Making Massless Dirac Fermions from Patterned Two-Dimensional Electron Gases

Cheol-Hwan Park; Steven G. Louie

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Making Massless Dirac Fermions from Patterned Two-Dimensional Electron Gases

Cheol-Hwan Park, Steven G. Louie

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Submitted 22 Aug 2008

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The authors' main claim Analysis of the electronic structure of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under an appropriate external periodic potential of hexagonal symmetry reveals that massless Dirac fermions are generated near the corners of the supercell Brillouin zone.

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Analysis of the electronic structure of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under an appropriate external periodic potential of hexagonal symmetry reveals that massless Dirac fermions are generated near the corners of the supercell Brillouin zone. The required potential parameters are found to be achievable under or close to laboratory conditions. Moreover, the group velocity is tunable by changing either the effective mass of the 2DEG or the lattice parameter of the external potential, and it is insensitive to the potential amplitude. The finding should provide a new class of systems other than graphene for investigating and exploiting massless Dirac fermions using 2DEGs in semiconductors.

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Analysis of the electronic structure of an ordinary two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under an appropriate external periodic potential of hexagonal symmetry reveals that massless Dirac fermions are generated near the corners of the supercell Brillouin zone. The required potential parameters are found to be achievable under or close to laboratory conditions. Moreover, the group velocity is tunable by changing either the effective mass of the 2DEG or the lattice parameter of the external potential, and it is insensitive to the potential amplitude. The finding should provide a new class of systems other than graphene for investigating and exploiting massless Dirac fermions using 2DEGs in semiconductors.

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Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength periodic potential with honeycomb symmetry can lead to the creation of isolated massless Dirac points with tunable Fermi velocity.

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As a possible realization of another two-dimensional (2D) massless Dirac particle system, theoretical studies on the physical properties of particles in optical honeycomb lattices [ref] have been performed [ref] .

The Nonlinear Dirac Equation in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Foundation and Symmetries · Introduction · 0.85

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