• 文献标题:   Graphene on incommensurate substrates: Trigonal warping and emerging Dirac cone replicas with halved group velocity
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ORTIX C, YANG LP, VAN DEN BRINK J
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   IFW Dresden
  • 被引频次:   59
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.86.081405
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

The adhesion of graphene on slightly lattice-mismatched surfaces, for instance, of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or Ir(111), gives rise to a complex landscape of sublattice symmetry-breaking potentials for the Dirac fermions. Whereas a gap at the Dirac point opens for perfectly lattice-matched graphene on hBN, we show that the small lattice incommensurability prevents the opening of this gap and rather leads to a renormalized Dirac dispersion with a trigonal warping. This warping breaks the effective time-reversal symmetry in a single valley. On top of this an additional set of massless Dirac fermions is generated, which is characterized by a group velocity that is about half the one of pristine graphene.