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We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

Valley-dependent topological physics offers a promising avenue for designing nanoscale devices based on gapless single-layer graphene. To demonstrate this potential, we investigate an electrical bias-controlled topological discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Zheng-Han Huang , Jing-Yuan Lai , Yu-Shu G. Wu

We examine the magnetic properties of the localized states induced by lattice vacancies in bilayer graphene with an unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculation. We show that with realistic values of the parameters and for experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Eduardo V. Castro , María P. López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the charge carrier dynamics in bilayer graphene subject to monochromatic laser irradiation within the Landau level quantization regime. Even though the radiation field does not lift the energy degeneracy of the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Alexander López , Bertrand Berche , John Schliemann , Francisco Mireles , Benjamin Santos

We discuss, by means of mode-matching analysis for the Dirac equation, how splittings of the Landau-level (LL) degeneracies associated with spin, valley, and layer degrees of freedom affect the ballistic conductance of graphene bilayer. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-23 Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

The zero-energy Landau level of bilayer graphene is shown to be anomalously sharp (delta-function like) against bond disorder as long as the disorder is correlated over a few lattice constants.The robustness of the zero-mode anomaly can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 D. A. Bandurin , A. Principi , I. Y. Phinney , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We have theoretically studied the collective response properties of the two-dimensional chiral electron gas in bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation. The cooperation of external controlling factors like perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Wen-Long You , Xue-Feng Wang

Bilayer graphene, in the presence of a one-sided spin-orbit interaction (SOI) induced by a suitably chosen substrate, is predicted to exhibit unconventional Quantum Hall states. The new states arise due to strong SOI-induced splittings of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Jun Yong Khoo , Leonid Levitov

Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Siqi Wang , Xianqing Lin , Mervin Zhao , Changjian Zhang , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , David Tomanek , Xiang Zhang

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

We present the first Raman spectroscopic study of Bernal bilayer graphene flakes under uniaxial tension. Apart from a purely mechanical behavior in flake regions where both layers are strained evenly, certain effects stem from inhomogeneous…

The coupling of charge carrier motion and pseudospin via chirality for massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene has generated dramatic consequences, such as the unusual quantum Hall effect and Klein tunneling. In bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Kyunghoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Yun Suk Eo , Cagliyan Kurdak , Zhaohui Zhong

We argue that at finite carrier density and large displacement fields, bilayer graphene is prone to $\ell =0$ and $\ell = 1$ Pomeranchuk Fermi surface instabilities. The broken symmetries are driven by non-local exchange interactions which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Jeil Jung , Marco Polini , Allan H. MacDonald

Control over minivalley polarization and interlayer coupling is demonstrated in double bilayer graphene twisted with an angle of 2.37$^\circ$. This intermediate angle is small enough for the minibands to form and large enough such that the…

When graphene is close to charge neutrality, its energy landscape is highly inhomogeneous, forming a sea of electron-like and hole-like puddles, which determine the properties of graphene at low carrier density. However, the details of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 Shaffique Adam , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio , M. D. Stiles

We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

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

The valleys in hexagonal two-dimensional systems with broken inversion symmetry carry an intrinsic orbital magnetic moment. Despite this, such systems possess zero net magnetization unless additional symmetries are broken, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Brian T. Schaefer , Katja C. Nowack

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