Helical edge states and edge-state transport in strained armchair graphene nanoribbons

Abstract A helical type edge state, which is generally supported only on graphene with zigzag boundaries, is found to also appear in armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and a suitable strain. At a critical strain, there appears a quantum phase transition fr...

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Main Authors: Zheng-Fang Liu, Qing-Ping Wu, Ai-Xi Chen, Xian-Bo Xiao, Nian-Hua Liu, Guo-Xing Miao
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/76fdce77ad384ab5b7c6b51bb898ec33
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