• 文献标题:   Chiral orbital current and anomalous magnetic moment in gapped graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KOSHINO M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tohoku Univ
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.125427
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We present a low-energy effective-mass theory to describe a chiral orbital current and an anomalous magnetic moment in graphenes with a band gap and related materials. We explicitly derive a quantum-mechanical current distribution in general Bloch electron systems, which describes a chiral current circulation supporting the magnetic moment. We apply the formulation to gapped graphene monolayer, bilayer, and ABC-stacked multilayers to show that the chiral current is opposite between different valleys, and the corresponding magnetic moment accounts for valley splitting of Landau levels. In a gapped bilayer and ABC multilayer graphenes, in particular, the valley-dependent magnetic moment is responsible for huge paramagnetic susceptibility at low energy, which enables a full valley polarization up to relatively high electron densities. The formulation also applies to the gapped surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator, where the anomalous current is related to the magnetoelectric response in a spatially modulated potential.