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We study possible patterns for spontaneous symmetry breaking in a Dirac fermion model, which is applicable to twisted bilayer graphene at charge neutrality. We show how a chiral SU(4) symmetry emerges and construct the corresponding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Nikolaos Parthenios , Laura Classen

Bilayer graphene in a perpendicular electric field can host domain walls between regions of reversed field direction or interlayer stacking. The gapless modes propagating along these domain walls, while not strictly topological,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Benjamin J. Wieder , Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

We study the effect of spatial modulations in the interlayer hopping of graphene bilayers, such as those that arise upon shearing or twisting. We show that their single-particle physics, characterized by charge accumulation and recurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pablo San-Jose , Jose Gonzalez , Francisco Guinea

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

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene with N>=2 is susceptible to a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which each spin-valley flavor spontaneously transfers charge between layers. In mean-field theory the neutral bilayer ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

Plasma oscillations in doped graphene bilayer at zero temperature has been investigated. Bias voltage effect on the dispersion curve for plasmon in bigraphene has been studied in random phase approximation. The possibility of controlling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 E. I. Kukhar , S. V. Kryuchkov

Electronic states confined to zero angle grain boundaries in single layer graphene are analyzed using topological band theoretic arguments. We identify a hidden chiral symmetry which supports symmetry protected zero modes in projected bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Madeleine Phillips , E. J. Mele

We theoretically show that an interlayer bias voltage in the AB-stacked bilayer graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges induces an electric polarization along the ribbon. Both tight-binding and ab initio calculations consistently indicate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Ryo Okugawa , Junya Tanaka , Takashi Koretsune , Susumu Saito , Shuichi Murakami

Here we report from our theoretical studies that in biased bilayer graphene, one can induce phase transitions from an incompressible fractional quantum Hall state to a compressible state by tuning the bandgap at a given electron density.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-26 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Electronic states at domain walls in bilayer graphene are studied by analyzing their four and two band continuum models, by performing numerical calculations on the lattice, and by using quantum geometric arguments. The continuum theories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Fan Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , E. J. Mele

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

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

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea

We show that the electric charge of the Skyrmion in the vector order parameters that characterize the quantum anomalous spin Hall state and the layer-antiferromagnet in a graphene bilayer is four and zero, respectively. The result is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-28 Chi-Ken Lu , Igor F. Herbut

We study the electronic structures of ABA (Bernal) stacked multilayer graphenes in uniform perpendicular electric field, and show that the interplay of the trigonal warping and the potential asymmetry gives rise to a number of emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Takahiro Morimoto , Mikito Koshino

Transmission profiles in bilayer graphene have been studied theoretically in presence of a pair of delta function magnetic barriers. Two types of asymmetric Fano resonances are discussed in connection to the electronic cloaking effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 S. Maiti , R. Biswas , C. Sinha

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

Undoped bilayer graphene is a two-dimensional semimetal with a low-energy excitation spectrum that is parabolic in the momentum. As a result, the screening of an arbitrary external charge $Ze$ is accompanied by a reconstruction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Daniel L. Abrams