• 文献标题:   Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GREENAWAY MT, VDOVIN EE, MISHCHENKO A, MAKAROVSKY O, PATANE A, WALLBANK JR, CAO Y, KRETININ AV, ZHU MJ, MOROZOV SV, FAL KO VI, NOVOSELOV KS, GEIM AK, FROMHOLD TM, EAVES L
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1745-2473 EI 1745-2481
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Nottingham
  • 被引频次:   34
  • DOI:   10.1038/NPHYS3507
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

A class of multilayered functional materials has recently emerged in which the component atomic layers are held together by weak van der Waals forces that preserve the structural integrity and physical properties of each layer. An exemplar of such a structure is a transistor device in which relativistic Dirac fermions can resonantly tunnel through a boron nitride barrier, a few atomic layers thick, sandwiched between two graphene electrodes. An applied magnetic field quantizes graphene's gapless conduction and valence band states into discrete Landau levels, allowing us to resolve individual inter-Landau-level transitions and thereby demonstrate that the energy, momentum and chiral properties of the electrons are conserved in the tunnelling process. We also demonstrate that the change in the semiclassical cyclotron trajectories, following an inter-layer tunnelling event, is analogous to the case of intra-layer Klein tunnelling.