• 文献标题:   Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG F
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, rhombohedral stacking, electronelectron interaction, spontaneous symmetry breaking, topological state, hall conductivity
  • 出版物名称:   SYNTHETIC METALS
  • ISSN:   0379-6779
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Texas Dallas
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.synthmet.2015.07.028
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Bilayer graphene and its thicker cousins with Rhombohedral stacking have attracted considerable attention because of their susceptibility to a variety of broken chiral symmetry states. Due to large density-of-states and quantized Berry phases near their gapless band touching points, each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers to yield opening of energy gaps in quasiparticle spectra and spreading of momentum-space Berry curvatures. In this article we review the development of theories that predicted such chiral symmetry breaking and classified the possible topological many-body ground states, and the observations in recent experiments that are in reasonable agreement with these theories. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.