nanoribbon which is 180 atoms wide, corresponding to a width Wo = 62.5 nm. The channel region C as well as the leads L and R have the same width Wo, with the length Lo of the channel region being 40 nm i.e., 100 atoms long, which is long enough such that the out-going carriers are completely valley-polarized in the clean limit. The electrochemical potential of the leads (E) is fixed at E = t/3, corresponding to precisely seventy eight propagating modes, and that of the channel (E − U) is controlled by varying U. For all the numerical results that follow, unless explicitly mentioned, the width of the nanoribbon, length of the channel region C and the electrochemical potential of the leads are fixed.

Depicted in Fig. 3 is the operation of our valley filter in the absence of any form of disorder, i.e., the clean limit. The electrochemical potential of both the leads is fixed at E. For this case: Wj = 6.25 nm, E = t/3, λSO = 0.1 eV and Δzo = lEzo = 0.2 eV (max. value of Δz), thus creating a gap of $$2\left({{{\Delta }}}_{zo}\,-\,{\lambda }_{SO}\right)\,=\,0.2$$ eV. The gap defined above corresponds to the gap of the QVH regions, given that the QSH region gap is independent of Δzo and depends only on λSO. Both Fig. 3a, b corresponding to opposite gate configurations, show close to perfect valley polarization in the gap range $$\left[-0.1eV,0.1eV\right]$$. Since the valley polarization plotted is for transmission from L to R, whenever the K-valley electrons are right going, our filter is K-valley polarized as in Fig. 3a and similarly $$K^{\prime}$$-valley polarization in Fig. 3b. The fact that the valley polarization of the filter can be reversed by just reversing the signs of the gate voltages, makes this valley filter design quite convenient for practical purposes.

### Valley filtering performance

To ensure a fair comparison across all the cases, we assume the band gap of the bulk states in the QVH regions to be 0.2 eV, i.e., a gap range of $$\left[-0.1eV,0.1eV\right]$$, demanding Δzo = 0.1 + λSO, which implies that as λSO is varied, the applied gate voltage V also needs to be varied accordingly. Figure 4a–f shows the spatial variation of local band gap along the nanoribbon width for six different combinations of λSO and Wj along with the corresponding band structures in Fig. 4g–l. As indicated by the blue bands in Fig. 4a–f, localized interface states appear at the locations where the band gap closes. The total transmission T and valley polarization Pv (see Methods) are plotted in Fig. 5, in two different ways: (a) Disorder strength W (see Methods) varied, for E − U = 0, with E = t/3, as shown in Fig. 5a–d, (b) E − U varied over the gap range $$\left[-0.1eV,0.1eV\right]$$ for W = 2 eV, as in Fig. 5e–h. In the clean limit, within the gap range, we expect Pv to be close to unity, and T = 2, corresponding to two interface states, one for each spin.

However for disorder strength W = 2 eV, Pv deteriorates significantly, suggesting an increased intervalley scattering between the helical interface states and hence a suppressed transmission due to increased back-scattering. This does hold true for E − U around zero, but when E − U approaches the band edge, an enhancement in T is observed indicating the bulk state assistance in intervalley scattering, similar to what has been reported in39. Thus the intervalley mixing that is detrimental to the efficiency of our valley filter can happen either directly via back-scattering between the helical interface states or indirectly assisted by the bulk states. The former is dominant when the electrochemical potential lies in the middle of the band gap and the latter takes over as the electrochemical potential approaches the band edge.

Although there is no clear way to get rid of the bulk-assisted intervalley scattering other than having a larger band gap, the direct one can be evaded by introducing a spatial separation between interface states of the same spin. The results in Fig. 5c, g indeed confirm this. Unlike the other cases, as suggested by Fig. 5c, T remains unchanged when λSO = 0.1 eV and Wj = 20.8 nm, even in the presence of very strong disorder (W = 2.4 eV) and does not degrade with W as seen in other cases. Figure 5g shows that T remains perfectly quantized when the electrochemical potential lies around the mid-gap before getting affected by the bulk states as we move closer to the band edge. Despite showing a mild degradation in Pv with W like the others, it still has the best valley polarization in the presence of strong disorder.

The obtained results make more sense once the local band gap profiles in Fig. 4 are analyzed. Since the interface states appear at the locations where the gap closes, for the Wj = 6.25 nm case, the four interface states co-exist and overlap with one another (Fig. 4a–c). On the other hand when Wj = 20.8 nm, the interface states can now be hosted with spatial separation. However that alone is not enough to ensure spatial separation without any overlap. For example, in the case of λSO = 0 eV, the central line junction region is semimetallic and gapless thus leading to the interface states spreading out uniformly over the entire central region instead of being localized as depicted in Fig. 4d.

