• 文献标题:   Transport gap in suspended bilayer graphene at zero magnetic field
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VELIGURA A, VAN ELFEREN HJ, TOMBROS N, MAAN JC, ZEITLER U, VAN WEES BJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Groningen
  • 被引频次:   43
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155412
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We report a change of three orders of magnitude in the resistance of a suspended bilayer graphene flake which varies from a few k Omega in the high-carrier-density regime to several M Omega around the charge neutrality point (CNP). The corresponding transport gap is 8 meV at 0.3 K. The sequence of quantum Hall plateaus appearing at filling factor nu = 2 followed by nu = 1 suggests that the observed gap is caused by the symmetry breaking of the lowest Landau level. Investigation of the gap in a tilted magnetic fields indicates that the resistance at the CNP shows a weak linear decrease for increasing total magnetic field. Those observations are in agreement with a spontaneous valley splitting at zero magnetic field followed by splitting of the spins originating from different valleys with increasing magnetic field. Both the transport gap and B field response point toward the spin-polarized layer-antiferromagnetic state as the ground state in the bilayer graphene sample. The observed nontrivial dependence of the gap value on the normal component of B suggests possible exchange mechanisms in the system.