Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2008-06-26
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196802 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196804
A study of the effect of unscreened Coulomb interactions on the quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase of finite-width neutral zigzag graphene ribbons is presented. By solving a tight-binding Hamiltonian that includes the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction (I-SO), exact expressions for band-structures and edge-states wavefunctions are obtained. These analytic results, supported by tight-binding calculations, show that chiral spin-filtered edge states are composed of localized and damped oscillatory wavefunctions, reminiscent of the ones obtained in armchair ribbons. The addition of long-range Coulomb interactions opens a gap in the charge sector with a gapless spin sector. In contrast to armchair terminations, the charge-gap vanishes exponentially with the ribbon width and its amplitude and decay-length are strongly dependent on the I-SO coupling. Comparison with reported ab-initio calculations are presented.
Büsser Carlos
Sandler Nancy
Zarea Mahdi
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