• 文献标题:   Topological phases in gated bilayer graphene: Effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and exchange field
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   QIAO ZH, LI XA, TSE WK, JIANG H, YAO YG, NIU QA
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Texas Austin
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.87.125405
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We present a systematic study on the influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, interlayer potential difference, and exchange field on the topological properties of bilayer graphene. In the presence of only Rashba spin-orbit coupling and interlayer potential difference, the band gap opening due to broken out-of-plane inversion symmetry offers new possibilities of realizing tunable topological phase transitions by varying an external gate voltage. We find a two-dimensional Z(2) topological insulator phase and a quantum valley Hall phase in AB-stacked bilayer graphene and obtain their effective low-energy Hamiltonians near the Dirac points. For AA stacking, we do not find any topological insulator phase in the presence of large Rashba spin-orbit coupling. When the exchange field is also turned on, the bilayer system exhibits a rich variety of topological phases including a quantum anomalous Hall phase, and we obtain the phase diagram as a function of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, interlayer potential difference, and exchange field. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.125405