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The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Superfluidity in e-h bilayers in graphene and GaAs has been predicted many times but not observed. A key problem is how to treat the screening of the Coulomb interaction for pairing. Different mean-field theories give dramatically different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-26 D. Neilson , A. Perali , A. R. Hamilton

When graphene is close to charge neutrality, its energy landscape is highly inhomogeneous, forming a sea of electron-like and hole-like puddles, which determine the properties of graphene at low carrier density. However, the details of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 Shaffique Adam , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio , M. D. Stiles

Stationary waves in the condensate of electron-hole pairs in the $n-p$ bilayer system are studied. The system demonstrates the transition from a uniform (superfluid) to a nonuniform (supersolid) state. The precursor of this transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 D. V. Fil , S. I. Shevchenko

By using analytical solution of a tight-binding model for armchair nanoribbons, it is confirmed that the solution represents the standing wave formed by intervalley scattering and that pseudospin is invariant under the scattering. The phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 K. Sasaki , K. Wakabayashi , T. Enoki

We show that bilayer graphene exhibits magneto-electric effects that are formally similar to those commonly seen in band insulators with broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries. Three unusual features characterize the magneto-electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler

Ballistic transport in graphene p-n junctions in the presence of magnetic field exhibits two distinct regimes: At low fields, transport is partially suppressed by the field. When the field exceeds a certain critical value, the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-23 A. V. Shytov , Nan Gu , L. S. Levitov

We predict a novel class of magnetotransport oscillations in ballistic graphene specific for a ring-shape geometry. Using the B\"uttiker-Landauer formalism, we analytically obtain the local Hall and Nernst coefficients in the weak-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Z. Z. Alisultanov , A. V. Kavokin

We study electronic, charge, and magnetic properties of twisted bilayer graphene with fillings $2\leq n\leq 6$ per moire unit cell within the recently introduced formulation of extended dynamical mean-field theory (E-DMFT) for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 A. A. Katanin

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…

A charged particle whose energy is less than the electric potential step it is incident upon, is expected to undergo partial reflection and transmission. In bilayer graphene, however, a potential step in the form of an antisymmetric kink…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 J. C. Martinez , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

In analogy with light refraction at optical boundary, ballistic electrons also undergo refraction when propagate across a semiconductor junction. Establishing a negative refractive index in conventional optical materials is difficult, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Peng Lv , Ning Dai , Qing-Feng Sun

Coulomb blockade is observed in a graphene nanoribbon device with a top gate. When two pn junctions are formed via the back gate and the local top gate, electrons are confined between the pn junctions which act as the barriers. When no pn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Xinglan Liu , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

We perform transport measurements in high quality bilayer graphene pnp junctions with suspended top gates. At a magnetic field B=0, we demonstrate band gap opening by an applied perpendicular electric field, with an On/Off ratio up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lei Jing , Jairo Velasco , Philip Kratz , Gang Liu , Wenzhong Bao , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

For graphene to be utilized in the digital electronics industry the challenge is to create bandgaps of order 1eV as simply as possible. The most successful methods for the creation of gaps in graphene are (a) confining the electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 A. R. Davenport , J. P. Hague

The paper discusses the Klein tunneling and Fabry-P\'erot resonances of charge carriers through a rectangular potential barrier in twisted bilayer graphene. Within the framework of the low-energy excitations, the transmission probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi

We present an ab-initio density function theory to investigate the electronic and magnetic structures of the bilayer graphene with intercalated atoms C, N, and O. The intercalated atom although initially positioned at the middle site of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-07 S. J. Gong , W. Sheng , Z. Q. Yang , J. H. Chu

Low-energy excitations in graphene exhibit relativistic properties due to the linear dispersion relation close to the Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone. Two of the Dirac points located at opposite corners of the first Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 T. Sekera , C. Bruder , E. J. Mele , R. P. Tiwari

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

According to electronic structure theory, bilayer graphene is expected to have anomalous electronic properties when it has long-period moir\'e patterns produced by small misalignments between its individual layer honeycomb lattices. We have…