• 文献标题:   Possible quantized charge pump in bilayer and trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG MJ, WANG J, LIU JF
  • 作者关键词:   quantized pump, charge transport, multilayer graphene, noninteracting electron system
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Southeast Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/ab69b6
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

We report a theoretic study of the two-parameter adiabatic charge pump based on the bilayer and trilayer graphene systems. The two perpendicular time-dependent electric fields with a phase lag between them are taken as the pumping potentials, which induce an instant energy gap in each pumping region. Based on both a continuum model and a lattice model, we show that the pumping results from the bilayer and trilayer graphene systems are very different when the Fermi energy happens to reside in the opened energy gap: there is no pumping current for the bilayer system whereas a quantized charge pumping effect emerges in the trilayer-graphene based pump device. This difference can be accounted for by the different Berry phases of Dirac electrons in the two systems. Our findings may shed a light on developing a quantized charge pumping device.