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We propose a spectroscopic method of identifying broken symmetry states of bilayer graphene. We demonstrate theoretically that, in contrast to gapped states, a strained bilayer crystal or nematic phase of the electronic liquid are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We point out that plasmons in doped graphene simultaneously enable low-losses and significant wave localization for frequencies below that of the optical phonon branch $\hbar\omega_{Oph}\approx 0.2$ eV. Large plasmon losses occur in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

Bilayer graphene is susceptible to a family of unusual broken symmetry states with spin and valley dependent layer polarization. We report on a microscopic study of the domain walls in these systems, demonstrating that they have interesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Xiao Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Niu , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate coherent electron dynamics in graphene, interacting with the electric field waveform of two orthogonally polarized, few-cycle laser pulses. Recently, we demonstrated that linearly polarized driving pulses lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Christian Heide , Takuya Higuchi , Heiko B. Weber , Peter Hommelhoff

Bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense study in recent years. We extend a structural phase field crystal method to include an external potential from adjacent layer(s), which is generated by the corresponding phase field and changes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-24 Kai Liu

The shape of a few-cycle terahertz (THz) laser pulse can be optimized to provide control over conduction band populations in graphene. To demonstrate this control in a theoretical way, a spectral parametrization of the driving pulse using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Denis Gagnon , Joey Dumont , François Fillion-Gourdeau , Steve MacLean

We calculate the temperature-dependent charge carrier transport of bilayer graphene (BLG) impacted by Coulomb impurity scattering within the random phase approximation. We find the polarizability is equal to the density of states at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Min Lv , Shaolong Wan

We calculate the dynamical conductivity of AA-stacked bilayer graphene as a function of frequency and in the presence of a finite chemical potential due to charging. Unlike the monolayer, we find a Drude absorption at charge neutrality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

We study the effects of site dilution disorder on the electronic properties in graphene multilayers, in particular the bilayer and the infinite stack. The simplicity of the model allows for an easy implementation of the coherent potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

Graphene on hBN (G/hBN) has a long period moir\'{e} superstructure owing to the lattice mismatch between two materials. Long periodic potential caused by the moir\'{e} superstructure induces modulation of electronic properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Keisuke Nakagahara , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Compared to monolayer graphene, electrons in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) have an additional layer degree of freedom, offering a platform for developing {\it layered spintronics} with the help of proximity-induced magnetism. Based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

We carry out an explicit calculation of the vacuum polarization tensor for an effective low-energy model of monolayer graphene in the presence of a weak magnetic field of intensity $B$ perpendicularly aligned to the membrane. By expanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Valenzuela , Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , Marcelo Loewe , Alfredo Raya

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

Translocation of DNA through a nanopore with embedded electrodes is at the centre of new rapid inexpensive sequencing methods which allow distinguishing the four nucleobases by their different electronic structure. However, the subnanometer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Yuhui He , Makusu Tsutsui , Ralph H. Scheicher , Masateru Taniguchi , Tomoji Kawai

Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here we study the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

We study the problem of impurities and mid-gap states in a biased graphene bilayer. We show that the properties of the bound states, such as localization lengths and binding energies, can be controlled externally by an electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

We describe how the out-of-plane dielectric polarizability of monolayer graphene influences the electrostatics of bilayer graphene -- both Bernal (BLG) and twisted (tBLG). We compare the polarizability value computed using density…

We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

The static dielectric function in AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), subjected to an electric field applied perpendicular to layers, is calculated analytically within the random phase approximation (RPA). This result is used to calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yawar Mohammadi

We consider the effect of periodic scalar and vector potentials generated by periodic deformations of the graphene crystal lattice, on the energy spectrum of electrons. The dependence of electron velocity near the Dirac point on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. K. Dugaev , M. I. Katsnelson