Rich Magneto-electronic spectra of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene

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Abstract

We develop the generalized tight-binding model to study the magneto-electronic properties of AAB-stacked trilayer graphene. Three groups of Landau levels (LLs) are characterized by the dominating sub-envelope function on distinct sub-lattices. Each LL group could be further divided into two sub-groups in which the wave-functions are, respectively, localized at 2/6 and 4/6 of the total length of the enlarged unit cell. The unoccupied conduction and the occupied valence LLs in each sub-group behave similarly. For the first group, there exists certain important differences between two sub-groups, including the LL energy spacings, quantum numbers, spatial distributions, and the field-dependent spectra. The LL crossings and anti-crossings occur frequently in each sub-group during the variation of field strength, which thus leads to the very complicated energy pectra and the seriously distorted wave-functions.

*Thanks the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (ROC) for funding support

Authors

  • Thi Nga Do

    • PhD. candidate, Dept. of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Ming-Fa Lin

    • Professor of the Dept. of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
    • Professor of Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University
    • Natl Cheng Kung Univ
    • Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan