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We have studied the temperature effect on collective excitations in biased bilayer graphene within random-phase approximation. From the zeros of temperature dynamical dielectric function of the system we have found one weakly damped plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Nguyen Van Men , Nguyen Quoc Khanh , Dong Thi Kim Phuong

A novel broadband technique to effectively launch plasmons along a single graphene layer at terahertz (THz) frequencies is proposed. To this end, the coupling of the electromagnetic wave from a readily available plasmonic waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-08 Mohammad Ali Khorrami , Samir El-Ghazaly

We demonstrate theoretically that quantum dots in bilayers of graphene can be realized. A position-dependent doping breaks the equivalence between the upper and lower layer and lifts the degeneracy of the positive and negative momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We compute the phase diagram of a biased graphene bilayer. The existence of a ferromagnetic phase is discussed with respect both to carrier density and temperature. We find that the ferromagnetic transition is first order, lowering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , N. A. P. Silva

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of electrons in metals or semiconductors enabling confinement and control of electromagnetic energy at subwavelength scales. Rapid progress in plasmonics has largely relied on advances in device…

Using the tight-binding model, we report a gap opening in the energy spectrum of the twisted bilayer graphene under the application of pressure, that can be further amplified by the presence of a perpendicular bias voltage. The valley edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. G. M. Duarte , D. R. da Costa , N. M. R. Peres , L. K. Teles , A. J. Chaves

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Sanshui Xiao , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the collective charge excitations (plasmons) in spin polarized graphene, and derive explicit expressions for their dispersion in the undamped regime. From this, we are able to calculate the critical wave vector beyond which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amit Agarwal , Giovanni Vignale

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where the ground state of a system has lower symmetry than the underlying Hamiltonian, is ubiquitous in physics. It leads to multiply-degenerate ground states, each with a different "broken" symmetry labeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan S. Alden , Adam W. Tsen , Pinshane Y. Huang , Robert Hovden , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , David A. Muller , Paul L. McEuen

Thermoelectric power (TEP) is measured in bilayer graphene for various temperatures and charge-carrier densities. At low temperatures, measured TEP well follows the semiclassical Mott formula with a hyperbolic dispersion relation. TEP for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Hu-Jong Lee

Monolayer graphene placed with a twist on top of AB-stacked bilayer graphene hosts topological flat bands in a wide range of twist angles. The dispersion of these bands and gaps between them can be efficiently controlled by a perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Louk Rademaker , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry Abanin

Plasmons dispersion and nonvertical interband transitions in Bi2Se3 single crystals were investigated by electron energy-loss spectroscopy in conjunction with (scanning) transmission electron microscopy, (S)TEM-EELS. Both volume plasmons…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 S. C. Liou , M. -W. Chu , R. Sankar , F. -T. Huang , G. -J. Shu , F. C. Chou , C. H. Chen

We present atomistic calculations on structural and electronic properties of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) consisting of two sets of rotationally misaligned Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Obtained equilibrium atomic structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

Two rich and vibrant fields of investigation, graphene physics and plasmonics, strongly overlap. Not only does graphene possess intrinsic plasmons that are tunable and adjustable, but a combination of graphene with noble-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 A. N. Grigorenko , Marco Polini , K. S. Novoselov

We study the electronic properties of commensurate faulted bilayer graphene by diagonalizing the one-particle Hamiltonian of the bilayer system in a complete basis of Bloch states of the individual graphene layers. Our novel approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 M. Van der Donck , C. De Beule , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

Graphene offers a possibility for actively controlling plasmon confinement and propagation by tailoring its spatial conductivity pattern. However, implementation of this concept has been hampered because uncontrollable plasmon reflection is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Ngoc Han Tu , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Satoshi Sasaki , Makoto Takamura , Koji Muraki , Norio Kumada

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

We study surface waves localized near a surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium covered by a layer of graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. We demonstrate that both TE-TM hybrid surface plasmons can propagate…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar