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arXiv 0803.0306cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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周期势作用下石墨烯中无质量Dirac费米子的各向异性行为

Anisotropic behaviors of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potential

Cheol-Hwan Park, Li Yang, Young-Woo Son, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie

摘要:

石墨烯的载流子在狄拉克点附近表现出类似中微子的线性能量色散和手性行为。在这里,我们报告了这些载流子在外加周期电位下的极不寻常和意想不到的行为,即,在石墨烯超晶格中。群速度高度各向异性地重新归一化,甚至达到这样的程度,即波矢在一个方向上的状态根本不改变,但在另一个方向上减少到零,这意味着人们可以用石墨烯制造纳米级电子电路,而不是通过切割它,而是通过以非破坏性的方式在它上面绘制。此外,载流子种类(例如电子、空穴或开放轨道)的类型及其状态密度随着费米能量而急剧变化,使得能够利用栅极电压显著地调谐费米表面主导性质。这些结果解决了手征无质量狄拉克费米子如何在周期性势中传播的基本问题,并为纳米电子学指出了一条新的可能途径。

英文摘要:

Charge carriers of graphene show neutrino-like linear energy dispersions as well as chiral behavior near the Dirac point. Here we report highly unusual and unexpected behaviors of these carriers in applied external periodic potentials, i.e., in graphene superlattices. The group velocity renormalizes highly anisotropically even to a degree that it is not changed at all for states with wavevector in one direction but is reduced to zero in another, implying the possibility that one can make nanoscale electronic circuits out of graphene not by cutting it but by drawing on it in a non-destructive way. Also, the type of charge carrier species (e.g. electron, hole or open orbit) and their density of states vary drastically with the Fermi energy, enabling one to tune the Fermi surface-dominant properties significantly with gate voltage. These results address the fundamental question of how chiral massless Dirac fermions propagate in periodic potentials and point to a new possible path for nanoscale electronics.

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