• 文献标题:   New generation of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under external periodic potentials
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PARK CH, YANG L, SON YW, COHEN ML, LOUIE SG
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Berkeley
  • 被引频次:   270
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.126804
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We show that new massless Dirac fermions are generated when a slowly varying periodic potential is applied to graphene. These quasiparticles, generated near the supercell Brillouin zone boundaries with anisotropic group velocity, are different from the original massless Dirac fermions. The quasiparticle wave vector (measured from the new Dirac point), the generalized pseudospin vector, and the group velocity are not collinear. We further show that with an appropriate periodic potential of triangular symmetry, there exists an energy window over which the only available states are these quasiparticles, thus providing a good system to probe experimentally the new massless Dirac fermions. The required parameters of external potentials are within the realm of laboratory conditions.