A wide semimetallic region also leads to bulk states, thus decreasing the available band gap as suggested by Fig. 4j. This has a detrimental effect on the valley filter performance, with the device now not only having a diminished operational energy range, but also a degrading valley polarization within this range, as confirmed by Fig. 5h, thus highlighting the role of bulk-assisted intervalley scattering in deteriorating the filtering efficiency. Similarly when λSO = 0.04 eV there exists a low band gap QSH region in the line junction. Although the interface states are hosted at different locations as depicted in Fig. 4e, they can still interact with one another via tunneling through the low band gap central region, thus leading to inevitable back-scattering. Even in this case, some bulk states enter the band gap as shown in Fig. 4k and further deteriorate the valley filter performance.

However, when λSO = 0.1 eV, the gap is free from bulk states as the QSH region has a gap equal to that of the QVH regions and any possible tunneling between the interface states is suppressed owing to the larger band gap central region. Thus the back-scattering is strongly suppressed even in presence of strong disorder and we get a perfectly quantized transmission T = 2 around the mid-gap. However the bulk-assisted intervalley scattering still persists and hence the degradation of Pv with W.

To further validate the arguments made above, the LDOS in the absence of disorder, for E − U = 0, has been plotted for all the cases in Fig. 6 (refer Supplementary Note 1 for LDOS plots corresponding to few more cases of Wj). The spatial variation of the interface states is illustrated for varied λSO, when Wj is small, in Fig. 6a–c and similarly in Fig. 6d–f for large Wj. The LDOS plots confirm our previous claims of the interface states being spatially separated only for the case with λSO = 0.1 eV and Wj = 20.8 nm (Fig. 6f). Thus our simulation results shed light on the possibility of achieving an improved valley filter performance, with a perfectly quantized T, by spatially separating the interface states with the same spin through a suitable chosen gate configuration. We now look into the important aspect of optimizing the proposed valley filter device.

### Device optimization

As mentioned before, a good electrical valley filter should have a large valley polarization along with a large enough total current in order to achieve a large valley current. In other words, perfect valley polarization with a very small amount of current is of no practical utility to any of the valleytronic applications. Thus exploiting the topological robustness and dissipation-less nature of spatially separated interface states with the introduction of intrinsic SO coupling is the key to achieve improved valley filtering.

Our valley filter can be optimized by considering the following two crucial requirements: Firstly, the QSH region should be well-gapped and wide enough to ensure that the spatially separated interface states do not overlap with each other. This is necessary to ensure that back-scattering is negligible and T is perfectly quantized even in the presence of strong nonmagnetic disorder. Secondly, the QVH regions also need to be well-gapped and wide enough to ensure that the interface states do not spread out to the nanoribbon edges. Ensuring this is critical to maintain the valley-polarized character of the interface states so that the valley filter produces significant valley polarization.

#### Optimal λSO

So far, the comparison between the different cases was made after considering the same bulk band gap of the QVH region and this requires different perpendicular fields Ezo for different values of λSO. In Fig. 5, we notice that when λSO = 0 eV, the valley filter performs the best when the adjacent gates are as close as possible, whereas for λSO = 0.1 eV the valley filter efficiency is enhanced when the adjacent gates are far apart to ensure spatial separation of interface states. Hence for λSO = 0 eV we consider Wj = 6.25 nm whereas when λSO = 0.1 eV we increase Wj to 20.8 nm to have the best possible valley filter. Similar to Fig. 4, we consider Δ = 0.1 eV for λSO = 0.1 eV case and this requires Ezo = 5 V nm−1 given l = 0.4 Å, which is practically achievable. For the same Ez and l, in the λSO = 0 eV case we can achieve Δ = 0.2 eV.

The transmission plots in Fig. 7a, b clearly show the superiority of λSO = 0.1 eV case in its robustness to back-scattering. However, as suggested by Fig. 7c, d, Pv degrades a bit in this case compared to the λSO = 0 eV case because of a smaller band gap leading to increased bulk-assisted intervalley scattering. Thus when the same gate voltage is applied, addition of SO coupling to host spatially separated interface states helps us achieve a perfectly quantized T but at the cost of a reduced Pv. In the above comparison, we considered Ezo = 5 V nm−1 where for the λSO = 0.1 eV case we had Δ = 0.1 eV and hence we achieved reasonably good valley filtering whereas for a lower Ezo say, 3 V nm−1, the performance degrades due to a very small Δ of 0.02 eV. The bare minimum one needs to ensure is that λSO < Ezo/l, in order to assure the existence of the QSH/QVH domain walls, and hence the interface states. Hence the best case would be when the QSH as well as the QVH regions have the same gap implying λSO = lEzo/2 for a given Ezo. Thus for Ezo = 5 V nm−1 and l = 0.4 Å, λSO = lEzo/2 = 0.1 eV is the optimal one to get the best yields as valley filter given the interface states are well separated after choosing a suitable Wj.

#### Optimal Wj

One might expect that a larger Wj should ensure a greater degree of robustness for the interface states. However, since we have considered a fixed width for the nanoribbon (Wo = 62.5 nm), invariably increasing Wj implies that the widths of the QVH regions keep decreasing and the interface states move closer to the nanoribbon edges. As a consequence, the interface states start resembling the conventional QSH edge states as shown in Fig. 7e, in which Wj ≈ 60 nm, which then results in diminishing Pv as they move towards the X-point of the Brillouin zone. On the other hand, decreasing Wj also brings the interface states closer from which they interact with each other via tunneling, thus further degrading T via back-scattering. Thus Wj needs to be chosen such that the interface states are neither too close to each other nor too far apart that they come in the vicinity of the nanoribbon edges.

To quantify the above arguments, we consider the spatial extent of the interface states on either side of the domain wall given by the damping length, $$\zeta \,=\,\hslash {v}_{f}/2{{\Delta }}\,=\,\sqrt{(3)}at/4{{\Delta }}$$46,68. One thing to note is that this expression is valid for an abrupt topological phase transition. However, in our case, it is rather smooth over a fringing width of Wf = 3.125 nm. Hence the actual ζ would be slightly larger than what we estimate. It is clear that ζ is inversely proportional to Δ, thus maintaining our earlier conclusion that Δ needs to be large enough for all the QSH as well as QVH regions, so that the interface states are well confined. For the electric field we consider (Ezo = 5 V nm−1) the corresponding optimal λSO was 0.1 eV, thus Δ = 0.1 eV for the QSH as well as QVH regions. The ζ calculated for our case comes out to be 2.25 nm which is in fact smaller than Wf = 3.125 nm and hence we choose ζ = 3.125 nm. Considering exponential variation of the wavefunction along the y-direction on either sides of the domain wall, 96% of the wavefunction remains confined within a distance i.e., three times the damping length ζ, for our case 3ζ ≈ 9.5 nm.

Based on the above calculations, we can conclude for the spatially separated interface states to be decoupled from each other, we require Wj > 2 × 9.5 = 19 nm and to ensure that they do not spread out all the way into the nanoribbon edges Wj < Wo − 2 × 9.5 = 43.5 nm is required. Hence choosing 19 nm < Wj < 43.5 nm, ensures the desirable valley filtering performance both in terms of T and Pv.

Our analytical calculations are also validated by the simulation results in Fig. 7f, where T and Pv are plotted against varying Wj for E − U = 0 and W = 2 eV. The total transmission T remains constant at 2, as we lower Wj before declining rapidly as Wj goes below 20 nm. On the other hand, the valley polarization Pv decreases steadily as we increase Wj, before showing a sudden droop once Wj goes past 40 nm. Thus our choice of Wj = 20.8 nm when Ezo = 5 V nm−1 and λSO = 0.1 eV, as suggested by both our analytical calculations and simulation results, is optimal in terms of both T and Pv. The variation of T and Pv over the entire band gap, for different values of Wj, is illustrated in Fig. 7g, h. One important thing to note is that in our above optimization strategy, we were constrained by the maximum electric field Ezo we can apply and the nanoribbon width Wo, unconstrained by which, we can further enhance the valley filter performance.

### Effect of temperature and vertical electric field

At this stage, we must remark that the analysis done until now is completely based on intervalley and intravalley transmission coefficients at the Fermi level, which actually relates to the zero-bias conductance at absolute zero temperature. Thus, the aforementioned results capturing the transmission at a given energy level (Fermi level), do not take into account the smearing of the Fermi function to levels surrounding the Fermi level at non-zero temperatures. However, to gauge the utility of this proposal for commercial applications one needs to analyze this proposal at non-cryogenic temperatures. In the results given in Fig. 8a, b, we demonstrate the effect of temperature on zero-bias conductance of each valley component (refer Supplementary Note 2 for more details) for the case of Wj = 20.8 nm and λSO = 0.1 eV. It can be observed that as temperature rises, the zero-bias conductance G increases slightly because of the Fermi function smearing into the bulk states. For the same reason, it can also be verified that the valley polarization at high disorder strength degrades with increasing temperature.

A critical limiting factor of our design, as discussed earlier, is the strength of the vertical electric field that can be applied. In Fig. 8c, d we study the effect of varying electric fields on the valley filter performance. Building on our previous findings for each different case of perpendicular field Ezo and hence Δzo, the intrinsic SOI strength λSO which would maximize the performance would be λSO = Δzo/2. The different cases of Δzo chosen are 0.2, 0.12, and 0.08 eV, corresponding to Ezo = 5, 3, and 2 V nm−1, for l = 0.4 Å. As expected, as the value of Δzo goes down, Pv degrades drastically. However, the total transmission T remains unchanged. The given results on varying Δzo also provide useful insights on the effect of varying buckling height that may happen as a result of any mechanical strain on the sample.

