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Ever since the novel quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene was discovered, and explained by a Berry phase of 2pi [K. S. Novoselov et al., "Unconventional quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase of 2pi in bilayer graphene", Nature Phys. 2,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Nicola Marzari

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

We derive a semiclassical expression for the Green's function in graphene, in which the presence of a semiclassical phase is made apparent. The relationship between this semiclassical phase and the adiabatic Berry phase, usually referred to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Carmier , Ullmo Denis

Experimentally feasible methods to determine the Berry phase, a fundamental quantity characterizing a quantum material, are often needed in applications. We develop an approach to detecting the Berry phase by using a class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Cheng-Zhen Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

We study the energy spectrum and electronic properties of graphene in a periodic magnetic field of zero average with a symmetry of triangular lattice. The periodic field leads to formation of a set of minibands separated by gaps, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taillefumier , V. K. Dugaev , B. Canals , C. Lacroix , P. Bruno

We propose a method to detect the geometric phase produced by the Dirac-type band structure of a triangular-lattice photonic crystal. The spectrum is known to have a conical singularity (= Dirac point) with a pair of nearly degenerate modes…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-04 R. A. Sepkhanov , Johan Nilsson , C. W. J. Beenakker

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac states and Dirac points with linear dispersion are the hallmark of graphene, topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors. Lowering a symmetry by the ferroelectric polarization opens the gap in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Konstantin S. Denisov , Yuntian Liu , Igor Žutić

This talk presents a study of massless relativistic Dirac fields in three Euclidean dimensions, at finite temperature and density, in the presence of a uniform electromagnetic background. Apart from explaining the behavior of Hall's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-01 E. M. Santangelo

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

The ABC-stacked N-layer-graphene family of two-dimensional electron systems is described at low energies by two remarkably flat bands with Bloch states that have strongly momentum-dependent phase differences between carbon pi-orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-12 Fan Zhang , Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan H. MacDonald

The manipulation and movement of Dirac points in the Brillouin zone by the electron-electron interaction is considered within leading order perturbation theory. At the merging point, an infinitesimal interaction is shown to cause opening of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-16 Balázs Dóra , Igor F. Herbut , Roderich Moessner

The phase of a quantum state may not return to its original value after the system's parameters cycle around a closed path; instead, the wavefunction may acquire a measurable phase difference called the Berry phase. Berry phases typically…

The response of electrons under linearly polarized light in Dirac materials as borophene or graphene is analyzed in a continuous wave regime for an arbitrary intense field. Using a rotation and a time-dependent phase transformation, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , A. Kunold , Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We have found that the Berry phase of bilayer graphene becomes from 2$\pi$ estimated by Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations when the A-B stacked pristine bilayer graphene experiences the Li-intercalation and sequential Li-desorption process in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Ryota Akiyama , Yuma Takano , Yukihiro Endo , Satoru Ichinokura , Ryosuke Nakanishi , Kentaro Nomura , Shuji Hasegawa

We consider the impact of Berry phase on the Wigner crystal (WC) state of a two-dimensional electron system. We consider first a model of Bernal bilayer graphene with a perpendicular displacement field, and we show that Berry curvature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Sandeep Joy , Leonid Levitov , Brian Skinner

The electronic band structure of ABC-stacked multilayer graphene is studied within an effective mass approximation. The electron and hole bands touching at zero energy support chiral quasiparticles characterized by Berry's phase N pi for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

We present the results of the symmetry classification of the electron energy bands in graphene and silicene using group theory algebra and the tight--binding approximation. The analysis is performed both in the absence and in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 E. Kogan

The band structure of cubic inverse perovskites, Ca_3PbO and its family, are investigated with the first-principles method. A close observation of the band structure reveals that six equivalent Dirac electrons with a very small mass exist…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-19 Toshikaze Kariyado , Masao Ogata