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Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

We demonstrate that the electronic spectrum of graphene in a one-dimensional periodic potential will develop a Landau level spectrum when the potential magnitude varies slowly in space. The effect is related to extra Dirac points generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Jianmin Sun , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

A graphene superlattice is formed by a one-dimensional periodic potential and is characterized by the emergence of new Dirac points in the electronic structure. The group velocity of graphene's massless Dirac fermions at the new points is…

The electronic structure of a graphene superlattice composed by two periodic regions with different Fermi velocity, energy gap and electrostatic potential is investigated by using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It must be expected…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Jonas R. F. Lima

Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. Previously, it proved difficult to…

In the case of graphene, hydrogenation removes the conductivity due to the bands forming the Dirac cone by opening up a band gap. This type of chemical functionalization is of utmost importance for electronic applications. As predicted by…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-07 W. Wang , W. Olovsson , R. I. G. Uhrberg

In this article, we show that, in the dissociation regime and under a non-degeneracy assumption, the reduced Hartree-Fock theory of graphene presents Dirac points at the vertices of the first Brillouin zone and that the Fermi level is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Jean Cazalis

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present a method for decoupling epitaxial graphene grown on SiC(0001) by intercalation of a layer of fluorine at the interface. The fluorine atoms do not enter into a covalent bond with graphene, but rather saturate the substrate Si…

We present a detailed analysis of the electronic properties of graphene/Eu/Ni(111). By using angle and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, we show that the Eu-intercalation of graphene/Ni(111) restores the…

One-dimensional graphene superlattice subjected to strong Kronig-Penney (KP) potential is promising for achieving electron lensing effect, while previous studies utilizing the modulated dielectric gates can only yield a moderate, spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Tianlin Li , Hanying Chen , Kun Wang , Yifei Hao , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xia Hong

Hybridization of highly itinerant Dirac electrons with localized flat-band states is predicted to yield emergent phenomena such as exotic heavy-fermion behaviour. Epitaxial graphene on two-dimensional adsorbate structures on SiC(0001),…

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

The Dirac point with a double-cone structure for optical fields, an optical analogy Dirac fermions in graphene, can be realized in optically homogenous metamaterials. The condition for the realization of Dirac point in optical systems is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Gang Wang , Zhi-Guo Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Epitaxial graphene on SiC possesses, quite remarkably, an electron spectrum similar to that of freestanding samples. Yet, the coupling to the substrate, albeit small, affects the quasiparticle properties. Combining \emph{ab initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg Pankratov , Stephan Hensel , Michel Bockstedte

Some important features of the graphene physics can be reproduced by loading ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice with honeycomb symmetry and we address here its experimental feasibility. We analyze in great…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Kean Loon Lee , Benoit Gremaud , Rui Han , Berthold-Georg Englert , Christian Miniatura

We present energy filtered electron emission spectromicroscopy with spatial and wave-vector resolution on few layer epitaxial graphene on SiC$(000-1) grown by furnace annealing. Low energy electron microscopy shows that more than 80% of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Mathieu , N. Barrett , J. Rault , Y. Y. Mi , B. Zhang , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad , O. Renault

Twisted bilayer graphene is an excellent example of highly correlated system demonstrating a nearly flat electron band, the Mott transition and probably a spin liquid state. Besides the one-electron picture, analysis of Dirac points is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-28 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin

This manuscript presents the general approach to the understanding of the connection between bonding mechanism and electronic structure of graphene on metals. To demonstrate its validity, two limiting cases of the "weakly" and "strongly"…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-08 E. N. Voloshina , Yu. S. Dedkov

Recently a paper of Klimovskikh et al. was published presenting experimental and theoretical analysis of the graphene/Pb/Pt(111) system. The authors investigate the crystallographic and electronic structure of this graphene-based system by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-12 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina