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We develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yuting Yang , Ziyuan Jia , Yijia Wu , Zhi-Hong Hang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We consider a setup consisting of two coupled sheets of bilayer graphene in the regime of strong spin-orbit interaction, where electrostatic confinement is used to create an array of effective quantum wires. We show that for suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The emergence of correlated insulating phases in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits strong sample dependence. Here, we derive an Anderson theorem governing the robustness against disorder of the Kramers intervalley coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Kryštof Kolář , Gal Shavit , Christophe Mora , Yuval Oreg , Felix von Oppen

We theoretically analyze the possibility to confine electrons in single-layer graphene with the help of metallic gates, via the evaluation of the density of states of such a gate-defined quantum dot in the presence of a ring-shaped metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

We theoretically investigate atomic frustrated states in diatomic molecules hosted by the bilayer graphene setup twisted by the first magic angle and with broken inversion symmetry in the Dirac cones of the system mini Brillouin zones. Such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-12 W. N. Mizobata , J. E. Sanches , M. Penha , W. C. Silva , C. A. Carvalho , M. S. Figueira , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

Utilizing the Baym-Kadanoff formalism with the polarization function calculated in the random phase approximation, the dynamics of the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene is analyzed. Two phases with nonzero energy gap, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky

We study the band structure of phases induced by depositing bilayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer. Tight-binding and low-energy effective Hamiltonian calculations show that it is possible to induce topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

The conductance of electrostatic wire junctions in bilayer graphene, classified as trivial-trivial or trivial-topological regarding the confinement character on each junction side, is calculated. The topological side always corresponds to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Sungguen Ryu , Rosa López , Llorenç Serra

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

The strong coupling phase diagram of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) predicts a series of exact one particle charge $\pm 1$ gapped excitations on top of the integer-filled ferromagnetic ground-states. Finite-size exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-25 Frank Schindler , Oskar Vafek , B. Andrei Bernevig

We consider magnetic breakdown in twisted bilayer graphene where electrons may hop between semiclassical $k$-space trajectories in different layers. These trajectories within a doubled Brillouin zone constitute a network in which an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

In a quantizing magnetic field, the chiral two-dimensional electron gas in Landau level $N=0$ of bilayer graphene goes through a series of phase transitions at integer filling factors $\nu \in \left[ -3,3\right] $ when the strength of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Côté , Manuel Barrette , Élie Bouffard

The magneto-oscillations in graphene bilayers are studied in the vicinity of the K and K' points of the Brillouin zone within the four-band continuum model ased on the simplest tight-binding approximation involving only the nearest neighbor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 N. A. Goncharuk , L. Smrcka

We theoretically analyze the energy spectrum of a quantum ring in AA-stacked bilayer graphene with radius $R$ for a zero width subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field $B$. An analytical approach, using the Dirac equation, is implemented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Youness Zahidi , Abdelhadi Belouad , Ahmed Jellal

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

We report on ground- and excited state transport through an electrostatically defined few-hole quantum dot in bilayer graphene in both parallel and perpendicular applied magnetic fields. A remarkably clear level scheme for the two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 A. Kurzmann , M. Eich , H. Overweg , M. Mangold , F. Herman , P. Rickhaus , R. Pisoni , Y. Lee , R. Garreis , C. Tong , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

The recent discovery of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene raises the question of whether the physics of graphene and its bilayer offers any advantages over GaAs-based materials in exploring strongly-correlated states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Z. Papic , R. Thomale , D. A. Abanin