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通过吸附原子沉积在石墨烯中设计稳健的量子自旋霍尔态

Engineering a robust quantum spin Hall state in graphene via adatom deposition

Conan Weeks, Jun Hu, Jason Alicea, Marcel Franz, Ruqian Wu

摘要:

2007年碲化汞量子阱量子电导的发现,为拓扑绝缘体(TI)领域提供了第一个实验证实。虽然许多三维TI已经被确定,碲化汞仍然是唯一已知的二维系统在这一类。此外,HgTe量子阱的制造困难阻碍了它们的广泛应用。为了打破这一僵局,我们提供了一个蓝图,用于稳定一个强大的TI状态在一个更容易获得的二维材料-石墨烯。利用对称性论证、密度泛函理论和紧束缚模拟,我们预测了具有一定重吸附原子的石墨烯实现了具有显著带隙的TI。对于铟和铊,我们最有希望的吸附原子候选者,适度的6%的覆盖率产生的估计差距接近80 K和240 K,分别,这应该是可检测的运输或光谱测量。在石墨烯中设计这样一个强大的拓扑相可以为新一代自旋电子学,超低耗散电子学和量子信息处理设备铺平道路。

英文摘要:

The 2007 discovery of quantized conductance in HgTe quantum wells delivered the field of topological insulators (TIs) its first experimental confirmation. While many three-dimensional TIs have since been identified, HgTe remains the only known two-dimensional system in this class. Difficulty fabricating HgTe quantum wells has, moreover, hampered their widespread use. With the goal of breaking this logjam we provide a blueprint for stabilizing a robust TI state in a more readily available two-dimensional material---graphene. Using symmetry arguments, density functional theory, and tight-binding simulations, we predict that graphene endowed with certain heavy adatoms realizes a TI with substantial band gap. For indium and thallium, our most promising adatom candidates, a modest 6% coverage produces an estimated gap near 80K and 240K, respectively, which should be detectable in transport or spectroscopic measurements. Engineering such a robust topological phase in graphene could pave the way for a new generation of devices for spintronics, ultra-low-dissipation electronics and quantum information processing.

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