• 文献标题:   Generation of Pure Bulk Valley Current in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIANG YJ, LOW T, CHANG K, KATSNELSON MI, GUINEA F
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   136
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.046601
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

The generation of valley current is a fundamental goal in graphene valleytronics but no practical ways of its realization are known yet. We propose a workable scheme for the generation of bulk valley current in a graphene mechanical resonator through adiabatic cyclic deformations of the strains and a chemical potential in the suspended region. The accompanied strain gauge fields can break the spatial mirror symmetry of the problem within each of the two inequivalent valleys, leading to a finite valley current due to quantum pumping. An all-electrical measurement configuration is designed to detect the novel state with pure bulk valley currents. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.046601