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We show that a coherent picture of the dc conductivity of monolayer and bilayer graphene at finite electronic densities emerges upon considering that strong short-range potentials are the main source of scattering in these two systems. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 A. Ferreira , J. Viana Gomes , Johan Nilsson , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the zero-temperature many-body properties of twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle equal to the so-called `first magic angle'. The system low-energy single-electron spectrum consists of four (eight, if spin label is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

We report measurements of the cyclotron mass in graphene for carrier concentrations n varying over three orders of magnitude. In contrast to the single-particle picture, the real spectrum of graphene is profoundly nonlinear so that the…

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic transport properties of bilayer and trilayer graphene within a framework of single-electron tight-binding model. Various types of disorder are considered, such as resonant (hydrogen)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We report on magneto-transport measurements on low-density, large-area monolayer epitaxial graphene devices grown on SiC. We show that the zero-energy Landau level (LL) in monolayer graphene, which is predicted to be magnetic field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-29 Lung-I Huang , Yanfei Yang , Randolph E. Elmquist , Shun-Tsung Lo , Fan-Hung Liu , Chi-Te Liang

We report the first observation of a large spin lifetime anisotropy in bilayer graphene (BLG) fully encapsulated between hexagonal boron nitride. We characterize the out-of-plane ($\tau_\perp$) and in-plane ($\tau_\parallel$) spin lifetimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Johannes Christian Leutenantsmeyer , Josep Ingla-Aynés , Jaroslav Fabian , Bart J. van Wees

We theoretically investigate a folded bilayer graphene structure as an experimentally realizable platform to produce the one-dimensional topological zero-line modes. We demonstrate that the folded bilayer graphene under an external gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Tao Hou , Guanghui Chen , Wang-Kong Tse , Changgan Zeng , Zhenhua Qiao

The optical conductivity of graphene nanoribbons is analytical and exactly derived. It is shown that the absence of translation invariance along the transverse direction allows considerable intra-band absorption in a narrow frequency window…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 F. Hipolito , A. J. Chaves , R. M. Ribeiro , M. I. Vasilevskiy , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

The conductivity of the system magnetic dielectric (EuO) - graphene channel - ferroelectric substrate was considered. The magnetic dielectric locally transforms the band spectrum of graphene by inducing an energy gap in it and making it…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-22 Anatolii I. Kurchak , Anna N. Morozovska , Maksym V. Strikha

We numerically calculate the optical conductivity of twisted graphene bilayers within the continuum model. To obtain the imaginary part, we employ the regularized Kramers-Kronig relation allowing us to discuss arbitrary twist angles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Tobias Stauber , Pablo San-Jose , Luis Brey

The effect of strain on the Landau levels (LLs) spectra in graphene is studied, using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian which includes the distortion in the Dirac cones, anisotropy and spatial-dependence of the Fermi velocity induced by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-27 Y. Betancur-Ocampo , M. E. Cifuentes-Quintal , G. Cordourier-Maruri , R. de Coss

A new type of angular oscillations of the high-frequency conductivity for conductors with a band-contact line has been predicted. The effect is caused by groups of charge carriers near the self-intersection points of the Fermi surface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Juan C. Medina Pantoja , Juan Sotelo-Campos , Igor V. Kozlov

Tight-binding calculations predict that the AA-stacked graphene bilayer has one electron and one hole conducting bands, and that the Fermi surfaces of these bands coincide. We demonstrate that as a result of this degeneracy, the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , Franco Nori

We investigate electronic transport in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) under variable temperatures ($T$), carrier densities ($n$), and transverse magnetic fields, focusing on samples with small-twist-angles ($\theta$). These samples show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Ting-Fung Chung , Yang Xu , Yong P. Chen

We carry out large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a candidate field theory for the onset of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. The correlated insulating state at charge neutrality spontaneously breaks U(1)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-04 Disha Hou , Yuhai Liu , Toshihiro Sato , Fakher F. Assaad , Wenan Guo , Zhenjiu Wang

Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are extraordinarily sensitive to carrier density and to controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Eva Y. Andrei , Allan H. MacDonald

In this paper, we develop an analytical approach to predict the field-induced alignment of cantilevered graphene nanoribbons. This approach is validated through molecular simulations using a constitutive atomic electrostatic model. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-04 Zhao Wang