Direct Probing Stacking Order and Electronic Spectrum of Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
arXiv:1409.5933 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.035410
Abstract
Recently, the rhombohedral trilayer graphene (r-TLG) has attracted much attention because of its low-energy flat bands, which are predicted to result in many strongly correlated phenomena. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to probe the stacking order and electronic spectrum of the r-TLG directly with a scanning tunneling microscopy around a monoatomic step edge of the top graphene layer. The tunneling spectra of the r-TLG exhibit four adjacent peaks, which are generated by the low-energy flat bands, flanking the charge neutrality point. Based on these spectra, the true energy gap and the energy gap at the K-point of the r-TLG are determined as about 9 meV and 23 meV, respectively. The observed features are well reproduced by a low-energy effective Hamiltonian.
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