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Chin. Phys. B, 2022, Vol. 31(1): 017305    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac1b82
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Integer quantum Hall effect in Kekulé-patterned graphene

Yawar Mohammadi and Samira Bahrami
Department of Physics, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract  Y-shaped Kekulé bond textures in a honeycomb lattice on a graphene-copper superlattice have recently been experimentally revealed. In this paper, the effects of such a bond modulation on the transport coefficients of Kekulé-patterned graphene are investigated in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Analytical expressions are derived for the Hall and longitudinal conductivities using the Kubo formula. It is found that the Y-shaped Kekulé bond texture lifts the valley degeneracy of all Landau levels except that of the zero mode, leading to additional plateaus in the Hall conductivity accompanied by a split of the corresponding peaks in the longitudinal conductivity. Consequently, the Hall conductivity is quantized as ±ne2/h for n=2, 4, 6, 8, 10,..., excluding some plateaus that disappear due to the complete overlap of the Landau levels of different cones. These results also suggest that DC Hall conductivity measurements will allow us to determine the Kekulé bond texture amplitude.
Keywords:  AAA-stacked trilayer graphene      integer quantum Hall effect      Kubo formula      Hall conductivity  
Received:  16 March 2021      Revised:  15 July 2021      Accepted manuscript online:  07 August 2021
PACS:  73.43.-f (Quantum Hall effects)  
  72.80.Vp (Electronic transport in graphene)  
Fund: Project supported by the Farhangian University.
Corresponding Authors:  Yawar Mohammadi     E-mail:  y.mohammadi@cfu.ac.ir

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Yawar Mohammadi and Samira Bahrami Integer quantum Hall effect in Kekulé-patterned graphene 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 017305

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