Trigonal warping effect on velocity and transverse confinement length of topologically confined states in bilayer graphene

In bilayer graphene an interface between regions with opposite sign of the interlayer asymmetry gap leads to the spatial confinement of low-energy chiral modes [I. Martin, Y. M. Blanter, and A. F. Morpurgo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 036804 (2008)]. Here we study the influence of trigonal warping on the properties of the interface-guided stats and find that in the vicinity of the band edges the group velocity and transverse confinement length exhibit a nonmonotonic dependence on the crystallographic orientation of the crystal with respect to the interface.