• 文献标题:   The effect of electron-A(1g) phonon coupling in spin-orbit-coupled graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KANDEMIR BS, AKAY D
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, rashba spinorbit coupling, electronphonon interaction
  • 出版物名称:   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
  • ISSN:   1478-6435 EI 1478-6443
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ankara Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1080/14786435.2017.1328137
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the effects of electron-A(1g) phonon and Rashba spin-orbit couplings on the electronic spectrum of pristine graphene charge carriers. We introduce a Frohlich-type Hamiltonian describing the electron-phonon interaction in spin-orbit-coupled graphene, and propose a diagonalisation procedure to solve this Hamiltonian based on the Lee-Low-Pines theory which includes two successive unitary transformations. By means of these transformations, our results show that, in spin-orbit-coupled graphene, electron-A1g phonon interaction lifts the degeneracy of two zero-gap branches and enhances the existing gap between other two branches. It is also found that the magnitude of the splitting in ungapped branches depends on the strength of spin-orbit interaction, and thus the emerging gap can be tuned by spin-orbit interaction.