Graphene on a graphite surface: effect of interlayer coupling.

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Abstract

We present low temperature high magnetic field scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy on a sheet of graphene suspended above a graphite substrate. The sheet consists of two regions that couple to the substrate with different strengths resulting in two distinct sequences of Landau Levels (LL). One region exhibits a sequence that is typical of single layer graphene (square root dependence on field and level index) with a reduced Fermi velocity that is renormalized by electron-phonon interactions. The sequence in the other region is anomalous and, according to recent theoretical work [1], it can be attributed to a bilayer with interlayer coupling that is $\sim $ 10 times weaker than that of normal bilayers. We find that the difference between the two regions is also reflected in the values of the Fermi velocity, suggesting that electron-phonon renormalization is suppressed by interlayer coupling. \newline [1] \textit{M. Pereira, F.M. Peeters and P. Vasilopoulos, Phys. Rev. B 76, 115419 (2007)}

Authors

  • Adina Luican

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA

  • Guohong Li

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA

  • Eva Y. Andrei

    Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA