• 文献标题:   Pure valley-polarized current in graphene junction induced by circularly polarized light and carrier mass
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHANG LL, WU QP, LI YZ, ZHANG RL, LIU MR, LI WY, LIU FF, XIAO XB, LIU ZF
  • 作者关键词:   valleytronic, graphene junction, valley polarization, valleypolarized current, circularly polarized light, valley switch effect
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2021.114681 EA MAR 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

In this work, we presented a workable scheme to induce valley polarized current in a graphene junction with circularly polarized light and carrier mass. A non-linear effect of the circularly polarized light opens a gap in the Dirac cone. The mass term corresponding to a symmetry-breaking perturbation admits a band gap. The result shows that a valley-dependent energy gap can be opened in the presence of both circularly polarized light and carrier mass. We found that pure valley-polarized current is achieved in the valley-dependent energy gap. However, only one of the two modulations is present, no valley polarization can be generated. So the combination of the two modulations provides a new way to producing the pure valley current in the graphene system.