Electronic topological transition in sliding bilayer graphene

Details Electronic topological transition in sliding bilayer graphene Electronic topological transition in sliding bilayer graphene

2010-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/1012.0643v2

Physical Review B 84, 155410 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

title changed, an extended version for regular article format, 10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.155410

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon originates from a generation of effective non-Abelian vector potential in Dirac Hamiltonian by the sliding motions. The characteristics of the transition such as pair annihilations of massless Dirac fermions are dictated by the sliding direction owing to a unique interplay between the effective non-Abelian gauge fields and Berry's phases associated with massless electrons. The transition manifests itself in various measurable quantities such as anomalous density of states, minimal conductivity, and distinct Landau level spectrum.

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