• 文献标题:   Emergence of Massless Dirac Fermions in Graphene's Hofstadter Butterfly at Switches of the Quantum Hall Phase Connectivity
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DIEZ M, DAHLHAUS JP, WIMMER M, BEENAKKER CWJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Leiden Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.196602
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

The fractal spectrum of magnetic minibands (Hofstadter butterfly), induced by the moire superlattice of graphene on a hexagonal crystal substrate, is known to exhibit gapped Dirac cones. We show that the gap can be closed by slightly misaligning the substrate, producing a hierarchy of conical singularities (Dirac points) in the band structure at rational values phi= (p / q) (h / e) of the magnetic flux per supercell. Each Dirac point signals a switch of the topological quantum number in the connected component of the quantum Hall phase diagram. Model calculations reveal the scale-invariant conductivity sigma = 2qe(2) / pi h and Klein tunneling associated with massless Dirac fermions at these connectivity switches.