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We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai

Recent experiments indicate that AA-stacked bilayer graphenes (BLG) could exist. Since the energy bands of the AA-stacked BLG are different from both the monolayer and AB-stacked bilayer graphenes, different integer quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

Bilayer graphene in a magnetic field supports eight zero-energy Landau levels, which, as a tunable band gap develops, evolve into two nearly-degenerate quartets separated by the band gap. A close look is made into the properties of such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Shizuya

Bilayer graphene under a magnetic field has an octet of quasidegenerate levels due to spin, valley, and orbital degeneracies. This zero-energy Landau level is resolved into several incompressible states whose nature is still elusive. We use…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Angelika Knothe , Thierry Jolicoeur

Using the continuum model, we investigate the electronic properties of two types of bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum ring (QR) geometries: (i) an isolated BLG QR and (ii) a monolayer graphene (MLG) with a QR put on top of an infinite graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. Mirzakhani , D. R. da Costa , F. M. Peeters

We re-examine the nature of the ground states of bilayer graphene at odd integer filling factors within a simplified model of nearly degenerate $n=0$ and $n=1$ Landau levels. Previous Hartree-Fock studies have found that ferroelectric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Thierry Jolicoeur , Csaba Tőke , Inti Sodemann

In a quantizing magnetic field, the chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau level $N=0$ of bilayer graphene goes through a series of phase transitions at integer filling factors $\nu \in \left[ -3,3\right] $ when the strength of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Côté , Manuel Barrette , Élie Bouffard

We show that the twisted graphene bilayer can reveal unusual topological properties at low energies, as a consequence of a Dirac-point splitting. These features rely on a symmetry analysis of the electron hopping between the two layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , F. Guinea , G. Montambaux , A. H. Castro Neto

We present a symmetry-based analysis of competition between different gapped states that have been proposed in bilayer graphene (BLG), which are all degenerate on a mean field level. We classify the states in terms of a hidden SU(4)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

Single-layer and Bilayer of graphene are new classes of two-dimensional electron systems with unconventional band structures and valley degrees of freedom. The ground states and excitations in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Naokazu Shibata , Kentaro Nomura

The zero-energy Landau level of bilayer graphene is shown to be anomalously sharp (delta-function like) against bond disorder as long as the disorder is correlated over a few lattice constants.The robustness of the zero-mode anomaly can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

In a Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer, an electronic state in Landau level $% N=0$ is described by its guiding-center index $X$ (in the Landau gauge) and by its valley, spin, and orbital indices $\xi =\pm K,\sigma =\pm 1,$ and $% n=0,1.$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Lambert , R. Côté

Bilayer graphene provides a unique platform to explore the rich physics in quantum Hall effect. The unusual combination of spin, valley and orbital degeneracy leads to interesting symmetry broken states with electric and magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Manabendra Kuiri , Anindya Das

Broken-symmetry quantum Hall (QH) states with filling factors \nu=0, \pm 1, \pm 2, \pm 3 in the lowest Landau level in bilayer graphene are analyzed by solving the gap equation in the random phase approximation. It is shown that in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-20 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , Junji Jia , V. A. Miransky

Utilizing the Baym-Kadanoff formalism with the polarization function calculated in the random phase approximation, the dynamics of the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene is analyzed. Two phases with nonzero energy gap, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect in biased bilayer graphene based on a tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Integer quantum Hall plateaus with quantized conductivity $\sigma_{xy}=\nu e^2/h$ (where $\nu$ is any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 R. Ma , L. J. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N. Sheng

Motivated to understand the nature of the strongly insulating $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene, we develop the theory of the state in the framework of quantum Hall ferromagnetism. The generic phase diagram, obtained in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-07 Maxim Kharitonov

Within a minimal model, we present analytical expressions for the eigenstates and eigenvalues of carriers confined in quantum rings in monolayer and bilayer graphene. The calculations were performed in the context of the continuum model, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Zarenia , J. Milton Pereira , A. Chaves , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

In a magnetic field bilayer graphene supports an octet of zero-energy Landau levels with an extra twofold degeneracy in Landau orbitals n=0 and n=1. It is shown that this orbital degeneracy is lifted due to Coulombic quantum fluctuations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 K. Shizuya