摘要

Graphene has been a model solid state system where novel quantum phenomena emerge from the interplay between symmetry, band topology and reduced dimensionality. In particular, AB-stacked bilayer graphene has a unique bandstructure with an electrically tunable bandgap and a valley-dependent Berry phase. These features result in unusual electrical and optical properties, for which optical spectroscopy/microscopy are powerful characterization tools. In this talk, I will first show our experimental demonstration of the topological valley transport at AB/BA stacking domain walls in bilayer graphene. By combining near field infrared nanoscopy with low temperature electron transport, we showed that a 1D conducting channel exists at this structural domain wall, which can be attributed to the quantum valley Hall edge states in gapped bilayer graphene. Moreover, I will present our recent efforts on probing the excitons in bandgap-tuned bilayer graphene through advanced optical spectroscopy tools. I will show that due to the electron pseudospin and Berry curvature effects, these excitons obey distinct valley-dependent optical selection rules from that in conventional semiconductors and feature a large valley g-factor of 20 in magnetic field.

报告人简介

Long Ju got his BS from Tsinghua University in 2009, and Ph.D in physics from UC Berkeley in 2015. He is currently working as a postdoc in Cornell University. He has published 16 papers in Nature, Science, Nature nanotechnology, etc. He was awarded Kavli Fellowship from Cornell University and Pappalardo Fellowship from MIT.