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We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

The occurrence of Landau levels in quantum mechanics when a charged particle is subjected to a uniform magnetic field is well known. Considering the recent interest in the electronic properties of graphene, which admits a dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Aritra Ghosh

We investigate the many-body instabilities of electrons interacting near Van Hove singularities arising in monolayer and twisted bilayer graphene. We show that a pairing instability must be dominant over the tendency to magnetic order as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Gonzalez

We show that, when graphene is subjected to an appropriate one-dimensional external periodic potential, additional branches of massless fermions are generated with nearly the same electron-hole crossing energy as that at the original Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Cheol-Hwan Park , Young-Woo Son , Li Yang , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

We consider graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field at zero temperature with an integral number of filled Landau levels and study the dispersion of single particle-hole excitations. We first analyze the two-body problem of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-13 A. Iyengar , Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

Landau level bending near the edge of graphene, described using 2d Dirac equation, provides a microscopic framework for understanding the quantum Hall Effect (QHE) in this material. We review properties of the QHE edge states in graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

We describe a simple setup generating pure valley currents -- valley transport without charge transport -- in strained graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. The crucial ingredient is a uniaxial strain pattern which couples to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Marcel Franz

We investigate electronic transport in high mobility (\textgreater 100,000 cm$^2$/V$\cdot$s) trilayer graphene devices on hexagonal boron nitride, which enables the observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and an unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Thiti Taychatanapat , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

In this work, we investigate the massive Kane-Mele model for graphene in the presence of disclination and an external magnetic field, where graphene behaviors as a topological insulator. In the low-energy limit, the effective field equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 G. Q. Garcia , J. R. S. Oliveira , P. J. Porfírio , C. Furtado

We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

We investigate a generalized two-dimensional Weyl Hamiltonian, which may describe the low-energy properties of mechanically deformed graphene and of the organic compound alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 under pressure. The associated dispersion has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux , F. Piechon

Twisted bilayer graphene has been argued theoretically to host exceptionally flat bands when the angle between the two layers falls within a magic range near 1.1$^\circ$. This is now strongly supported by experiment, which furthermore…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Kasra Hejazi , Chunxiao Liu , Leon Balents

In the presence of strong magnetic fields the electronic bandstructure of graphene drastically changes. The Dirac cone collapses into discrete non-equidistant Landau levels, which can be externally tuned by changing the magnetic field. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Samuel Brem , Florian Wendler , Ermin Malic

As a canonical response to the applied magnetic field, the electronic states of a metal are fundamentally reorganized into Landau levels. In Dirac metals, Landau levels can be expected without magnetic fields, provided that an inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Zheng Shi , Hai-Zhou Lu , Tianyu Liu

We report infrared magneto-spectroscopy studies on thin crystals of an emerging Dirac material ZrTe5 near the intrinsic limit. The observed structure of the Landau level transitions and zero-field infrared absorption indicate a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-12 Y. Jiang , Z. L. Dun , H. D. Zhou , Z. Lu , K. -W. Chen , S. Moon , T. Besara , T. M. Siegrist , R. E. Baumbach , D. Smirnov , Z. Jiang

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

In this paper, the electronic properties of 30{\deg} twisted double bilayer graphene, which loses the translational symmetry due to the incommensurate twist angle, are studied by means of the tight-binding approximation. We demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-14 Guodong Yu , Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

By means of atomistic tight-binding calculations, we investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the electronic bandstructure of twisted graphene bilayer. We find that the bandstructure is dramatically deformed and the degeneracy of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Viet Hung Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus