Home > Publications database > Observation of the Spin-Orbit Gap in Bilayer Graphene by One-Dimensional Ballistic Transport |
Journal Article | FZJ-2020-02147 |
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
2020
APS
College Park, Md.
This record in other databases:
Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/24934 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.177701
Abstract: We report on measurements of quantized conductance in gate-defined quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene that allow the observation of subband splittings due to spin-orbit coupling. The size of this splitting can be tuned from 40 to 80 μeV by the displacement field. We assign this gate-tunable subband splitting to a gap induced by spin-orbit coupling of Kane-Mele type, enhanced by proximity effects due to the substrate. We show that this spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a complex pattern in low perpendicular magnetic fields, increasing the Zeeman splitting in one valley and suppressing it in the other one. In addition, we observe a spin polarized channel of 6e2/h at high in-plane magnetic field and signatures of interaction effects at the crossings of spin-split subbands of opposite spins at finite magnetic field.
![]() |
The record appears in these collections: |