학술논문

Recent progress on valley polarization and valley-polarized topological states in two-dimensional materials
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
中国物理B(英文版) / Chinese Physics B. 33(1):17-33
Subject
valley polarization
valley-polarized topological states
two-dimensional material
Language
Chinese
ISSN
1674-1056
Abstract
Valleytronics,using valley degree of freedom to encode,process,and store information,may find practical ap-plications in low-power-consumption devices.Recent theoretical and experimental studies have demonstrated that two-dimensional(2D)honeycomb lattice systems with inversion symmetry breaking,such as transition-metal dichalcogenides(TMDs),are ideal candidates for realizing valley polarization.In addition to the optical field,lifting the valley degeneracy of TMDs by introducing magnetism is an efficient way to manipulate the valley degree of freedom.In this paper,we first review the recent progress on valley polarization in various TMD-based systems,including magnetically doped TMDs,intrinsic TMDs with both inversion and time-reversal symmetry broken,and magnetic TMD heterostructures.When topo-logically nontrivial bands are empowered into valley-polarized systems,valley-polarized topological states,namely valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall effect can be realized.Therefore,we have also reviewed the theoretical proposals for realizing valley-polarized topological states in 2D honeycomb lattices.Our paper can help readers quickly grasp the latest research developments in this field.