Topological Properties of Electrons in Honeycomb Lattice with Detuned Hopping Energy

Honeycomb lattice can support electronic states exhibiting Dirac energy dispersion, with graphene as the icon. We propose to derive nontrivial topology by grouping six neighboring sites of honeycomb lattice into hexagons and enhancing the inter-hexagon hopping energies over the intra-hexagon ones. W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wu, Long-Hua, Hu, Xiao
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830962/