Gate-tunable circular phonon dichroism effect in bilayer graphene

Abstract

Circular phonon dichroism effect has been proposed in two-dimensional materials; however, the lack of tunability hinders the exploration of the effect. Here, we investigate the role of dual-gating-induced inversion symmetry breaking in the circular phonon dichroism effect in bilayer graphene. We find that the introduction of inversion symmetry breaking modifies the response in the layer-symmetric and layer-antisymmetric channels, and results in the occurrence of phonon dichroism in the cross-channel. In the layer representation, the inversion symmetry breaking breaks the equality of intralayer circular phonon dichroism and enhances the interlayer response. Our results suggest that layer degree of freedom provides possibilities to tune phonon dynamics, which paves a way toward different physics and applications of two-dimensional acoustoelectronics and layertronics.