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We investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez

We present atomistic calculations on structural and electronic properties of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) consisting of two sets of rotationally misaligned Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Obtained equilibrium atomic structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

We theoretically study the lattice relaxation in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its effect on the electronic band structure. We develop an effective continuum theory to describe the lattice relaxation in general TBGs and obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

Lattice deformations in graphene couple to the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom as effective scalar and gauge fields. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the optical component of the displacement field, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Christophe De Beule , Robin Smeyers , Wilson Nieto Luna , E. J. Mele , Lucian Covaci

The potential energy surface (PES) of interlayer interaction of infinite twisted bilayer graphene is calculated for a set of commensurate moir\'e patterns using the registry-dependent Kolmogorov-Crespi empirical potential. The calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Alexander S. Minkin , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Sergey A. Vyrko , Nikolai A. Poklonski , Yurii E. Lozovik

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Cyclotron resonance in bilayer graphene is studied with weak electron-hole asymmetry, suggested by experiment, taken into account and with the focus on many-body corrections that evade Kohn's theorem. It is shown by direct calculation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Shizuya

A variational technique is used to study sublattice symmetry breaking by strong on-site and nearest neighbor interactions in graphene. When interactions are strong enough to break sublattice symmetry, and with relative strengths…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Y. Araki , G. W. Semenoff

Charge neutral bilayer graphene has a gapped ground state as transport experiments demonstrate. One of the plausible such ground states is layered antiferromagnetic spin density wave (LAF) state, where the spins in top and bottom layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Jie Yuan , Dong-Hui Xu , Hao Wang , Yi Zhou , Jin-Hua Gao , Fu-Chun Zhang

We consider the electronic structure of a slightly twisted graphene bilayer and show the coexistence of van Hove singularities (VHSs) and superlattice Dirac points in a continuum approximation. The graphene-on-graphene moir\'e pattern gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

We introduce a minimum tight-binding model with only three parameters extracted from graphene and untwisted bilayer graphene. This model reproduces quantitatively the electronic structure of not only these two systems and bulk graphite near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xianqing Lin , David Tománek

In this work, we perform ab initio calculations, based on the density functional theory, of the effects on the graphene bilayer when we intercalate carbon atoms between the layers. We use the unit cell of the bilayer to construct larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 A. K. M. Pinto , N. F. Frazão , D. L. Azevedo , F. Moraes

We report calculations of terahertz ellipticities in large-angle, 21.79$^\circ$ and 38.21$^\circ$, commensurate twisted bilayer graphene, and predict values as high as 1.5 millidegrees in the terahertz region for this non-magnetic material.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Spenser Talkington , Eugene J. Mele

Defects in graphene, such as vacancies or adsorbents attaching themselves to carbons, may preferentially take positions on one of its two sublattices, thus breaking the global lattice symmetry. This leads to opening a gap in the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-28 V. V. Cheainov , O. Syljuasen , B. L. Altshuler , V. I. Fal'ko

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

We theoretically study the optical absorption property of twisted bilayer graphenes with various stacking geometries, and demonstrate that the spectroscopic characteristics serve as a fingerprint to identify the rotation angle between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

In this paper, we present a high resolution angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the electronic properties of graphite. We found that the nature of the low energy excitations in graphite is particularly sensitive to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Zhou , G. -H. Gweon , A. Lanzara

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

Motivated by the recently observed sublattice asymmetry of substitutional nitrogen impurities in CVD grown graphene, we show, in a mathematically transparent manner, that oscillations in the local density of states driven by the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 James A. Lawlor , Paul D. Gorman , Stephen R. Power , Claudionor G. Bezerra , Mauro S. Ferreira

AA-stacked bilayer graphene supports Fermi circles in its bonding and antibonding bands which coincide exactly, leading to symmetry-breaking in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We analyze a continuum model of this system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig