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The $1D$ phase diagram of a model for correlated hopping of electrons in a lattice of Berry phase molecules is presented. Electrons hop in presence of an extra orbital degree of freedom at each site. This is mimicked as a spin-1 variable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-30 Giuseppe Santoro , Nicola Manini , Alberto Parola , Erio Tosatti

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

We examine the quantum energy levels of rectangular billiards with a pointlike scatterer in one and two dimensions. By varying the location and the strength of the scatterer, we systematically find diabolical degeneracies among various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Taksu Cheon , Takaomi Shigehara

Non-trivial Berry phase of graphene leads to unusual quantum correction to the conductivity. Berry phase of pi in single layer graphene (SLG) and 2pi in bi-layer graphene (BLG) is expected to reveal weak anti-localization (WAL) and weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Chandan Kumar , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Priyo Adhikary , Sumilan Banerjee , Tanmoy Das , Anindya Das

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

The electronic structure of the zig-zag bilayer strip is analyzed. The electronic spectra of the bilayer strip is computed. The dependence of the edge state band flatness on the bilayer width is found. The density of states at the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Pudlak , R. Pincak

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

We show that in AB stacked bilayer graphene low energy excitations around the semimetallic points are described by massless, four dimensional Dirac fermions. There is an effective reconstruction of the 4 dimensional spacetime, including in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Cariglia , R. Giambò , A. Perali

The quasi-static transverse conductivity of clean Fermi liquids at long wavelengths displays a remarkably universal behaviour: it is determined solely by the radius of curvature of the Fermi surface and does not depend on details such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Mark Morgenthaler , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle exhibits remarkably rich electron correlation physics, displaying insulating, magnetic, and superconducting phases. Here, using measurements of the local electronic compressibility, we reveal…

By taking into account the possibility of all the intralayer as well as the interlayer current orderings, we derive an eight-band model for interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. With the numerical solution to the model, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-31 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

An unconventional insulating phase and a superconducting phase were recently discovered in the twisted bilayer graphene [Y. Cao et al, Nature {\bf 556}, 80; {\bf 556}, 43 (2018)], but the relevant low-energy electronic states have not been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Long Zhang

The nature of electron correlations in bilayer graphene has been investigated. An analytic expression for the radial distribution function is derived for an ideal electron gas and the corresponding static structure factor is evaluated. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider the scattering of an atom by a sequence of two near-resonant standing light waves each formed by two running waves with slightly different wave vectors. Due to opposite detunings of the two standing waves and within the rotating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Polina V. Mironova , Maxim A. Efremov , Wolfgang P. Schleich

Berry phase was originally defined for systems whose states are separated by finite energy gaps. One might naively expect that a system without a gap cannot have a Berry phase. Despite this we ask whether a Berry phase can be observed in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Whitney , Yuval Gefen

Berry phases occur when a system adiabatically evolves along a closed curve in parameter space. This tutorial-like article focuses on Berry phases accumulated in real space. In particular, we consider the situation where an electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-06 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Matthias Sitte

Physics arising from two-dimensional~(2D) Dirac cones has been a topic of great theoretical and experimental interest to studies of gapless topological phases and to simulations of relativistic systems. Such $2$D Dirac cones are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Wenlei Zhao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

The minimal nearest-neighbor tight-binding model with the Peierls substitution is employed to describe the electronic structure of Bernal-stacked graphite subject to tilted magnetic fields. We show that while the presence of the in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nataliya A. Goncharuk , Ludvik Smrcka

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González

We study theoretically the electrical transport of two-dimensional (2D) massive Dirac fermions, which are described by the 2 by 2 massive Dirac Hamiltonian, and with a gap at the charge neutrality point. Through analytical diagrammatical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-31 Ting Zhang , Jie Pan , Ping Sheng