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Graphene bilayers with layer antisymmetric strains are studied using the Dirac-Harper model for a pair of single layer Dirac Hamiltonians coupled by a one-dimensional moir\'e-periodic interlayer tunneling amplitude. This model hosts low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Abigail Timmel , E. J. Mele

We predict that a strong nonreciprocity in the resonance spectra of Dirac quantum dots can be induced by the Berry phase. The nonreciprocity arises in relatively weak magnetic fields and is manifest in anomalously large field-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Leonid S. Levitov

We consider the anomalous thermoelectric transport in gapped single and bilayer graphene where the gap may be due to broken inversion symmetry. In the presence of the gap, non-trivial Berry phase effects can be shown to mediate a transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 Chuanwei Zhang , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We discuss plasmons of biased twisted bilayer graphene when the Fermi level lies inside the gap. The collective excitations are a network of chiral edge plasmons (CEP) entirely composed of excitations in the topological electronic edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Luis Brey , T. Stauber , T. Slipchenko , L. Martín-Moreno

Berry phase plays an important role in determining many physical properties of quantum systems. However, a Berry phase altering energy spectrum of a quantum system is comparatively rare. Here, we report an unusual tunable valley polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Ya-Ning Ren , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We theoretically argue that, in doped AB bilayer graphene, the electron-electron coupling can give rise to the spontaneous formation of fractional metal phases. These states, being generalizations of a more common half-metal, have a Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , Franco Nori

We compute the transmission probability through rectangular potential barriers and p-n junctions in the presence of a magnetic and electric fields in bilayer graphene taking into account contributions from the full four bands of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Ahmed Jellal , Ilham Redouani , Hocine Bahlouli

Chirality is one of the key features governing the electronic properties of single- and bilayer graphene: the basics of this concept and its consequences on transport are presented in this review. By breaking the inversion symmetry, a band…

Electron motion in crystals is governed by the coupling between crystal momentum and internal degrees of freedom such as spin implicit in the band structure. The description of this coupling in terms of a momentum-dependent effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 F. Couëdo , H. Irie , T. Akiho , K. Suzuki , K. Onomitsu , K. Muraki

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the scattering phase shift of Dirac fermions at graphene edge. We find that when a plane wave of a Dirac fermion is reflected at an edge of graphene, its reflection phase is shifted by the geometric phase resulting from the change…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Sang-Jun Choi , Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim

Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

Graphene p-n junctions provide an ideal platform for investigating novel behavior at the boundary between electronics and optics that arise from massless Dirac fermions, such as whispering gallery modes and Veselago lensing. Bilayer…

Electronic band structures dictate the mechanical, optical and electrical properties of crystalline solids. Their experimental determination is therefore of crucial importance for technological applications. While the spectral distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 C. Dutreix , H. González-Herrero , I. Brihuega , M. I. Katsnelson , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

Quantum oscillations can be used to determine properties of the Fermi surface of metals by varying the magnitude and orientation of an external magnetic field. Topological insulator surface states are an unusual mix of normal and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 Anthony R. Wright , Ross H. McKenzie

This letter presents our findings on the recursive band gap engineering of chiral fermions in bilayer graphene doubly aligned with hBN. By utilizing two interfering moir\'{e} potentials, we generate a supermoir\'{e} pattern which…

There are known two distinct types of the integer quantum Hall effect. One is the conventional quantum Hall effect, characteristic of two-dimensional semiconductor systems, and the other is its relativistic counterpart recently observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Novoselov , E. McCann , S. V. Morozov , V. I. Falko , M. I. Katsnelson , U. Zeitler , D. Jiang , F. Schedin , A. K. Geim

Few-layer graphene possesses low-energy carriers which behave as massive fermions, exhibiting intriguing properties in both transport and light scattering experiments. Lowering the excitation energy of resonance Raman spectroscopy down to…

Single-layer carbon, or graphene, demonstrates amazing transport properties, such as the minimum conductivity near $\frac{4e^2}{h}$ independent of shapes and mobility of samples. This indicates there exist some unusual effects due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shi-Jie Xiong , Ye Xiong

Quantum coherent properties of electrons can be studied in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers. We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the transmission phase evolution in a four-terminal quasi-one-dimensional AlGaAs/GaAs-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Christoph Kreisbeck , Tobias Kramer , Sven S. Buchholz , Saskia F. Fischer , Ulrich Kunze , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck