Intact Dirac Cones at Broken Sublattice Symmetry: Photoemission Study of Graphene on Ni and Co

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  • The appearance of massless Dirac fermions in graphene requires two equivalent carbon sublattices of trigonal shape. While the generation of an effective mass and a band gap at the Dirac point remains an unresolved problem for freestanding extended graphene, it is well established by breaking translational symmetry by confinement and by breaking sublattice symmetry by interaction with a substrate. One of the strongest sublattice-symmetry-breaking interactions with predicted and measured band gaps ranging from 400 meV to more than 3 eV has beenThe appearance of massless Dirac fermions in graphene requires two equivalent carbon sublattices of trigonal shape. While the generation of an effective mass and a band gap at the Dirac point remains an unresolved problem for freestanding extended graphene, it is well established by breaking translational symmetry by confinement and by breaking sublattice symmetry by interaction with a substrate. One of the strongest sublattice-symmetry-breaking interactions with predicted and measured band gaps ranging from 400 meV to more than 3 eV has been attributed to the interfaces of graphene with Ni and Co, which are also promising spin-filter interfaces. Here, we apply angle-resolved photoemission to epitaxial graphene on Ni (111) and Co(0001) to show the presence of intact Dirac cones 2.8 eV below the Fermi level. Our results challenge the common belief that the breaking of sublattice symmetry by a substrate and the opening of the band gap at the Dirac energy are in a straightforward relation. A simple effective model of a biased bilayer structure composed of graphene and a sublattice-symmetry-broken layer, corroborated by density-functional-theory calculations, demonstrates the general validity of our conclusions.show moreshow less

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Author: A. Varykhalov, D. Marchenko, J. Sánchez-Barriga, M. R. Scholz, B. Verberck, B. Trauzettel, T. O. Wehling, C. Carbone, O. Rader
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-135732
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie / Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Physical Review X
Year of Completion:2012
Volume:2
Issue:041017
Source:Physical Review X 2, 041017 (2012). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041017
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 539 Moderne Physik
Tag:NI(111); electronic states; monolayer graphite; surface; transistors; ultrasoft pseudopotentials
Release Date:2018/04/03
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung