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Tunable Luttinger liquid physics in biased bilayer graphene

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-18 v2

Abstract

Electronically gated bilayer graphene behaves as a tunable gap semiconductor under a uniform interlayer bias VgV_{g}. Imposing a spatially varying bias, which changes polarity from Vg-V_g to +Vg+V_g, leads to one dimensional (1D) chiral modes localized along the domain wall of the bias. Due to the broad transverse spread of their low-energy wavefunctions, we find that the dominant interaction between these 1D electrons is the forward scattering part of the Coulomb repulsion. Incorporating these interactions and the gate voltage dependence of the dispersion and wavefunctions, we find that these 1D modes behave as a strongly interacting Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with three distinct mode velocities and a bias dependent Luttinger parameter, and discuss its experimental signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1003.0907,
  title  = {Tunable Luttinger liquid physics in biased bilayer graphene},
  author = {Matthew Killi and Tzu-Chieh Wei and Ian Affleck and Arun Paramekanti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0907},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Modified to address referee comments - added references, added discussion of disorder and modified setup which allows tuning of carrier density and electric field (version to appear in PRL).

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