Topological kink states in graphene

Z Wang, S Cheng, X Liu, H Jiang - Nanotechnology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to the unique band structure, graphene exhibits a number of exotic electronic properties
that have not been observed in other materials. Among them, it has been demonstrated that …

3D manipulation of 2D materials using microdome polymer

Y Wakafuji, R Moriya, S Masubuchi, K Watanabe… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate 3D mechanical manipulations, such as sliding, rotating, folding, flipping,
and exfoliating, of 2D materials using a microdome polymer (MDP) via in situ real-time …

Spontaneous folding growth of graphene on h-BN

X Fan, SW Kim, J Tang, X Huang, Z Lin, L Zhu, L Li… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Graphene has been the subject of much research, with structural engineering frequently
used to harness its various properties. In particular, the concepts of graphene origami and …

Layer-dependent zero-line modes in antiferromagnetic topological insulators

W Liang, T Hou, J Zeng, Z Liu, Y Han, Z Qiao - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Recently, the magnetic domain walls have been experimentally observed in
antiferromagnetic topological insulators MnBi 2 Te 4. Here we study the intrinsic topological …

Generation and edge-state transitions of pseudohelical edge state based on side potentials in graphene

XL Lü, JF Liu - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Pseudohelical edge state (PHES) was proposed based on a staggered spin–orbit coupling
(SOC) uniformly applied on graphene. In this work, we investigate the formation of the PHES …

Valley current splitter in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

T Hou, Y Ren, Y Quan, J Jung, W Ren, Z Qiao - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the electronic transport properties at the intersection of three topological zero lines
as the elementary current partition node that arises in minimally twisted bilayer graphene …

Metallic network of topological domain walls

T Hou, Y Ren, Y Quan, J Jung, W Ren, Z Qiao - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the electronic and transport properties of a network of domain walls between
insulating domains with opposite valley Chern numbers. We find that the network is …

Topological confinement states in ABA trilayer graphene with antiparallel electric field

J An, S You, Z Li, Z Qiao - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In AB-stacked bilayer graphene, the introduction of an out-of-plane electric field can break
the inversion symmetry to open up a nontrivial bulk gap hosting the quantum valley Hall …

Transport induced dimer state from topological corner states

KT Wang, Y Ren, F Xu, Y Wei, J Wang - Science China Physics, Mechanics …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, a new type of second-order topological insulator has been theoretically proposed
by introducing an in-plane Zeeman field into the Kane-Mele model in the two-dimensional …

Electronic properties of zero-line modes in bilayer graphene: An ab initio study

Z Yan, T Hou, Y Han, X Xu, Z Qiao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The inversion symmetry breaking in a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer, eg, by applying a
perpendicular electric field, can open a band gap harboring the quantum valley Hall effect …