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Twisted graphene layers exhibit extremely low friction for relative sliding. Nevertheless, previous studies suggest that the area contribution to friction for commensurate moir\'e systems is finite and might restrict macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Yulia G. Polynskaya , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Sergey A. Vyrko , Nikolai A. Poklonski

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

The relativistic-like behavior of electrons in graphene significantly influences the interaction properties of these electrons in a quantizing magnetic field, resulting in more stable fractional quantum Hall effect states as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadim Apalkov

When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Hridis K. Pal

We analyze a description of twisted graphene bilayers, that incorporates deformation of the layers due to the nature modern interlayer potentials, and a modification of the hopping parameters between layers in the light of the classic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Dohun Kim , Byungmin Kang , Yong-Bin Choi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the low-energy electronic transport across periodic extended defects in graphene. In the continuum low-energy limit, such defects act as infinitesimally thin stripes separating two regions where Dirac Hamiltonian governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 J. N. B. Rodrigues , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Minimally twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of an interlayer bias develops a triangular network of valley chiral modes that propagate along the $AB/BA$ interfaces and scatter at the $AA$ regions. The low energy physics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , C. De Beule , P. Recher

We investigate theoretically the interplay between the effects of a perpendicular electric field and incommensurability at the interface on the electronic properties of a heterostructure of bilayer graphene and a semiconducting substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

The incommensurate 30$^{\circ}$ twisted bilayer graphene (BG) possesses both relativistic Dirac fermions and quasiperiodicity with 12-fold rotational symmetry arising from the interlayer interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Guodong Yu , Yunhua Wang , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Hai-Qing Lin , Shengjun Yuan

We analyze the ordered phases of Bernal stacked multilayer graphene in the presence of interaction induced band gaps due to sublattice symmetry breaking potentials, whose solutions can be analyzed in terms of light-mass and heavy-mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Chiho Yoon , Yunsu Jang , Jeil Jung , Hongki Min

On a lattice model, we study the possibility of existence of gapped broken inversion symmetry phase (GBISP) of electrons with long-range Coulomb interaction in bilayer graphene using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation (SCHFA)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-26 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

The effects of topology and electron-electron interactions on the phase diagram of ABC stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) at the neutrality point are investigated within a weak coupling renormalization group approach. We find that the leading…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-19 Vladimir Cvetkovic , Oskar Vafek

Broken symmetry states in bilayer graphene in perpendicular electric $E_\perp$ and in-plane magnetic $B_\parallel$ fields are studied in the presence of the dynamically screened long-range Coulomb interaction and the symmetry-breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-16 Junji Jia , P. K. Pyatkovskiy , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

Electron transport in bilayer graphene is studied by using a first principles analysis and theMonte Carlo simulation under conditions relevant to potential applications. While the intrinsic properties are found to be much less desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 X. Li , K. M. Borysenko , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim