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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 6(111), 2013

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.066803

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Chiral Tunneling in a Twisted Graphene Bilayer

Journal article published in 2013 by Wen-Yu He, Zhao-Dong Chu ORCID, Lin He
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Abstract

The perfect transmission in a graphene monolayer and the perfect reflection in a Bernal graphene bilayer for electrons incident in the normal direction of a potential barrier are viewed as two incarnations of the Klein paradox. Here we show a new and unique incarnation of the Klein paradox. Owing to the different chiralities of the quasiparticles involved, the chiral fermions in a twisted graphene bilayer show an adjustable probability of chiral tunneling for normal incidence: they can be changed from perfect tunneling to partial or perfect reflection, or vice versa, by controlling either the height of the barrier or the incident energy. As well as addressing basic physics about how the chiral fermions with different chiralities tunnel through a barrier, our results provide a facile route to tune the electronic properties of the twisted graphene bilayer.