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The flat bands in bilayer graphene(BLG) are sensitive to electric fields E\bot directed between the layers, and magnify the electron-electron interaction effects, thus making BLG an attractive platform for new two-dimensional (2D) electron…

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Bilayer graphene (BLG) is semiconductor whose band gap and properties can be tuned by various methods such as doping or applying gate voltage. Here, we show how to tune electronic properties of BLG by intercalation of transition metal (TM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Srimanta Pakhira , Kevin P. Lucht , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

The Dirac-like quasiparticles in honeycomb graphene lattice are taken to possess a non-zero effective mass. The charge carriers involve to interact with a femtosecond strong laser pulse. Due to the scattering time of electrons in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Z. Ahmadi , H. Goudarzi , A. Jafari

We study the dynamics of systems quenched through topological quantum phase transitions and investigate the behavior of the bulk and edge excitations with various quench rates. Specifically, we consider the Haldane model and checkerboard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 Shiuan-Fan Liou , Kun Yang

Bilayer graphene (BLG) has recently attracted a great deal of attention because of its electrically tunable energy gaps and its unusual electronic structure. In this Letter we present analytical and semi-analytical expressions, based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-03 Giovanni Borghi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

We argue that in a second order quantum phase transition driven by an inhomogeneous quench density of quasiparticle excitations is suppressed when velocity at which a critical point propagates across a system falls below a threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacek Dziarmaga , Marek M. Rams

We have investigated the Coulomb screening properties and plasmon spectrum in a bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric bias. The bias voltage applied between the two graphene layers opens a gap in the single particle energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-04 Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

We study a magnetic impurity intercalated in bilayer graphene. A representative configuration generates a hybridization function with strong dependence on the conduction-electron energy, including a full gap with one hard and one soft edge.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-22 Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Arturo Wong , Kevin Ingersent , Sergio Ulloa , Nancy Sandler

Using the continuum model, we investigate the electronic properties of two types of bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum ring (QR) geometries: (i) an isolated BLG QR and (ii) a monolayer graphene (MLG) with a QR put on top of an infinite graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. Mirzakhani , D. R. da Costa , F. M. Peeters

We review our recent time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments, which measure the transient electronic structure of optically driven graphene. For pump photon energies in the near infrared…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-10 Isabella Gierz , Andrea Cavalleri

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

The gapless energy band spectra make the structures based on graphene and graphene bilayers with the population inversion created by optical or injection pumping to be promising media for the interband terahertz (THz) lasing. However, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Svintsov , T. Otsuji , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur , V. Ryzhii

With the two-band continuum model, we study the broken inversion and time-reversal symmetry state of electrons with finite-range repulsive interactions in bilayer graphene. With the analytical solution to the mean-field Hamiltonian, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-19 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The electrons in undoped graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions. Therefore graphene can serve as an unique condensed-matter laboratory for the study of various relativistic effects, including quantum electrodynamics (QED) phenomena.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 O. V. Kibis , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

Monitoring electronic properties of 2D materials is an essential step to open a way for applications such as electronic devices and sensors. From this perspective, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) is a fairly simple system that offers great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Ahmed Missaoui , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements of the cyclotron mass), and using a tight binding model, we…

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

The second-order nonlinear electrical response (NLER) is an intrinsic property of inversion symmetry-broken systems which can provide deep insights into the electronic band structures of atomically thin quantum materials. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Tanweer Ahmed , Harsh Varshney , Bao Q. Tu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Marco Gobbi , Fèlix Casanova , Amit Agarwal , Luis E. Hueso

Bilayer graphene (BLG) at the charge neutrality point (CNP) is strongly susceptible to electronic interactions, and expected to undergo a phase transition into a state with spontaneous broken symmetries. By systematically investigating a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Wenzhong Bao , Jairo Velasco , Fan Zhang , Lei Jing , Brian Standley , Dmitry Smirnov , Marc Bockrath , Allan MacDonald , Chun Ning Lau