Abstract
AbstractTwo dimensional quantum materials possessing Dirac cones in their spectrum are fascinating due to their emergent low-energy Dirac fermions. In 8Pmmn borophene the Dirac cone is furthermore tilted, which is a proxy for spacetime geometry, since the future light-cone depends on the underlying metric. Therefore it is important to understand the microscopic origin of the tilt. Here, based on ab-initio calculations, we decipher the atomistic mechanism of the formation of tilt. First, nearest-neighbor hopping on a buckled honeycomb lattice forms an upright Dirac cone. Then, the difference in the renormalized anisotropic second-neighbor hopping, formed by virtual hoppings on one-dimensional chains of atoms, tilts the Dirac cone. We construct an accurate tight-binding model on honeycomb graph for analytical investigation, and we find that substitution of certain boron atoms by carbon provides a way to change the tilt of the cone.
Funder
Sharif University of Technology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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5 articles.
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