Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
4-12-2010
Abstract
The low-energy electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are studied using a longwavelength theory applicable to general commensurate fault angles. Lattice commensuration requires lowenergy electronic coherence across a fault and pre-empts massless Dirac behavior near the neutrality point. Sublattice exchange symmetry distinguishes two families of commensurate faults that have distinct low-energy spectra which can be interpreted as energy-renormalized forms of the spectra for the limiting Bernal and AA stacked structures. Sublattice-symmetric faults are generically fully gapped systems due to a pseudospin-orbit coupling appearing in their effective low-energy Hamiltonians.
Date Posted: 04 November 2010
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Suggested Citation:
Mele, E.J. (2010). "Commensuration and interlayer coherence in twisted bilayer graphene." Physical Review B. 81, 161405(R).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.161405