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Trilayer graphene exhibits valley-protected gapless states when the stacking order changes from ABC to CBA and a gate voltage is applied to outer layers. Some of these states survive strong distortions of the trilayer. For example, they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

We study the optical response of the alternating twisted trilayer graphene by making use of a unitary transformation for the trilayer Hamiltonian and the Kubo formulation of linear response theory. The layer-resolved optical conductivities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dionisios Margetis , Guillermo Gómez-Santos , Tobias Stauber

Trilayer graphene is receiving an increasing level of attention due to its stacking--dependent magnetoelectric and optoelectric properties, and its more robust ferromagnetism relative to monolayer and bilayer variants. Additionally,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 M. F. C. Martins Quintela , N. M. R. Peres

The electronic tunneling properties of the two stable forms of trilayer graphene (TLG), rhombohedral ABC and Bernal ABA, are examined for pn and pnp junctions as realized by using a single gate (SG) or a double gate (DG). For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Van Duppen , S. H. R. Sena , F. M. Peeters

The Landau level spectra and the quantum Hall effect of ABA-stacked multilayer graphenes are studied in the effective mass approximation. The low-energy effective mass Hamiltonian may be partially diagonalized into an approximate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

We investigate transport properties through a rectangular potential barrier in AB-stacked bilayer graphene (AB-BLG) gapped by dielectric layers. Using the Dirac-like Hamiltonian with a transfer matrix approach we obtain transmission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

We investigate the band structure of ABCA-tetralayer graphene (ABCA-TTLG) subjected to an external potential $V$ applied between top and bottom layers. Using the tight-binding model, including the nearest $t$ and next-nearest-neighbor $t'$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We investigated the electronic structure, Fermi surface topology and the emergence of valley imbalance in rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG) induced by the topological proximity and the electric fields. We show that, a strong proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Sovan Ghosh , Bheema Lingam Chittari

A density-matrix formalism within the length gauge is developed for the purpose of calculating the nonlinear response of intrinsic bilayer graphene at terahertz frequencies. Employing a tight-binding model, we find that interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Riley McGouran , Ibraheem Al-Naib , Marc M. Dignam

AA-stacked bilayer graphene supports Fermi circles in its bonding and antibonding bands which coincide exactly, leading to symmetry-breaking in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We analyze a continuum model of this system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We analyze a class of bound defect states in the continuum electronic spectrum of bilayer materials, which emerge independent of symmetry protection or additional degrees of freedom. Taking graphene as a prototypical example, our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daniel Massatt , Stephen P. Shipman , Ilya Vekhter , Justin H. Wilson

We calculate the dynamical conductivity of AA-stacked bilayer graphene as a function of frequency and in the presence of a finite chemical potential due to charging. Unlike the monolayer, we find a Drude absorption at charge neutrality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

In this thesis we will focus on a particular variant of few-layer graphene -- ABA-stacked trilayer graphene. Bernal (ABA) stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) is a multiband system consisting of a pair of Dirac-like massless linear bands and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Biswajit Datta

Few layer graphene systems such as Bernal stacked bilayer and rhombohedral (ABC-) stacked trilayer offer the unique possibility to open an electric field tunable energy gap. To date, this energy gap has been experimentally confirmed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. Khodkov , I Khrapach , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

Domain walls separating regions of AB and BA interlayer stacking in bilayer graphene have attracted attention as novel examples of structural solitons, topological electronic boundaries, and nanoscale plasmonic scatterers. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guang-Xin Ni , Zachariah Addison , Jing K. Shi , Xiaomeng Liu , Frank Zhao , P. Kim , E. J. Mele , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

We investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez

Theory of spin-orbit coupling in bilayer graphene is presented. The electronic band structure of the AB bilayer in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a transverse electric field is calculated from first-principles using the linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Sergej Konschuh , Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

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

We investigate the interplay of in-plane magnetic and transverse electric fields in AB-stacked bilayer graphene. In prior work, we demonstrated that this configuration induces an insulator-metal (IM) transition with large impact on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Amarnath Chakraborty , Aleksandr Rodin , Shaffique Adam , Giovanni Vignale