• 文献标题:   Symmetry-enforced nodal lines in the band structures of vacancy-engineered graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DE SOUSA MSM, LIU FJ, MALARD M, QU FY, CHEN W
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.105.155414
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

We elaborate that single-layer graphene with periodic vacancies can have a band structure containing nodal lines or nodal loops, opening the possibility of graphene-based electronic or spintronic devices with novel functionalities. The principle is that by removing carbon atoms such that the lattice becomes nonsymmorphic, every two sublattices in the unit cell will map to each other under glide plane operation. This mapping yields degenerate eigenvalues for the glide plane operation, which guarantees that the energy bands must stick together pairwise at a boundary of the Brillouin zone. Moving away from the Brillouin zone boundary causes the symmetry-enforced nodal lines to split, resulting in accidental nodal lines caused by the crossings of the split bands. Moreover, the density of states at the Fermi level may be dramatically enhanced if the nodal lines cross the Fermi level. The nodal lines occur in a variety of vacancy configurations even in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Finally, our theory also explains the nodal loops surrounding the entire Brillouin zone of chevron-type nanoporous graphene fabricated in a recent experiment.