In conclusion, we proposed a design for an all-electrical robust valley filter that utilizes topological interface states hosted on monolayer group-IV 2D-Xene materials with large intrinsic SO coupling. In contrast with conventional QSH edge states localized around the X-points, the interface states appearing at the domain wall between topologically distinct phases are either from the K or $$K^{\prime}$$ points, making them suitable prospects for serving as valley-polarized channels. We showed that the presence of a large band-gap quantum spin-Hall effect facilitates the spatial separation of the spin–valley locked helical interface states with the valley states being protected by spin conservation, leading to robustness against short-range nonmagnetic disorder. By adopting the scattering matrix formalism on a suitably designed device structure, valley-resolved transport in the presence of nonmagnetic short-range disorder for different 2D-Xene materials was analyzed in detail. Our numerical simulations confirm the role of SO coupling in achieving an improved valley filter performance with a perfect quantum of conductance attributed to the topologically protected interface states. Our analysis further elaborated clearly the right choice of material, device geometry and other factors that need to be considered while designing an optimized valley filter device. We believe that our work opens the door for researching the utility of the 1D topological conducting channels hosted in the monolayer 2D-Xene bulk for possible applications in valleytronics and spintronics.

## Methods

### Valley-resolved transport calculations

We use the software package "KWANT"69 for calculating the transfer matrix τ, which gives us the transmission amplitude $${\tau }_{{k}_{2},{k}_{1}}$$ from the k1 state of lead L to the k2 state of lead R. The intervalley($${T}_{KK^{\prime} }$$ and $${T}_{K^{\prime} K}$$) and intravalley (TKK and $${T}_{K^{\prime} K^{\prime} }$$), transmission coefficients can be calculated using the following formula24,30:

$${T}_{{K}_{2}{K}_{1}}\,=\,\mathop{\sum}\limits_{{k}_{1}\,\in\, {K}_{1}}\mathop{\sum}\limits_{{k}_{2}\,\in\, {K}_{2}}| {\tau }_{{k}_{2},{k}_{1}}{| }^{2}$$
(5)

Now the transmission coefficient corresponding to scattering into the K-valley in lead R is given by $${T}_{K}\,=\,{T}_{KK}\,+\,{T}_{KK^{\prime} }$$ and similarly $${T}_{K^{\prime} }\,=\,{T}_{K^{\prime} K}\,+\,{T}_{K^{\prime} K^{\prime} }$$. Once we have the valley-resolved transmission coefficients (TK and $${T}_{K^{\prime} }$$), we can now calculate the valley polarization Pv and the total transmission T24,30, the two important metrics to evaluate the performance of a valley filter.

$$Pv\,=\,\frac{{T}_{K}\,-\,{T}_{K^{\prime} }}{{T}_{K}\,+\,{T}_{K^{\prime} }}$$
(6)
$$T\,=\,{T}_{K}\,+\,{T}_{K^{\prime} }.$$
(7)

### Inclusion of Anderson disorder

To evaluate the performance of our valley filter in actual experimental conditions, we subject it to short-range Anderson nonmagnetic disorder which does not break TRS and this can be done by introducing random on-site potential for each site. Despite the Anderson disorder not reflecting all the potential valley-mixing mechanisms in experimental samples, it does provide a computationally efficient means to model the intervalley scattering and allows us to examine the effect of varying parameters such as λSO and Wj on the valley filter performance. This is achieved by adding the term $${\hat{H}}_{W}\,=\,{\sum }_{i\alpha }{\epsilon }_{i}{c}_{i\alpha }^{{\dagger} }{c}_{i\alpha }$$ to the channel Hamitonian, with ϵi being randomly distributed in the interval $$\left[-\frac{W}{2},\frac{W}{2}\right]$$ where W is the disorder strength30,38,39. For each value of W, fifty different random disorder configurations are considered and the results are averaged over all the configurations.

We must remark at this stage that only static impurities inside the channel are considered within the above approach of subjecting the channel to short-range Anderson nonmagnetic disorder. An unexplored frontier in terms of understanding the stability of topological edge/interface states is the inclusion of momentum relaxing dephasing70,71,72 phase breaking processes73,74,75 and ultimately inelastic scattering processes76,77, that can be well facilitated by using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green’s function approach78.

## Data availability

The data that support the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

## Code availability

The codes generated during the simulation study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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## Acknowledgements

The research and development work undertaken in the project under the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), Government of India, is implemented by Digital India Corporation (formerly Media Lab Asia). This work is also supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, Grant No. Grant No. STR/2019/000030, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, Grant No. STARS/APR2019/NS/226/FS under the STARS scheme.

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