• 文献标题:   Splitting of Van Hove singularities in slightly twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI SY, LIU KQ, YIN LJ, WANG WX, YAN W, YANG XQ, YANG JK, LIU HW, JIANG H, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Soochow Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155416
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A variety of new and interesting electronic properties have been predicted in graphene monolayer doped to Van Hove singularities (VHSs) of its density of state. However, tuning the Fermi energy to reach a VHS of graphene by either gating or chemical doping is prohibitively difficult, owing to their large energy distance (similar to 3 eV). This difficulty can be easily overcome in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). By introducing a small twist angle between two adjacent graphene sheets, we are able to generate two low-energy VHSs arbitrarily approaching the Fermi energy. Here, we report experimental studies of electronic properties around the VHSs of a slightly TBG through scanning tunneling microscopy measurements. The split of the VHSs is observed and the spatial symmetry breaking of electronic states around the VHSs is directly visualized. These exotic results provide motivation for further theoretical and experimental studies of graphene systems around the VHSs.