• 文献标题:   Electronic topological transition in sliding bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SON YW, CHOI SM, HONG YP, WOO S, JHI SH
  • 作者关键词:  
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Inst Adv Study
  • 被引频次:   46
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.155410
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when an extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon originates from a generation of an effective non-Abelian vector potential in the Dirac Hamiltonian by the sliding motions. The characteristics of the transition such as pair annihilations of massless Dirac fermions are dictated by the sliding direction owing to a unique interplay between the effective non-Abelian gauge fields and Berry's phases associated with massless electrons. The transition manifests itself in various measurable quantities such as anomalous density of states, minimal conductivity, and distinct Landau level spectrum.