Physical Origin of Current Partition at a Topological Trifurcation
arXiv:2104.08430 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L161413
Abstract
In gated bilayer graphene, topological zero-line modes (ZLMs) appear along lines separating regions with opposite valley Hall topologies. Although it is experimentally difficult to design the electric gates to realize ZLMs due to the extremely challenging techniques, twisted bilayer graphene provides a natural platform to produce ZLMs in the presence of uniform electric field. In this Letter, we develop a set of wavepacket dynamics, which can be utilized to characterize various gapless edge modes and can quantitatively reproduce the electronic transport properties at topological intersections. To our surprise, in the minimally twisted bilayer graphene where a topological trifurcation intersection naturally arises, we show that the counterintuitive current partition (i.e., the direct transport propagation) originates from the microscopic mechanism "bypass jump". Our method can be applied to understand the microscopic pictures of the electronic transport features of all kinds of topological states.
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