• 文献标题:   Breakdown of the Interlayer Coherence in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM Y, YUN H, NAM SG, SON M, LEE DS, KIM DC, SEO S, CHOI HC, LEE HJ, LEE SW, KIM JS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Pohang Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   43
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.096602
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Coherent motion of electrons in Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of charge conduction in solid-state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when the interlayer coupling is significantly reduced by, e. g., a large interlayer separation. We report that complete suppression of coherent conduction is realized even in an atomic length scale of layer separation in twisted bilayer graphene. The interlayer resistivity of twisted bilayer graphene is much higher than the c-axis resistivity of Bernal-stacked graphite and exhibits strong dependence on temperature as well as on external electric fields. These results suggest that the graphene layers are significantly decoupled by rotation and incoherent conduction is a main transport channel between the layers of twisted bilayer graphene. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.096602