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We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-31 Hao Wang , D. N. Sheng , L. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

Electronic properties of surface areas decoupled from graphite are studied using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. We show that it is possible to identify decoupled graphene monolayer, Bernal bilayer, and Bernal trilayer on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Long-Jing Yin , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Electron wavefunctions in twisted bilayer graphene may have a strong single layer character or be intrinsically delocalized between layers, with their nature often determined by how energetically close they are to the Dirac point. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

Dirac electrons in finite graphene samples with zigzag edges under high magnetic fields (in the regime of Landau-level formation) are investigated with regard to their bulk-type and edge-type character. We employ tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Electronic instabilities at the crossing of the Fermi energy with a Van Hove singularity in the density of states often lead to new phases of matter such as superconductivity, magnetism or density waves. However, in most materials this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Guohong Li , A. Luican , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , A. Reina , J. Kong , E. Y. Andrei

The electronic Raman scattering of bulk graphite at zero magnetic field reveals a structureless signal characteristic of a metal. For T<~100 K and B > 2 T, several peaks at energies scaling linearly with magnetic field were observed and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-10 A. F. Garcia-Flores , H. Terashita , E. Granado , Y. Kopelevich

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene under pressure develops very interesting features with an enhancement of the trigonal warping and a splitting of the parabolic touching bands at the K point of the reciprocal space into four…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 F Munoz , H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , Jorge O. Sofo , C. A. Balseiro

We study electronic contribution to the Raman scattering signals of two-, three- and four-layer graphene with layers at one of the interfaces twisted by a small angle with respect to each other. We find that the Raman spectra of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 A. Garcia-Ruiz , J. J. P. Thompson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in magnetic field was used to study Landau quantization in graphene and its dependence on charge carrier density. Measurements were carried out on exfoliated graphene samples deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adina Luican , Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

The structural and electronic properties of graphene leads its charge carriers to behave like relativistic particles, which is described by a Dirac-like Hamiltonian. Since graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms, the strain due to elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

We study the problem of Dirac fermion confinement in graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. We show, analytically and numerically, that confinement leads to anomalies in the electronic spectrum and to a magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 E. Suárez Morell , J. D. Correa , P. Vargas , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic

In the context of the low energy effective theory, the exact Landau level spectrum of quasiparticles in twisted bilayer graphene with small twist angle is analytically obtained by spheroidal eigenvalues. We analyze the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Min-Young Choi , Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim

Two-dimensional electrons in graphene are known to behave as massless fermions with Dirac-Weyl type linear dispersion near the Dirac crossing points. We have investigated the collective excitations of this system in the presence or absence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim Apalkov , Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

The carrier density distributions in few-layer-graphene systems grown on the carbon face of silicon carbide can be altered by the presence of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip used to probe top-layer electronic properties, and by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 Hongki Min , S. Adam , Young Jae Song , Joseph A. Stroscio , M. D. Stiles , A. H. MacDonald

The Landau level spectrum of graphene superlattices is studied using a tight-binding approach. We consider non-interacting particles moving on a hexagonal lattice with an additional one-dimensional superlattice made up of periodic square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer