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We study the electronic properties of commensurate faulted bilayer graphene by diagonalizing the one-particle Hamiltonian of the bilayer system in a complete basis of Bloch states of the individual graphene layers. Our novel approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 M. Van der Donck , C. De Beule , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

At high magnetic fields the conductance of graphene is governed by the half-integer quantum Hall effect. By local electrostatic gating a \textit{p-n} junction perpendicular to the graphene edges can be formed, along which quantum Hall…

Employing a semiclassical method based on analytic continuation, we compute the electron-hole pair production rate in biased bilayer graphene subject to an in-plane electric field. This approach, originally due to Zwaan, bypasses the need…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Harley Scammell , Oleg P. Sushkov

The conductance and the Fano factor in a graphene sheet in the ballistic regime are calculated. The electrostatic potential in the sheet is modeled by a trapezoid barrier, which allows to use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. B. Sonin

We propose an experimentally friendly scheme for trapping quasi- relativistic elec- trons in graphene by an electromagnetic beam with circular polarization and spatially inhomogeneous profile with an intensity dip. The trapping is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Skender Morina , Kevin Dini , Ivan V. Iorsh , Ivan A. Shelykh

Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are described by formally identical expressions. We explore implications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Ming-Hao Liu , Jan Bundesmann , Klaus Richter

In this paper we study the effect of a fluctuating gap in mono- and bilayer graphene, created by a random staggered potential. We identify a continuous symmetry for the two-particle Green's function which is spontaneously broken in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-05-21 K. Ziegler

Electrons most often organize into Fermi-liquid states in which electron-electron interactions play an inessential role. A well known exception is the case of one-dimensional (1D) electron systems (1DES). In 1D the electron Fermi-surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-09 Fan Zhang , Hongki Min , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

By using the first-principles method based on density of functional theory, we study the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene with some specific twist angles and interlayer spacings. With the decrease of the twist angle(the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Xun-Wang Yan , Jing Li , Yanyun Wang , Miao Gao

Electron bands in the untwisted bilayer graphene flatten out in a transverse electric field, offering a promising platform for correlated electron physics. We predict that the spin/valley isospin magnetism, resembling that seen in moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Zhiyu Dong , Margarita Davydova , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

A p-n junction, induced in graphene by gating, works to contrast the edge states of electrons and holes on each side of it. In a magnetic field those edge states carry two species of persistent current, which are intimately tied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 K. Shizuya

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We describe a nonlinear interaction between charge currents and spin currents which arises from the energy dependence of the conductivity. This allows nonmagnetic contacts to be used for measuring and controlling spin signals. We choose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees

Intrinsic spin Hall effect in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene is studied theoretically. The low-energy electronic spectrum for states in the vicinity of the Dirac points is obtained from the corresponding $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś

The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ma Luo

We consider bilayer graphene in the presence of spin orbit coupling, to assess its behavior as a topological insulator. The first Chern number $n$ for the energy bands of single and bilayer graphene is computed and compared. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 E. Prada , P. San-Jose , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We have developed a process to fabricate suspended graphene devices with local bottom gates, and tested it by realizing electrostatically controlled pn junctions on a suspended graphene mono-layer nearly 2 micrometers long. Measurements as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Anya L. Grushina , Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We investigate the Josephson effect in a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer sheet deposited by superconducting electrodes. It is found that when the electrodes are attached to the different layers of the bilayer, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan , Ali G. Moghaddam

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González