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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

We study the electronic transport through np and npn junctions for AAA-stacked trilayer graphene. Two kinds of gates are considered where the first is a single gate and the second is a double gate. After obtaining the solutions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui , Hocine Bahlouli

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder at half filling. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the symmetry of disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We study the electronic structure of multilayer graphenes with a mixture of Bernal and rhombohedral stacking and propose a general scheme to understand the electronic band structure of an arbitrary configuration. The system can be viewed as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

Motivated by the recent experiments indicating a spin-unpolarized \nu=0 quantum Hall state in graphene, we theoretically investigate the ground state based on the many-body problem projected onto the n=0 Landau level. For an effective model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yuji Hamamoto , Tohru Kawarabayashi , Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene with N>=2 is susceptible to a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers. In mean-field theory the neutral bilayer ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

Chiral symmetry, fundamental in the physics of graphene, guarantees the existence of topologically stable doubled Dirac cones and anomalous behaviors of the zero-energy Landau level in magnetic fields. The crucial role is inherited in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Y. Hatsugai , T. Morimoto , T. Kawarabayashi , Y. Hamamoto , H. Aoki

The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer graphene in the Bernal stacking supports a variety of uniform broken-symmetry ground states in Landau level N=0 at integer filling factors $\nu \in [-3,4].$ When an electric potential difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 R. Cote , J. P. Fouquet , Wenchen Luo

We present a theoretical study of momentum-resolved tunneling between parallel two-dimensional conductors whose charge carriers have a (pseudo-)spin-1/2 degree of freedom that is strongly coupled to their linear orbital momentum. Specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 L. Pratley , U. Zuelicke

Double layer graphene is a gapless semiconductor which develops a finite gap when the layers are placed at different electrostatic potentials. We study, within the tight-biding approximation, the electronic properties of the gaped graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Electronic properties of surface areas decoupled from graphite are studied using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. We show that it is possible to identify decoupled graphene monolayer, Bernal bilayer, and Bernal trilayer on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Long-Jing Yin , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The electronic structure of few-layer graphene (FLG) samples with crystalline order was investigated experimentally by infrared absorption spectroscopy for photon energies ranging from 0.2 - 1 eV. Distinct optical conductivity spectra were…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

Landau level bending near the edge of graphene, described using 2d Dirac equation, provides a microscopic framework for understanding the quantum Hall Effect (QHE) in this material. We review properties of the QHE edge states in graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering. Here we demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Ceren B. Dag

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

With minima in the diagonal conductance G_{xx} and in the absolute value of the derivative |dG_{xy}/dB| at the Hall conductance value G_{xy}=e^{2}/h, spin-splitting is observed in the quantum Hall effect of heavily Si-doped GaAs layers with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Murzin , M. Weiss , D. A. Knyazev , A. G. M. Jansen , K. Eberl

We report low temperature high magnetic field scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene flakes on graphite that exhibit the structural and electronic properties of graphene decoupled from the substrate. Pronounced peaks in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-11 Guohong Li , Adina Luican , Eva Y. Andrei

Multilayer graphene with rhombohedral and Bernal stacking are supposed to be metallic, as predicted by density functional theory calculations using semi-local functionals. However recent angular resolved photoemission and transport data…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Marco Campetella , Nguyen Minh Nguyen , Jacopo Baima , Lorenzo Maschio , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

Here we show that twisted graphene trilayer made by misoriented stacking a graphene monolayer on top of a Bernal graphene bilayer can exhibit rich and tailored electronic properties. For the case that the graphene monolayer and bilayer are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 Jia-Bin Qiao , Lin He