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A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

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We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements of the cyclotron mass), and using a tight binding model, we…

Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering. Here we demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Ceren B. Dag

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Modulation of electronic states in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by using in-plane variations of the band gap or the average potential in lateral quantum structures. In the atomic configurations with hexagonal symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Feng-Wu Chen , Mei-Yin Chou , Yiing-Rei Chen , Yu-Shu Wu

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene with N>=2 is susceptible to a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers. In mean-field theory the neutral bilayer ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

We show that the twisted graphene bilayer can reveal unusual topological properties at low energies, as a consequence of a Dirac-point splitting. These features rely on a symmetry analysis of the electron hopping between the two layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , F. Guinea , G. Montambaux , A. H. Castro Neto

In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops dynamical band gaps in its quasi-energy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator. Here we analyze how topologically protected edge states arise inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Gonzalo Usaj , P. M. Perez-Piskunow , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro

We derive semiclassical quantization equations for graphene mono- and bilayer systems where the excitations are confined by the applied inhomogeneous magnetic field. The importance of a semiclassical phase, a consequence of the spinor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 A. Kormanyos , P. Rakyta , L. Oroszlany , J. Cserti

The evolution of single particle excitations of bilayer graphene under effects of non-Markovian noise is described with focus on the decoherence process of lattice-layer (LL) maximally entangled states. Once that the noiseless dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Massimo Blasone , Alex E. Bernardini

Edge states in biased bilayer graphene in a magnetic field are studied within the four-band continuum model. The analysis is done for the semi-infinite graphene plane and for the graphene ribbon of a finite width, in the cases of zigzag and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 P. K. Pyatkovskiy

The instanton approach to the in-gap fluctuation states is applied to the spectrum of biased bilayer graphene. It is shown that the density of states falls off with energy measured from the band-edge as $\nu(\epsilon)\propto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Mkhitaryan , M. E. Raikh

A gate induced insulating behavior at zero magnetic field is observed in a high mobility suspended monolayer graphene near the charge neutrality point. The graphene device initially cleaned by a current annealing technique was undergone a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Cenk Yanik , Vahid Sazgari , Abdulkadir Canatar , Yaser Vaheb , Ismet I. Kaya

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 study the electronic structure of graphene with a single substitutional vacancy using a combination of the density-functional, tight-binding, and impurity Green's function approaches. Density functional studies are performed with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 B. R. K. Nanda , M. Sherafati , Z. Popović , S. Satpathy

Anomalous quantum Hall effects in single-layer and bilayer graphene are related with nontrivial topological properties of electron states (Berry phases $\pi$ and 2$\pi$, respectively). It was known that the Atiyah-Singer index theorem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 M. I. Katsnelson , M. F. Prokhorova

Bilayer graphene is a nanomaterial that allows for well-defined, separated quantum states to be defined by electrostatic gating and, therefore, provides an attractive platform to construct tunable quantum dots. When a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Jozef Bucko , Frank Schäfer , František Herman , Rebekka Garreis , Chuyao Tong , Annika Kurzmann , Thomas Ihn , Eliska Greplova

A new type of states in graphene-based planar heterojunctions has been studied in the envelope wave function approximation. The condition for the formation of these states is the intersection between the dispersion curves of graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin

The flat band is a key ingredient for the realization of interesting quantum states for novel functionalities. In this work, we investigate the conditions for the flat band in both monolayer and bilayer graphene under periodic strain. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Xiaohan Wan , Siddhartha Sarkar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We introduce a model for amorphous grain boundaries in graphene, and find that stable structures can exist along the boundary that are responsible for local density of states enhancements both at zero and finite (~0.5 eV) energies. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Andrej Mesaros , Stefanos Papanikolaou , C. F. J. Flipse , Darius Sadri , Jan Zaanen