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In this thesis, I propose a practical way to stabilize half passivated graphene (graphone). I show that the dipole moments induced by a hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) substrate on graphene stabilize the hydrogen atoms on one sublattice of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Shayan Hemmatiyan

In this article, based on first-principles calculations, we systematically study functionalization induced diamonization of graphene bilayer and graphene-BN hybrid bilayer. With single-side functionalization, the diamondized structures are…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-22 Long Yuan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang , Jian Guo Hou

Atomically thin two-dimensional layer of honeycomb crystalline carbon known as graphene is a promising system for electronics. It has a point-like Fermi surface, which is very sensitive to external potentials. In particular, Zeeman magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Khodas , I. A. Zaliznyak , D. E. Kharzeev

Bilayer graphene has a unique electronic structure influenced by a complex interplay between various degrees of freedom. We probe its chemical potential using double bilayer graphene heterostructures, separated by a hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-08 Kayoung Lee , Babak Fallahazad , Jiamin Xue , David C. Dillen , Kyounghwan Kim , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Emanuel Tutuc

We study the energy spectrum of a graphene bilayer in the presence of transverse electric and magnetic fields. We find that the resulting Landau levels exhibit a nonmonotonic dependence on the electric field, as well as numerous level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 L. M. Zhang , M. M. Fogler , D. P. Arovas

We present a theoretical study on the orbital magnetism in multilayer graphenes within the effective mass approximation. The Hamiltonian and thus susceptibility can be decomposed into contributions from sub-systems equivalent to monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Spintronics has become a broad and important research field that intersects with magnetism, nano-electronics, and materials science. Its overarching aim is to provide a fundamental understanding of spin-dependent phenomena in solid-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

Our proposed spin valve prototype showcases a sophisticated design featuring a two-dimensional graphene bilayer positioned between layers of ${CrBr}_3$ ferromagnetic insulators. In this model, proximity coupling plays a pivotal role,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 S. K. Behera , P. C. Ramamurthy

Magnetism is a prototypical phenomenon of quantum collective state, and has found ubiquitous applications in semiconductor technologies such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM). In conventional materials, it typically arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Jairo Velasco , David Tran , Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

Recent discoveries in graphene bilayers revealed that when one of the layers is rotated, superconductivity emerges. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon . We find that due to the layer rotations, the spinors are modified in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 D. Schmeltzer

By analytically constructing the matrix elements of an electron-phonon interaction for the $D$ band in the Raman spectra of armchair graphene nanoribbons, we show that pseudospin and momentum conservation result in (i) a $D$ band consisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 K. Sasaki , K. Kato , Y. Tokura , S. Suzuki , T. Sogawa

The paper discusses the chiral tunnelling of charge carriers through double barrier structure in twisted graphene bilayer. The theoretical analysis investigates the transmission probability for various system parameters under both symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Bahlaoui , Y. Zahidi

Lattice deformations in graphene couple to the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom as effective scalar and gauge fields. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the optical component of the displacement field, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Christophe De Beule , Robin Smeyers , Wilson Nieto Luna , E. J. Mele , Lucian Covaci

Superconductivity in single-layer graphene has attracted considerable interest. Here, using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, we study transitions of superconductivity and magnetism in a monolayer graphene with a special periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Jingyao Meng , Runyu Ma , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where the ground state of a system has lower symmetry than the underlying Hamiltonian, is ubiquitous in physics. It leads to multiply-degenerate ground states, each with a different "broken" symmetry labeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan S. Alden , Adam W. Tsen , Pinshane Y. Huang , Robert Hovden , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , David A. Muller , Paul L. McEuen

We show that the physics of deformation in $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, and $6,6,12$-graphyne is, despite their significantly more complex lattice structures, remarkably close to that of graphene, with inhomogeneously strained graphyne described at…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 R. Gupta , S. Maisel , F. Rost , D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , H. Soni , S. Sharma , A. Görling , S. Shallcross

The strain induced pseudo-magnetic field in supported graphene deposited on top of a nanostructured substrate is investigated by using atomistic simulations. Step, elongated trench, one dimensional barrier, spherical bubbles, Gaussian bump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

We study the spin-resolved transport through magnetic nanostructures in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We take into account both the orbital effect of the inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic field as well as the in-plane spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

The intrinsic transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are investigated using first principles calculations. It is found that although all ZGNRs have similar metallic band structure, they show distinctly different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Zuanyi Li , Haiyun Qian , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

Magnetic materials and nanostructures based on carbon offer unique opportunities for future technological applications such as spintronics. This article reviews graphene-derived systems in which magnetic correlations emerge as a result of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Oleg V. Yazyev