• 文献标题:   Screening Charged Impurities and Lifting the Orbital Degeneracy in Graphene by Populating Landau Levels
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LUICANMAYER A, KHARITONOV M, LI GH, LU CP, SKACHKO I, GONCALVES AMB, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, ANDREI EY
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rutgers State Univ
  • 被引频次:   49
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.036804
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We report the observation of an isolated charged impurity in graphene and present direct evidence of the close connection between the screening properties of a 2D electron system and the influence of the impurity on its electronic environment. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and Landau level spectroscopy, we demonstrate that in the presence of a magnetic field the strength of the impurity can be tuned by controlling the occupation of Landau-level states with a gate voltage. At low occupation the impurity is screened, becoming essentially invisible. Screening diminishes as states are filled until, for fully occupied Landau levels, the unscreened impurity significantly perturbs the spectrum in its vicinity. In this regime we report the first observation of Landau-level splitting into discrete states due to lifting the orbital degeneracy.