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We present a simple group theory explanation of the fact that the energy bands merge in the corners of the Brillouin zone for graphene and for two particular cases of Kagome lattice for arbitrary tight--binding Hamiltonian. We connect the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 E. Kogan

We demonstrate the existence of localized electron and hole states in a ring-shaped potential kink in biased bilayer graphene. Within the continuum description, we show that for sharp potential steps the Dirac equation describing carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. J. P. Xavier , J. M. Pereira , Andrey Chaves , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We study structural and electronic properties of graphene grown on SiC substrate using scanning tunneling microscope (STM), spot-profile-analysis low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Lunan Huang , Yun Wu , M. T. Hershberger , Daixiang Mou , Ben Schrunk , Michael C. Tringides , Myron Hupalo , Adam Kaminski

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The electrons found in Dirac materials are notorious for being difficult to manipulate due to the Klein phenomenon and absence of backscattering. Here we investigate how spatial modulations of the Fermi velocity in two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

The interface between two-dimensional (2D) crystals often forms a Moire superstructure that imposes a new periodicity, which is a key element in realizing complex electronic phases as evidenced in twisted bilayer graphene. A combined angle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Hayoon Im , Suji Im , Kyoo Kim , Ji-Eun Lee , Jinwoong Hwang , Sung-Kwan Mo , Choongyu Hwang

Application of secondary quantized self-consistent Dirac -- Hartree -- Fock approach to consider electronic properties of monolayer graphene with accounting of spin-polarized states allows to coherently explain experimental results on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

We find a systematic reappearance of massive Dirac features at the edges of consecutive minibands formed at magnetic fields B_{p/q}= p\phi_0/(qS) providing rational magnetic flux through a unit cell of the moire superlattice created by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xi Chen , J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

We reexamine the electronic structure of graphene on SiC substrate by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We directly observed multiply cloning of Dirac cone, in addition to ones previously attributed to reconstruction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-21 C. L. Wu , Q. Wan , C. Peng , S. K. Mo , R. Z. Li , K. M. Zhao , Y. P. Guo , C. D. Zhang , N. Xu

We study the commensurately-tilted bilayer graphene in the tight-binding model with changing the interlayer distance, which can be tuned by pressure. We find that at the commensurately-tilted bilayer graphene with moderate rotating angles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Aya Yamada , Yasumasa Hasegawa

In this paper we study random perturbations of first order elliptic operators with periodic potentials. We are mostly interested in Hamiltonians modeling graphene antidot lattices with impurities. The unperturbed operator $H_0 := D_S + V_0$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Jean-Marie Barbaroux , Horia D. Cornean , Sylvain Zalczer

An analysis of the electron localization properties in doped graphene is performed by doing a numerical multifractal analysis. By obtaining the singularity spectrum of a tight-binding model, it is found that the electron wave functions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-01 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G. Naumis

In spite of unscreened Coulomb interactions close to charge neutrality, relativistic massless electrons in graphene allegedly behave as noninteracting particles. A clue to this paradox is that both interaction and kinetic energies scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 K. A. Guerrero-Becerra , Massimo Rontani

We consider the Zitterbewegung of Dirac electrons in the monolayer graphene as the nonrelativistic analog of the phenomenon predicted by E. Schr\"odinger for the relativistic electrons in the free space. So we show that the Dirac electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 John P. Robinson , Henning Schomerus , Laszlo Oroszlany , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

We have achieved mobilities in excess of 200,000 cm^2/Vs at electron densities of ~2*10^11 cm^-2 by suspending single layer graphene. Suspension ~150 nm above a Si/SiO_2 gate electrode and electrical contacts to the graphene was achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. I. Bolotin , K. J. Sikes , Z. Jiang , M. Klima , G. Fudenberg , J. Hone , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer

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