• 文献标题:   Observation of chirality transition of quasiparticles at stacking solitons in trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YIN LJ, WANG WX, ZHANG Y, OU YY, ZHANG HT, SHEN CY, 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:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.95.081402
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Trilayer graphene (TLG) exhibits rich, alternative electronic properties and extraordinary quantum Hall phenomena owing to enhanced electronic interactions and tunable chirality of its quasiparticles. Here, we report direct observation of chirality transition of quasiparticles at stacking solitons of TLG via spatial-resolved Landau level spectroscopy. The one-dimensional stacking solitons with width of the order of 10 nm separate adjacent Bernal-stacked TLG and rhombohedral-stacked TLG. By using high-field tunneling spectra from scanning tunneling microscopy, we measured Landau quantization in both the Bernal-stacked TLG and the rhombohedral-stacked TLG and, importantly, we observed evolution of quasiparticles between the chiral degree l = 1 and 2 and l = 3 across the stacking domain-wall solitons. Our experiment indicates that such a chirality transition occurs smoothly, accompanying the transition of the stacking orders of TLG, around the domain-wall solitons. This result demonstrates the important relationship between the crystallographic stacking order and the chirality of quasiparticles in graphene systems.