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石墨烯中固有的自旋轨道耦合能隙和拓扑态的证据

Intrinsic spin-orbit coupling gap and the evidence of a topological state in graphene

Jonas Sichau, Marta Prada, Timothy J. Lyon, Bojan Bosnjak, Tim Anlauf, Lars Tiemann, Robert H. Blick

摘要:

2005年Kane & Mele[C. L. Kane和E. J. Mele,Phys. Rev. Lett. 95,226801(2005)]预测,在足够低的能量下,石墨烯表现出具有由原子自旋-轨道相互作用产生的能隙的物质拓扑状态。然而,这一内在差距迄今尚未得到衡量。在这封信中,我们利用低能量状态的手性来解决这个差距。我们探测自旋态实验,采用低温微波激发在一个连续检测的电子自旋共振石墨烯。拓扑带的结构反映在我们的传输实验中,我们的数值模型使我们能够识别共振签名。我们确定的内在自旋轨道体带隙为42.2 μeV。电子-自旋共振实验可以揭示在低磁场下产生的内在自旋-轨道耦合与经典塞曼能量之间的竞争,并证明石墨烯仍然是具有令人惊讶的性质的材料。

英文摘要:

In 2005 Kane & Mele[C. L. Kane and E. J. Mele, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005)], predicted that at sufficiently low energy, graphene exhibits a topological state of matter with an energy gap generated by the atomic spin-orbit interaction. However, this intrinsic gap has not been measured to this date. In this letter, we exploit the chirality of the low energy states to resolve this gap. We probe the spin states experimentally, by employing low temperature microwave excitation in a resistively detected electron spin resonance on graphene. The structure of the topological bands is reflected in our transport experiments, where our numerical models allow us to identify the resonance signatures. We determine the intrinsic spin-orbit bulk gap to be exactly 42.2 μeV. Electron-spin resonance experiments can reveal the competition between the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and classical Zeeman energy that arises at low magnetic fields and demonstrate that graphene remains to be a material with surprising properties.

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