Boundary conditions for transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers in the continuum model
Abstract
We derive the boundary conditions for MoS2 and similar transition-metal dichalcogenide honeycomb (2H polytype) monolayers with the same type of k .p Hamiltonian within the continuum model around the K points. In an effective two-band description, the electron-hole symmetry breaking quadratic terms are also taken into account. We model the effect of the edges with a linear edge constraint method that has been applied previously to graphene. Focusing mainly on zigzag edges, we find that different reconstruction geometries with different edge atoms can generally be described with one scalar parameter varying between 0 and 2 π . We analyze the edge states and their dispersion relation in MoS2 in particular, and we find good agreement with the results of previous density functional theory calculations for various edge types.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.245443
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1509.00184
- Bibcode:
- 2015PhRvB..92x5443P
- Keywords:
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- 73.20.At;
- 73.21.Hb;
- 73.22.-f;
- 73.22.Dj;
- Surface states band structure electron density of states;
- Quantum wires;
- Electronic structure of nanoscale materials: clusters nanoparticles nanotubes and nanocrystals;
- Single particle states;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 6 figures