• 文献标题:   Half-metallic quantum valley Hall effect in biased zigzag-edge bilayer graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LEE KW, LEE CE
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.95.085145
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We have investigated electron-electron interaction effects on gapless edge states in the antiferromagnetic phase of zigzag-edge bilayer graphene nanoribbons under a voltage bias between the layers by using a tight-binding model with on-site Coulomb interactions. We found that a zigzag-edge bilayer graphene nanoribbon can have gapless edge states corresponding to peculiar topologically nontrivial insulator phases, such as a half-metallic quantum valley Hall phase. The half-metallicity was found to be due to the on-site Coulomb interactions through which excess charges produced by the voltage bias between the layers give rise to the potential difference between the opposite edges. A topological phase diagram in the antiferromagnetic phase of a zigzag-edge bilayer graphene nanoribbon was determined as a function of the bias voltage and the ribbon width. The quantum confinement effect, which was found to be graphene-like for narrow ribbons and to be bilayer graphene-like for wide ribbons, was also confirmed to play an important role in determining the topologically nontrivial insulator phases.