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We study the effect of twisting on bilayer graphene. The effect of lattice relaxation is included; we look at the electronic structure, piezo-electric charges and spontaneous polarisation. We show that the electronic structure without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Symmetry breaking in a quantum system often leads to complex emergent behavior. In bilayer graphene (BLG), an electric field applied perpendicular to the basal plane breaks the inversion symmetry of the lattice, opening a band gap at the…

The stability of the zero-energy Landau levels in bilayer graphene against the chiral symmetric disorder is examined in the presence of the trigonal warping. Based on the tight-binding lattice model with a bond disorder correlated over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

The electron transmission between monolayer and bilayer graphene is theoretically studied for zigzag and armchair boundaries within an effective-mass scheme. Due to the presence of an evanescent wave in the bilayer graphene, traveling modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Takeshi Nakanishi , Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

We propose a spectroscopic method of identifying broken symmetry states of bilayer graphene. We demonstrate theoretically that, in contrast to gapped states, a strained bilayer crystal or nematic phase of the electronic liquid are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

We investigate the electronic structure of realistic partial dislocation networks in bilayer graphene that feature annihilating, wandering, and intersecting partial lines. We find charge accumulation states at partials that are sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 D. Weckbecker , R. Gupta , F. Rost , S. Sharma , S. Shallcross

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

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-02 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Using exact diagonalization, we study the projected Hamiltonian with Coulomb interaction in the 8 flat bands of first magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Employing the U(4) (U(4)$\times$U(4)) symmetries in the nonchiral (chiral) flat band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Fang Xie , Aditya Cowsik , Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

It is a fundamental paradigm that the physical effects induced by electric fields are qualitatively different from those induced by magnetic fields. Here we show that electrons at a Dirac point in bilayer graphene experience an unusual type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 R. Winkler , U. Zuelicke

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange field, interlayer bias, and irradiated by light. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

We demonstrate that the low-frequency resistance fluctuations, or noise, in bilayer graphene is strongly connected to its band structure, and displays a minimum when the gap between the conduction and valence band is zero. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-09 Atindra Nath Pal , Arindam Ghosh

Fractionalization is a phenomenon in which strong interactions in a quantum system drive the emergence of excitations with quantum numbers that are absent in the building blocks. Outstanding examples are excitations with charge e/3 in the…

Fermion-number fractionalization without breaking of time-reversal symmetry was recently demonstrated for a field theory in $(2+1)$-dimensional space and time that describes the couplings between massive Dirac fermions, a complex-valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-07 Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , Christopher Mudry , So-Young Pi , Gordon Semenoff

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

Intrinsic Hall conductivity, emerging when chiral symmetry is broken, is at the heart of future low energy consumption devices because it can generate non-dissipative charge neutral current. A symmetry breaking state is also induced by…

Recently a new high-mobility Dirac material, trilayer graphene, was realized experimentally. The band structure of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene consists of a monolayer-like and a bilayer-like pairs of bands. Here we study electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Maksym Serbyn , Dmitry A. Abanin

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the band structure of graphene-based two-dimensional Dirac fermion gases in the quantum Hall regime. Taking monolayer graphene as our first candidate, we show that a quantum phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Pierre Carmier , Oleksii Shevtsov , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

The low energy electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are studied using a long wavelength theory applicable to general commensurate fault angles. Lattice commensuration requires low energy electronic coherence across a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. J. Mele