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Zibo Wang1,2, Shuguang Cheng3, Xiao Liu4
1College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Due to the unique band structure, graphene exhibits a number of exotic electronic properties that have not been observed in other materials. Among them, it has been demonstrated that there exist the one-dimensional valley-polarized topological kink states localized in the vicinity of the domain wall of graphene systems, where a bulk energy gap opens due to the inversion symmetry breaking. Notably, the valley-momentum locking nature makes the topological kink states attractive to the property manipulation in valleytronics. This paper systematically reviews both the theoretical research and experimental progress on topological kink states in monolayer graphene, bilayer graphene and graphene-like classical wave systems. Besides, various applications of topological kink states, including the valley filter, current partition, current manipulation, Majorana zero modes and etc, are also introduced.
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