• 文献标题:   Perfect one-dimensional chiral states in biased twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TSIM B, NAM NNT, KOSHINO M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Manchester
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.101.125409
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

We theoretically study the electronic structure of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene with a large potential asymmetry between the top and bottom layers. We show that the emergent topological channels known to appear on the triangular AB-BA domain boundary do not actually form a percolating network, but instead, they provide independent, perfect one-dimensional eigenmodes propagating in three different directions. Using the continuum-model Hamiltonian, we demonstrate that an applied bias causes two well-defined energy windows which contain sparsely distributed one-dimensional eigenmodes. The origin of these energy windows can be understood using a two-band model of the intersecting electron and hole bands of single-layer graphene. We also use the tight-binding model to implement the lattice deformations in twisted bilayer graphene and discuss the effect of lattice relaxation on the one-dimensional eigenmodes.