• 文献标题:   Electron-electron and spin-orbit interactions in armchair graphene ribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZAREA M, SANDLER N
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ohio Univ
  • 被引频次:   42
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.256804
  • 出版年:   2007

▎ 摘  要

The effects of intrinsic spin-orbit and Coulomb interactions on low-energy properties of finite width graphene armchair ribbons are studied by means of a Dirac Hamiltonian. It is shown that metallic states subsist in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit interactions as spin-filtered edge states, in contrast with the insulating behavior predicted for graphene planes. A charge-gap opens due to Coulomb interactions in neutral ribbons, that vanishes as Delta similar to 1/W, with a gapless spin sector. Weak intrinsic spin-orbit interactions do not change the insulating behavior. Explicit expressions for the width-dependent gap and various correlation functions are presented.