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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has drawn significant interest due to recent experiments which show that TBG can exhibit strongly correlated behavior such as the superconducting and correlated insulator phases. Much of the theoretical work…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Tianyu Kong , Alexander B. Watson , Mitchell Luskin , Kevin D. Stubbs

We study the electronic transmission through a graphene bilayer in the presence of an applied bias between layers. We consider different geometries involving interfaces between both a monolayer and a bilayer and between two bilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We study the inter-valley scattering induced by the Coulomb repulsion as a purely electronic mechanism for the origin of superconductivity in few layers of graphene. The pairing is strongly favored by the presence of van Hove singularities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-31 Tommaso Cea

Van der Waals heterostructures obtained by artificially stacking two-dimensional crystals represent the frontier of material engineering, demonstrating properties superior to those of the starting materials. Fine control of the interlayer…

In the present paper, we describe the antiferromagnetic and excitonic correlations in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene. We consider the applied external electric field potential to the structure which leads to the electronic charge imbalance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-16 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopec

The ongoing efforts to optimize Li-ion batteries led to the interest in intercalation of nanoscale layered compounds, including bilayer graphene. Its lithium intercalation has been demonstrated recently but the mechanisms underpinning the…

Graphene multilayers exhibit electronic spectra that depend sensitively on both the number of layers and their stacking order. Beyond trilayer graphene, mixed stacking sequences (alternating Bernal and rhombohedral layers) give rise to…

The electronic dispersion of a graphene bilayer is highly dependent on rotational mismatch between layers and can be further manipulated by electrical gating. This allows for an unprecedented control over electronic properties and opens up…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

We propose that a weakly spontaneous charge-ordered insulating state probably exists in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene which can account for experimentally observed non-monotonic behavior of resistance as a function of the gated field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Xiu-Cai Jiang , Ze-Yi Song , Ze Ruan , Yu-Zhong Zhang

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

We study the effect of pressure on the localized magnetic moments induced by vacancies in bilayer graphene in the presence of topological defects breaking the bipartite nature of the lattice. By using a mean-field Hubbard model we address…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Eduardo V. Castro , María P. López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

We study the optical response of the alternating twisted trilayer graphene by making use of a unitary transformation for the trilayer Hamiltonian and the Kubo formulation of linear response theory. The layer-resolved optical conductivities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dionisios Margetis , Guillermo Gómez-Santos , Tobias Stauber

Controlling the stacking and rotational registry of graphene layers provides a powerful handle on atomic-scale structural reconstructions that alter the electronic landscape at the nanoscale. In particular, this governs how massless and…

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a twist-angle-dependent competition between interlayer stacking energy and intralayer elastic energy results in flat rigid layers at large twist angles and lattice reconstruction at small twist angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yi-Wen Liu , Chen-Yue Hao , Chao Yan , Qi Zheng , Ya-Ning Ren , Ya-Xin Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lin He

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Correlated insulators are frequently observed in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at even fillings of electrons or holes per moir\'e unit-cell. Whereas theory predicts these insulators to be intervalley coherent excitonic phases, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Gal Shavit , Kryštof Kolář , Christophe Mora , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

We study effects of a repulsive Coulomb interaction on the spectral gap in monolayer and bilayer graphene in the vicinity of the charge neutrality point by employing the functional renormalization-group technique. In both cases Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-04-01 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

We present a simple model that we believe captures the key aspects of the competition between superconducting and insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene. Within this model, the superconducting phase is primary, and arises at generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-16 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yu-Ping Lin , Sankar Das Sarma , Rahul M. Nandkishore

The low-frequency optical excitations of AA-stacked bilayer graphene are investigated by the tight-binding model. Two groups of asymmetric LLs lead to two kinds of absorption peaks resulting from only intragroup excitations. Each absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yen-Hung Ho , Jhao-Ying Wu , Rong-Bin Chen , Yu-Huang Chiu , Ming-Fa Lin

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