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Lei Xu1, Yuan Zhou, Chang-De Gong
1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We study the topological phase transition in biased bilayer graphene in the presence of intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. The system exhibits a complicated topological phase transition depending on the given parameters. The topological phase transition between these phases is always accompanied by the bulk gap closing and reopening, and can be realized by tuning the bias voltage. The stability of these topological phases are also investigated. We find that the weak (strong) topological insulator phase remains stable under a finite exchange field provided that the effect of intrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit coupling is dominant, and this also holds for the quantum valley Hall phase if the spatial inversion symmetry breaking overcomes the time-reversal symmetry breaking.
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