“…The strength of screened Coulomb interactions in the long wavelength limit U 0 = U ( q ≈ 0) in the 2D heterostructure can be approximated as
, [
19 ] where
Å −2 and
Å −2 are areas of BZ and truncated BZ in the k · p calculations, ξ = 25 nm is the screening length, and Ω = 21.6 Å 2 is the unit cell area of WTe 2 . The effective dielectric constant ϵ, can be estimated as ϵ = (ϵ 1 + 1)/2 = 5.2, [
53 ] where ϵ 1 = 9.3 for graphene substrate [
54,55 ] and ϵ 2 = 1 for the vacuum above. The above estimate yields U 0 = 25.2 eV in excellent agreement with the U 0 = 25 eV as assumed in this model.…”