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arXiv 2210.08152cond-mat.mes-hall
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石墨烯器件中量子霍尔边缘通道的边缘重构缺失

Absence of edge reconstruction for quantum Hall edge channels in graphene devices

Alexis Coissard, Adolfo G. Grushin, Cécile Repellin, Louis Veyrat, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frédéric Gay, Hervé Courtois, Hermann Sellier, Benjamin Sacépé

AI总结:

本研究通过扫描隧道谱学证明石墨烯量子霍尔边缘态无静电重构,由波函数消失边界条件定义,形成理想一维手性通道。

摘要:

拓扑绝缘体中的电子边缘态已成为物理学中的一个重要范式。最古老且主要的例子是量子霍尔(QH)边缘通道,它们在垂直磁场下沿二维电子气(2DEGs)的周边传播。然而,尽管经过40年使用各种输运和扫描探针技术的深入研究,对量子霍尔边缘通道实空间结构的成像仍被证明是困难的,这主要是由于半导体中大多数二维电子气的埋藏性质。在这里,我们通过执行扫描隧道谱学直至六方氮化硼上石墨烯薄片的边缘,表明石墨烯中的量子霍尔边缘态被限制在晶体边缘的几个磁长度内。这些发现表明,量子霍尔边缘态由晶体边缘处电子波函数消失的边界条件定义,从而产生理想的一维手性通道,没有静电重构。我们进一步证明了边缘处均匀的载流子密度,这与关于非拓扑上游模式存在的猜想形成对比。量子霍尔边缘态静电重构的缺失对基于石墨烯的系统和其他二维晶体材料中电子和热输运实验的普遍性具有深远影响。

英文摘要:

Electronic edge states in topological insulators have become a major paradigm in physics. The oldest and primary example is that of quantum Hall (QH) edge channels that propagate along the periphery of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) under perpendicular magnetic field. Yet, despite 40 years of intensive studies using a variety of transport and scanning probe techniques, imaging the real-space structure of QH edge channels has proven difficult, mainly due to the buried nature of most 2DEGs in semiconductors. Here, we show that QH edge states in graphene are confined to a few magnetic lengths at the crystal edges by performing scanning tunneling spectroscopy up to the edge of a graphene flake on hexagonal boron nitride. These findings indicate that QH edge states are defined by boundary conditions of vanishing electronic wavefunctions at the crystal edges, resulting in ideal one-dimensional chiral channels, free of electrostatic reconstruction. We further evidence a uniform charge carrier density at the edges, contrasting with conjectures on the existence of non-topological upstream modes. The absence of electrostatic reconstruction of quantum Hall edge states has profound implications for the universality of electron and heat transport experiments in graphene-based systems and other 2D crystalline materials.

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