• 文献标题:   Periodic Landau gauge and quantum Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HASEGAWA Y, KOHMOTO M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hyogo
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125426
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Energy versus magnetic field (Hofstadter butterfly diagram) in twisted bilayer graphene is studied theoretically. If we take the usual Landau gauge, we cannot take a finite periodicity even when the magnetic flux through a supercell is a rational number. We show that the periodic Landau gauge, which has the periodicity in one direction, makes it possible to obtain the Hofstadter butterfly diagram. Since a supercell can be large, magnetic flux through a supercell normalized by the flux quantum can be a fractional number with a small denominator, even when a magnetic field is not extremely strong. As a result, quantized Hall conductance can be a solution of the Diophantine equation which cannot be obtained by the approximation of the linearized energy dispersion near the Dirac points.