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The large lattice constant of Moire superlattice formed in twisted bilayer graphene for small twist enables observing the Landau levels splitting into Hofstadter butterflies in energy spectra for moderate magnetic field. This is expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Tomasz Chwiej

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley,…

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

We investigate how anisotropic strain reorganizes commensurate moir\'e superlattices and electronic structure in twisted bilayer graphene across a finite range of twist angles. Motivated by experiments demonstrating robust magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ayan Mondal , Bheema Lingam Chittari

A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain magic angles (eg. $\theta\sim 1.05^\circ$). In this regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-30 Liujun Zou , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

Multilayered van der Waals structures often lack periodicity, which difficults their modeling. Building on previous work for bilayers, we develop a tight-binding based, momentum space formalism capable of describing incommensurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro

While the exponential decay of tunneling probability with barrier thickness is well known, the accompanying oscillations with thickness have been comparatively less explored. Using a tight binding model, we investigate an AB-stacked bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Ryo Tamura

We study the effect of sublattice symmetry breaking on the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of two dimensional graphene as well as zigzag terminated one and zero dimensional graphene nanostructures. The systems are described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 D. Soriano , J. Fernández-Rossier

We propose a spectroscopic method of identifying broken symmetry states of bilayer graphene. We demonstrate theoretically that, in contrast to gapped states, a strained bilayer crystal or nematic phase of the electronic liquid are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

External magnetic field profiles leading to equidistant and partially equidistant bilayer graphene spectra within the tight-binding model are obtained. This is achieved by implementing the integral and differential versions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Jonathan de la Cruz-Hernandez , David J. Fernández C.

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

In mean-field-theory bilayer graphene's massive Dirac fermion model has a family of broken inversion symmetry ground states with charge gaps and flavor dependent spontaneous inter layer charge transfers. We use a lattice Hartree-Fock model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-22 Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, we study the compressibility instability of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The chemical potential and the compressibility of the electrons can be significantly altered by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-11 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

In twisted bilayer graphene, a unified understanding of the mechanisms governing temperature-dependent electronic spectra and thermodynamic properties remains controversial despite extensive theoretical efforts. Here, we present a…

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

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 study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei