• 文献标题:   Tetragonal Mexican-hat dispersion and switchable half-metal state with multiple anisotropic Weyl fermions in penta-graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIA NN, SHI YT, LV ZH, QIN JT, CAI JT, JIANG X, ZHAO JJ, LIU ZF
  • 作者关键词:   mexicanhat dispersion, carbon allotrope, roomtemperature halfmetal, anisotropic weyl state, holedoping
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/acc608
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Due to the paired valence electrons configuration, all known two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotropes are intrinsically nonmagnetic. Based on the reported 2D carbon structure database and first-principles calculations, herein we demonstrate that inherent ferromagnetism can be obtained in the prominent allotrope, penta-graphene, which has a unique Mexican-hat valence band edge, giving rise to van Hove singularities and electronic instability. Induced by modest hole-doping that is achievable in electrolyte gate, the semiconducting penta-graphene can be transformed into different ferromagnetic half-metals with room-temperature stability and switchable spin directions. In particular, multiple anisotropic Weyl states, including type-I and type-II Weyl cones and hybrid quasi Weyl nodal loop, can be found in a sizable energy window of spin-down half-metal under proper strains. These findings not only identify a promising carbon allotrope to obtain the inherent magnetism for carbon-based spintronic devices, but highlight the possibility to realize different Weyl states by combining the electronic and mechanical means as well.