• 文献标题:   Lattice-induced double-valley degeneracy lifting in graphene by a magnetic field
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LUK YANCHUK IA, BRATKOVSKY AM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Picardie Jules Verne
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.176404
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We show that the recently discovered double-valley splitting of the Landau levels in the quantum Hall effect in graphene can be explained as the perturbative orbital interaction of intravalley and intervalley microscopic orbital currents with a magnetic field. This effect is facilitated by the translationally noninvariant terms that correspond to graphene's crystallographic honeycomb symmetry but do not exist in the relativistic theory of massless Dirac fermions in quantum electrodynamics. We discuss recent data in view of these findings.