Seiler Anna M, Jacobsen Nils, Statz Martin, Fernandez Noelia, Falorsi Francesca, Watanabe Kenji, Taniguchi Takashi, Dong Zhiyu, Levitov Leonid S, Weitz R Thomas
1st Physical Institute, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen, Germany.
Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Japan.
Nat Commun. 2024 Apr 11;15(1):3133. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47342-0.
Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a highly flexible platform for tuning the band structure, featuring two distinct regimes. One is a tunable band gap induced by large displacement fields. Another is a gapless metallic band occurring at low fields, featuring rich fine structure consisting of four linearly dispersing Dirac cones and van Hove singularities. Even though BLG has been extensively studied experimentally, the evidence of this band structure is still elusive, likely due to insufficient energy resolution. Here, we use Landau levels as markers of the energy dispersion and analyze the Landau level spectrum in a regime where the cyclotron orbits of electrons or holes in momentum space are small enough to resolve the distinct mini Dirac cones. We identify the presence of four Dirac cones and map out topological transitions induced by displacement field. By clarifying the low-energy properties of BLG bands, these findings provide a valuable addition to the toolkit for graphene electronics.
伯纳尔双层石墨烯(BLG)为调节能带结构提供了一个高度灵活的平台,具有两种不同的状态。一种是由大位移场诱导的可调带隙。另一种是在低场出现的无隙金属带,其具有由四个线性色散狄拉克锥和范霍夫奇点组成的丰富精细结构。尽管BLG已在实验中得到广泛研究,但这种能带结构的证据仍然难以捉摸,可能是由于能量分辨率不足。在这里,我们将朗道能级用作能量色散的标记,并在动量空间中电子或空穴的回旋轨道足够小以分辨出不同的迷你狄拉克锥的状态下分析朗道能级谱。我们确定了四个狄拉克锥的存在,并绘制了由位移场诱导的拓扑转变。通过阐明BLG能带的低能特性,这些发现为石墨烯电子学的工具包增添了有价值的内容。