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We present a theoretical study on the electron transmission through the AB-BA stacking boundary in multilayer graphene. Using the tight-binding model and the transfer matrix method, we calculate the electron transmission probability through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as an extraordinary platform for investigating exotic quantum states, such as superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects, mainly due to the existence of topological surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 H. B. Xiao , C. Chen , X. Sui , S. H. Zhang , M. Z. Sun , H. Gao , Q. Jiang , Q. Li , L. X. Yang , M. Ye , F. Y. Zhu , M. X. Wang , J. P. Liu , Z. B. Zhang , Z. J. Wang , Y. L. Chen , K. H. Liu , Z. K. Liu

The manipulation and movement of Dirac points in the Brillouin zone by the electron-electron interaction is considered within leading order perturbation theory. At the merging point, an infinitesimal interaction is shown to cause opening of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-16 Balázs Dóra , Igor F. Herbut , Roderich Moessner

We show how transitions between different Lifshitz phases in bilayer Dirac materials with and without spin-orbit coupling can be studied by driving the system. The periodic driving is induced by a laser and the resultant phase diagram is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Priyanka Mohan , Sumathi Rao

This study examines the potential of superconductivity in transition metal (TM) intercalated bilayer graphene through a systematic study of the electronic and magnetic properties. We determine the electronic structure for all first row TM…

We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…

The zero gap surface states of a 3D-topological insulator host Dirac fermions with spin locked to the momentum. The gap-less Dirac fermions exhibit electronic behaviour different from those predicted in conventional materials. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Parijat Sengupta , Gerhard Klimeck , Enrico Bellotti

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

Since the discovery of graphene, layered materials have attracted extensive interests owing to their unique electronic and optical characteristics. Among them, Dirac semimetal, one of the most appealing categories, has been a long-sought…

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

We have performed low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on exfoliated bilayer graphene on SiO2. By varying the back gate voltage we observed a linear shift of the Dirac point and an opening of a band gap due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-23 A. Deshpande , W. Bao , Z. Zhao , C. N. Lau , B. J. LeRoy

The low-energy electronic properties of strained graphene are usually obtained by transforming the bond vectors according to the Cauchy-Born rule. In this work, we derive a new effective Dirac Hamiltonian by assuming a more general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

Fermi line of bilayer graphene at zero energy is transformed into four separated points positioned trigonally at the corner of the hexagonal first Brillouin zone. We show that as a result of this trigonal splitting the minimal conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

The fractal spectrum of magnetic minibands (Hofstadter butterfly), induced by the moir\'e super- lattice of graphene on an hexagonal crystal substrate, is known to exhibit gapped Dirac cones. We show that the gap can be closed by slightly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 M. Diez , J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

The topological phases of matter provide the opportunity to observe many exotic properties, like the existence of two dimensional topological surface states in the form of Dirac cone in topological insulators, chiral transport through open…

We discuss the effect of elastic deformations on the electronic properties of bilayer graphene membranes. Distortions of the lattice translate into fictitious gauge fields in the electronic Dirac Hamiltonian which are explicitly derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eros Mariani , Alexander J. Pearce , Felix von Oppen

Unusual electronic property of a Weyl semi-metallic nanowire is revealed. Its band dispersion exhibits multiple subbands of partially flat dispersion, originating from the Fermi arc states. Remarkably, the lowest energy flat subbands bear a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

A graphene bilayer is known to perfectly reflect normally incident electrons due to their chirality. This is similar to Klein tunneling, which, in a monolayer, is instead responsible for perfect transmission at normal incidence. Stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 A. Daboussi , L. Mandhour , J. N. Fuchs , S. Jaziri

We propose a simple scheme to construct a model whose Fermi surface is comprised of crossing-line nodes. The Hamiltonian consists of a normal hopping term and an additional term which is odd under the mirror reflection. The line nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Motohiko Ezawa