• 文献标题:   Creating in-plane pseudomagnetic fields in excess of 1000 T by misoriented stacking in a graphene bilayer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HE WY, SU Y, YANG MD, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   26
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.89.125418
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

It is well established that some kinds of lattice deformations in graphene monolayer, which change electron hopping in the sublattice and affect in-plane motion of electrons, may induce out-of-plane pseudomagnetic fields as large as 100 T. Here, we demonstrate that stacking misorientation in graphene bilayers mimics the effect of huge in-plane pseudomagnetic fields greater than 1000 T on the interlayer hopping of electrons. As well as addressing the similarity between the effect of in-plane pseudomagnetic fields and the twisting on the electronic band structure of the Bernal graphene bilayer, we point out that the in-plane magnetic fields (or twisting) could modify the low-energy pseudospin texture of the graphene bilayer (the pseudospin winding number is reduced from 2 to 1), thereby changing the chiralities of quasiparticles from those of spin 1 to those of spin 1/2. Our results illustrate the possibility of controllably manipulating electronic properties of Bernal graphene bilayer by introducing the in-plane magnetic field or twisting.