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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

Chirality in tellurium derives from a Peierls distortion driven by strong electron-phonon coupling, making this material a unique candidate for observing a light-induced topological phase transition. By using time- and angle-resolved…

We study the electronic structures of ABA (Bernal) stacked multilayer graphenes in uniform perpendicular electric field, and show that the interplay of the trigonal warping and the potential asymmetry gives rise to a number of emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Takahiro Morimoto , Mikito Koshino

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

In the present work we theoretically analyze electroluminescence occurring in a biased single-molecule junction with a chiral bridge imitated by a helical chain. We show that optical transitions between electron states of the chiral linker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Natalya A Zimbovskaya

We have utilized the finite-difference approach to explore electron-tunneling properties in gapped graphene through various electrostatic-potential barriers changing from Gaussian to a triangular envelope function in comparison with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

We investigate photon tunneling in a pair of coupled inverted circular split-ring microwave resonators with four discrete chiral orientations. By varying the spacing between the resonators, we observe strong modulation of the transmission…

The transfer Hamiltonian tunneling current is derived in a time-dependent density matrix formulation and is used to examine photon-assisted tunneling. Bardeen's tunneling expression arises as the result of first order perturbation theory in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Paul S. Davids , Joshua Shank

The relativistic nature of charge carriers in graphene is expected to lead to an angle- dependent transmission through a potential barrier, where Klein tunneling involves annihilation of an electron and a hole at the edges of the barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , N. M. Hassan , Nina Markovic

We theoretically investigate the electromagnetic response of a novel class of multi-layered metamaterials obtained by alternating graphene sheets and dielectric layers, the whole structure not exhibiting a plane of reflection symmetry along…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-24 Carlo Rizza , Elia Palange , Alessandro Ciattoni

A weak perpendicular magnetic field, $B$, breaks the chiral symmetry of each valley in the electron spectrum of graphene, preserving the overall chiral symmetry in the Brillouin zone. We explore the consequences of this symmetry breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ke Wang , M. E. Raikh , T. A. Sedrakyan

We derive the angular generation density of photoexcited carriers in gapless and gapped Bernal bilayer graphene. Exploiting the strong anisotropy of the band structure of bilayer graphene at low energies due to trigonal warping, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 T. J. Osborne , M. E. Portnoi , E. Mariani

It is shown theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum of bilayer graphene with a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) results in the Lifshitz transition - the abrupt change in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 I. V. Iorsh , K. Dini , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

We study the stationary surface photocurrent in 2D electron gas near the helium surface. Electron gas is assumed to be attracted to the helium surface due to the image attracting force and an external stationary electric field. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

It is a fundamental paradigm that the physical effects induced by electric fields are qualitatively different from those induced by magnetic fields. Here we show that electrons at a Dirac point in bilayer graphene experience an unusual type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 R. Winkler , U. Zuelicke

Chiral light-matter interactions can enable polarization to control the direction of light emission in a photonic device. Most realizations of chiral light-matter interactions require external magnetic fields to break time-reversal symmetry…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-19 Zhili Yang , Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi , Edo Waks

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis

When a bilayer of graphene is placed in a suitably configured field effect device, an asymmetry gap can be generated and the carrier concentration made different in each layer. This provides a tunable semiconducting gap, and the valence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. J. Nicol , J. P. Carbotte

Electronic properties of bilayer graphene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and monolayer graphene due to its particular chiral properties and excitation charge carrier dispersions. We study the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari

The on-chip integration of nonreciprocal optical devices remains a critical challenge for modern optoelectronics, as conventional magneto-optic approaches suffer from material incompatibility and excessive optical losses. Nonlinear photonic…