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Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

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

We describe the gated bilayer graphene system when it is subjected to intense terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation. We examine the electron band structure and density of states via exact diagonalization methods within Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

Topologically protected chiral states at a mass-inverted quantum dot in graphene are studied by analyzing both tight-binding and kernal polynomial method calculations. The mass-inverted quantum dot is introduced by considering a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nojoon Myoung

A-B stacked bilayer graphene has massive electron and hole-like excitations with zero gap in the nearest-neighbor hopping approximation. In equilibrium, the quasiparticle occupation approximately follows the usual Fermi-Dirac distribution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dung X. Nguyen , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ma Luo

We propose that bilayer graphene can provide an experimental realization of deconfined criticality. Current experiments indicate the presence of N\'{e}el order in the presence of a moderate magnetic field. The N\'{e}el order can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-28 Junhyun Lee , Subir Sachdev

Using the variable phase method, we reformulate the Dirac equation governing the charge carriers in graphene into a nonlinear first-order differential equation from which we can treat both confined-state problems in electron waveguides and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 D. A. Stone , C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Bilayer graphene has been predicted to give unprecedented tunability of the electron-electron interaction with the help of external parameters, allowing one to stabilize different fractional quantum Hall states. Recent experimental works…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-15 Kyrylo Snizhko , Vadim Cheianov , Steven H. Simon

We investigate interaction-induced valley domain walls in bilayer graphene in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state, subject to a perpendicular electric field that is antisymmetric across a line in the sample. Such a state can be realized in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-10 Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig

We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

We investigate the application of nanoscale topgates on exfoliated bilayer graphene to define quantum dot devices. At temperatures below 500 mK the conductance underneath the grounded gates is suppressed, which we attribute to nearest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 André Müller , Bernd Kaestner , Frank Hohls , Thomas Weimann , Klaus Pierz , Hans W. Schumacher

Spin transitions driven by a periodically varying electric potential in dilute fluorinated graphene quantum dots are investigated. Flakes of monolayer graphene are considered as well as electrostatic electron traps induced in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

A properly strained graphene monolayer or bilayer is expected to harbour periodic pseudo-magnetic fields with high symmetry, yet to date, a convincing demonstration of such pseudo-magnetic fields has been lacking, especially for bilayer…

We present gate-controlled single, double, and triple dot operation in electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene. Thanks to the recent advancements in sample fabrication, which include the encapsulation of bilayer graphene in hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Luca Banszerus , Benedikt Frohn , Alexander Epping , Daniel Neumaier , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer

A system similar to gapped graphene (for example, fluorinated) containing two or more electron valleys is considered. It is assumed that the material has a sector cut and is deformed in the plane and the the cut edges are connected to form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

We consider intrinsic contributions to the spin Hall and spin Nernst effects in a bilayer graphene. The relevant electronic spectrum is obtained from the tight binding Hamiltonian, which also includes the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas