Nodal Surfaces in Photoemission from Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Anshuman Pal, E. J. Mele

Published 2013-04-05Version 1

Selection rules and interference effects in angle resolved photoemission spectra from twisted graphene bilayers are studied within a long wavelength theory for the electronic structure. Using a generic model for the interlayer coupling, we identify features in the calculated ARPES momentum distributions that are controlled by the singularities and topological character of its long wavelength spectrum. We distinguish spectral features that are controlled by single-layer singularities in the spectrum, their modification by gauge potentials in each layer generated by the interlayer coupling, and new energy-dependent interference effects that directly probe the interlayer coherence. The results demonstrate how the energy- and polarization- dependence of ARPES spectra can be used to characterize the interlayer coupling in twisted bilayer graphenes.