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硅烯中谷极化金属与量子反常霍尔效应

Valley-Polarized Metals and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Silicene

Motohiko Ezawa

摘要:

硅烯是形成二维蜂窝晶格的硅原子单层,其与石墨烯几乎具有所有显着的性质。硅烯的低能结构由具有相对大的自旋轨道相互作用的狄拉克电子描述,这是由于其屈曲结构。关键的观察是,能带结构是可控的,通过施加电场硅烯片。我们探讨了硅烯的相图与交换场$M$和通过施加电场$E_{z}$。出现了量子反常霍尔绝缘体(QAH)、谷极化金属(VPM)、边缘谷极化金属(M-VPM)、量子自旋霍尔绝缘体(QSH)和能带绝缘体(BI)。它们的特征在于陈数和/或由纳米粒子的边缘模式。有趣的是,在VPM中,电子已经从K点处的导带移动到$E_{z}>0$的K'点处的价带。我们发现,在QAH阶段,平坦的无隙边缘模式出现,自旋形成一个动量空间skyrmion产生的陈数。值得注意的是,通过简单地改变单层硅烯中的电场,可以诱导拓扑量子相变。

英文摘要:

Silicene is a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, which shares almost every remarkable property with graphene. The low energy structure of silicene is described by Dirac electrons with relatively large spin-orbit interactions due to its buckled structure. The key observation is that the band structure is controllable by applying the electric field to a silicene sheet. We explore the phase diagram of silicene together with exchange field $M$ and by applying electric field $E_{z}$. There appear quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator, valley polarized metal (VPM), marginal valley polarized metal (M-VPM), quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator and band insulator (BI). They are characterized by the Chern numbers and/or by the edge modes of a nanoribbon. It is intriguing that electrons have been moved from a conduction band at the K point to a valence band at the K' point for $E_{z}>0$ in the VPM. We find in the QAH phase that flat gapless edge modes emerge and that spins form a momentum-space skyrmion to yield the Chern number. It is remarkable that a topological quantum phase transition can be induced simply by changing electric field in a single silicene sheet.

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