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Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

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 bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

We investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

Here we study the systematic evolution of the topological properties of a Chern insulator in presence of an electronic dispersion that can be tuned smoothly from being Dirac-like till a semi-Dirac one and beyond. The band structure under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Sayan Mondal , Priyadarshini Kapri , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Saurabh Basu

The recent discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has sparked a renewed interest in the strongly-correlated physics of $sp^2$ carbons, in stark contrast to preliminary investigations which were dominated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

We study the adiabatic topological charge pumping driven by interlayer sliding in the moir\'{e} superlattices. We show that, when we slide a single layer of the twisted bilayer system relatively to the other, a moir\'{e} pattern flow and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Manato Fujimoto , Henri Koschke , Mikito Koshino

We re-examine the band structure of the stripe charge ordered state of $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ under pressure by using an extended Hubbard model within the Hartree mean-field theory. By increasing pressure, we find a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Kobayashi , Y. Suzumura , F. Piéchon , G. Montambaux

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We present the electronic properties of massless Dirac fermions characterized by geometry and topology on a graphene sheet in this chapter. Topological effects can be elegantly illuminated by the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. It leads to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-01 Kee-Su Park

Bilayer graphene is a highly tunable material: not only can one tune the Fermi energy using standard gates, as in single-layer graphene, but the band structure can also be modified by external perturbations such as transverse electric…

Van Hove singularities enhance many-body interactions and induce collective states of matter ranging from superconductivity to magnetism. In magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, van Hove singularities appear at low energies and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Suvronil Datta , Saisab Bhowmik , Harsh Varshney , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , U. Chandni

As the Fermi level and band structure of two-dimensional materials are readily tunable, they constitute an ideal platform for exploring Lifshitz transition, a change in the topology of a material's Fermi surface. Using tetralayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Yanmeng Shi , Shi Che , Kuan Zhou , Supeng Ge , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake , Chun Ning Lau

We theoretically study the energy and optical absorption spectra of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) under a perpendicular electric field. We obtain analytically the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of ATMG up to pentalayer in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Kyungjin Shin , Yunsu Jang , Jiseon Shin , Jeil Jung , Hongki Min

It is shown theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum of bilayer graphene with a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) results in the Lifshitz transition - the abrupt change in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 I. V. Iorsh , K. Dini , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

Low-energy electronic structure of (unbiased) bilayer graphene is made of two Fermi points with quadratic dispersions, if trigonal-warping and other high order contributions are ignored. We show that as a result of this qualitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-04 Oskar Vafek , Kun Yang

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

The tight-binding model of electrons in graphene is reviewed. We derive low-energy Hamiltonians supporting massless Dirac-like chiral fermions and massive chiral fermions in monolayer and bilayer graphene, respectively, and we describe how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edward McCann