Helical edge states and edge-state transport in strained armchair graphene nanoribbons

Abstract A helical type edge state, which is generally supported only on graphene with zigzag boundaries, is found to also appear in armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and a suitable strain. At a critical strain, there appears a quantum phase transition fr...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Zheng-Fang Liu, Qing-Ping Wu, Ai-Xi Chen, Xian-Bo Xiao, Nian-Hua Liu, Guo-Xing Miao
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Serie:Scientific Reports
Länkar:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08954-3