• 文献标题:   Landau Levels and Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene Superlattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PARK CH, SON YW, YANG L, COHEN ML, LOUIE SG
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Berkeley
  • 被引频次:   119
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.046808
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We show that, when graphene is subjected to an appropriate one-dimensional external periodic potential, additional branches of massless fermions are generated with nearly the same electron-hole crossing energy as that at the original Dirac point of graphene. Because of these new zero-energy branches, the Landau levels at charge neutral filling become 4(2N + 1)-fold degenerate (with N 0, 1, 2,..., tunable by the potential strength and periodicity) with the corresponding Hall conductivity sigma(xy) showing a step of size 4(2N + 1)e(2)/h. These theoretical findings are robust against variations in the details of the external potential and provide measurable signatures of the unusual electronic structure of graphene superlattices.