• 文献标题:   Commensuration and interlayer coherence in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MELE EJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Penn
  • 被引频次:   211
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.81.161405
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

The low-energy electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are studied using a long-wavelength theory applicable to general commensurate fault angles. Lattice commensuration requires lowenergy electronic coherence across a fault and pre-empts massless Dirac behavior near the neutrality point. Sublattice exchange symmetry distinguishes two families of commensurate faults that have distinct low-energy spectra which can be interpreted as energy-renormalized forms of the spectra for the limiting Bernal and AA stacked structures. Sublattice-symmetric faults are generically fully gapped systems due to a pseudospin-orbit coupling appearing in their effective low-energy Hamiltonians.