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  • Title: Unscreened Coulomb interactions and the quantum spin Hall phase in neutral zigzag graphene ribbons.
    Author: Zarea M, Büsser C, Sandler N.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2008 Nov 07; 101(19):196804. PubMed ID: 19113295.
    Abstract:
    A study of the effect of unscreened Coulomb interactions on the quantum spin Hall phase of finite-width neutral zigzag graphene ribbons is presented. By solving a tight-binding Hamiltonian that includes the intrinsic spin-orbit (ISO) interaction, exact expressions for band structures and edge-state wave functions are obtained. These analytic results, supported by tight-binding calculations, show that chiral spin-filtered edge states are composed of localized and damped oscillatory wave functions, reminiscent of the ones obtained in armchair ribbons. The addition of long-range Coulomb interactions opens a gap in the charge sector with a gapless spin sector. In contrast to armchair terminations, the charge gap vanishes exponentially with the ribbon width and its amplitude and decay length are strongly dependent on the ISO coupling. Comparison with reported ab initio calculations are presented.
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