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Electron bands in the untwisted bilayer graphene flatten out in a transverse electric field, offering a promising platform for correlated electron physics. We predict that the spin/valley isospin magnetism, resembling that seen in moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Zhiyu Dong , Margarita Davydova , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

We study the ground state properties of an ABA-stacked trilayer graphene. The low energy band structure can be described by a combination of both a linear and a quadratic particle-hole symmetric dispersions, reminiscent of monolayer- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-08 Ralph van Gelderen , Lih-King Lim , C. Morais Smith

We compute the phase diagram of a biased graphene bilayer. The existence of a ferromagnetic phase is discussed with respect both to carrier density and temperature. We find that the ferromagnetic transition is first order, lowering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , N. A. P. Silva

The non-interacting energy spectrum of graphene and its bilayer counterpart consists of multiple degeneracies owing to the inherent spin, valley and layer symmetries. Interactions among charge carriers are expected to spontaneously break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We investigate here how the current flows over a bilayer graphene in the presence of an external electric field perpendicularly applied (biased bilayer). Charge density polarization between layers in these systems is known to create a layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira

We show that the pseudospin being an additional degree of freedom for carriers in graphene can be efficiently controlled by means of the electron-electron interactions which, in turn, can be manipulated by changing the substrate. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

Graphene - a single atomic layer of graphite - is a recently-found two-dimensional form of carbon, which exhibits high crystal quality and ballistic electron transport at room temperature. Soft magnetic NiFe electrodes have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 E. W. Hill , A. K. Geim , K. Novoselov , F. Schedin , P. Blake

Pseudo-magnetic field becomes an experimental reality after the observation of zero-field Landau level-like quantization in strained graphene, but it is not expected that the time-reversal symmetric pseudo-magnetic fields will have any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Lin He

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

We show that the electric charge of the Skyrmion in the vector order parameters that characterize the quantum anomalous spin Hall state and the layer-antiferromagnet in a graphene bilayer is four and zero, respectively. The result is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-28 Chi-Ken Lu , Igor F. Herbut

Spontaneous order of layer pseudospins in two-dimensional bilayers is common in quantum Hall systems, where it is responsible for hysteretic responses to gate fields in states with Ising order, and giant drag voltages in states with XY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 Yongxin Zeng , Nemin Wei , Allan H. MacDonald

We show that bilayer graphene exhibits magneto-electric effects that are formally similar to those commonly seen in band insulators with broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries. Three unusual features characterize the magneto-electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler

In graphene, the pseudospin and the valley flavor arise as new types of quantum degrees of freedom due to the honeycomb lattice comprising two sublattices (A and B) and two inequivalent Dirac points (K and K') in the Brillouin zone,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 Changwon Park , Heejun Yang , Andrew J. Mayne , Gerald Dujardin , Sunae Seo , Young Kuk , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim

We examine the coexisting spin and charge density waves as a possible ground state of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. When interactions are not included, the spectrum of the material has 4 (8 if spin is taken into account) almost…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-24 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov

This is a theoretical study of electron transport in gated bilayer graphene - a novel semiconducting material with a tunable band gap. It is shown that the which-layer pseudospin coherence enhances the subgap conductivity and facilitates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Maxim Trushin

The electronic structure, bonding and magnetism in graphene containing vacancies are studied using density-functional methods. The single-vacancy graphene ground state is spin polarized and structurally flat. The unpolarized state is non…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-11 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana , Marek Z. Zgierski

Graphene-based materials show promise for spintronic applications due to their potentially large spin coherence length. On the other hand, because of their small intrinsic spin-orbit interaction, an external magnetic source is desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher

Graphene has attracted a great interest in material science due to its novel electronic structrues. Recently, magnetism discovered in graphene based systems opens the possibility of their spintronics application. This paper provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Erjun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Emergent phenomena arising from the collective behavior of electrons is generally expected when Coulomb interactions dominate over the kinetic energy, as in delocalized quasiparticles in highly degenerate flat bands. Bernal-stacked bilayer…

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg