• 文献标题:   Effects of site asymmetry and valley mixing on Hofstadter-type spectra of bilayer graphene in a square-scatter array potential
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HUANG DH, IUROV A, GUMBS G, ZHEMCHUZHNA L
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, valley mixing, hofstadter, site energy
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Space Vehicles Directorate
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-648X/aafd01
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Under a magnetic field perpendicular to an monolayer graphene, the existence of a two-dimensional periodic scatter array can not only mix Landau levels of the same valley for displaying split electron-hole Hofstadter-type energy spectra, but also couple two sets of Landau subbands from different valleys in a bilayer graphene. Such a valley mixing effect with a strong scattering strength has been found observable and studied thoroughly in this paper by using a Bloch-wave expansion approach and a projected 2 x 2 effective Hamiltonian including interlayer effective mass, interlayer coupling and asymmetrical on-site energies due to a vertically-applied electric field. For bilayer graphene, we find two important characteristics, i.e. mixing and interference of intervalley scatterings in the presence of a scatter array, as well as a perpendicular-field induced site-energy asymmetry which deforms severely or even destroys completely the Hofstadter-type band structures due to the dependence of Bloch-wave expansion coefficients on the applied electric field.