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Electronic properties of quantum dots (QDs) depend sensitively on their parent materials. Therefore, confined electronic states in graphene QDs (GQDs) of monolayer and Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene are quite different. Twisted bilayer…

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Finite graphene nanoribbon (GNR) heterostructures host intriguing topological in-gap states (Rizzo, D. J. et al.~\textit{Nature} \textbf{2018}, \textit{560}, 204]). These states may be localized either at the bulk edges, or at the ends of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jan-Philip Joost , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Michael Bonitz

The Closed Cluster method (CC method) is applied to find solutions for various calculation problems of the energy band structure of graphene. The essence of the CC method consists in the addition of closing bonds between edge atoms to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Ilja I. Taljanskij

A thorough understanding of the electronic structure is a necessary first step for the design of nanoelectronics, chemical/bio-sensors, electrocatalysts, and nanoplasmonics using graphene. As such, theoretical spectroscopic techniques to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-04 Duncan J. Mowbray

We study electronic states of semi-infinite graphene with a corner edge, focusing on the stability of edge localized states at zero energy. The 60{\deg}, 90{\deg}, 120{\deg} and 150{\deg} corner edges are examined. The 60{\deg} and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuji Shimomura , Yositake Takane , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Five tensor equations are obtained for a thin shell in Gauss-Bonnet gravity. There is the well known junction condition for the singular part of the stress tensor intrinsic to the shell, which we also prove to be well defined. There are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Elias Gravanis , Steven Willison

Using ab-initio methods we investigate the possibility of three-terminal graphene "T-junction" devices and show that these all-graphene edge contacts are energetically feasible when the 1D interface itself is free from foreign atoms. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Kåre Wedel Jacobsen , Jesper Toft Falkenberg , Nick Papior , Peter Bøggild , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Mads Brandbyge

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Simon Becker , Mark Embree , Jens Wittsten , Maciej Zworski

The recently synthesized 30$^\circ$ twisted bilayer graphene (30$^\circ$-TBG) systems are unique quasicrystal systems possessing dodecagonal symmetry with graphene's relativistic properties. We employ a real-space numerical atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , Caio Lewenkopf

The present study explores the edge states in a finite-width graphene ribbon and a semi-infinite geometry subject to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, applied perpendicular to a zigzag edge. To accomplish this,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

Twisted bilayer materials have attracted tremendous attention due to their unique and novel properties. Here, we derive a thermodynamic model for twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the framework of the classical statistical mechanics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Weidong Yan , Langquan Shui , Wengen Ouyang , Ze Liu

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

We investigate the band structure of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG), or twisted graphene on bilayer graphene (tGBG), as a function of twist angles and perpendicular electric fields in search of optimum conditions for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) has emerged as an important platform for studying correlated phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity, in two-dimensional systems. The complexity of the atomic-scale structures in TBLG has made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-07 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Efthimios Kaxiras

We study graphene in a two-dimensional dynamical noncommutative space in the presence of a constant magnetic field. The model is solved using perturbation theory and to the second order of perturbation. The energy levels of the system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Ilyas Haouam , S Ali Alavi

The experimental control over the twist angle in twisted bilayer graphene has not been reported and its realistic structure is most likely incommensurate. In this paper, we develop a tight-binding virtual crystal approximation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Ghader , D. Szczȩśniak , A. Khater

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

A non-perturbative relativistic tight-binding (TB) approximation method applicable to crystalline material immersed in a magnetic field was developed in 2015. To apply this method to any material in the magnetic field, the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 Rohin Sharma , Amit Shrestha , Masahiko Higuchi , Katsuhiko Higuchi , Dipendra B. Hamal

We propose a novel periodicity-free unfolding method of the electronic energy spectra. Our new method solves a serious problem that calculated electronic band structure strongly depends on the choice of the simulation cell, i.e.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-12 Taichi Kosugi , Hirofumi Nishi , Yasuyuki Kato , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Enrique Arias , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio Lewenkopf