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Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

We report on a theoretical study of one-dimensional (1D) states localized at few-layer graphene system ribbon edges, and at interfaces between few-layer graphene systems with different valley Hall conductivities. These 1D states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang , Zhenhua Qiao , Allan H. MacDonald

The development of valleytronics demands long-range electronic transport with preserved valley index, a degree of freedom similar to electron spin. A promising structure for this end is a topological one-dimensional (1D) channel formed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 E. Mania , A. R. Cadore , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. C. Campos

The AB-BA domain wall in gapped graphene bilayers is a rare naked structure hosting topological electronic states. Here we show, for the first time, direct imaging of its topological edge states by using scanning tunneling microscope. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Long-Jing Yin , Hua Jiang , Jia-Bin Qiao , Lin He

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

Bilayer graphene (BLG) possesses a finite bandgap when a potential difference is introduced between the two graphene layers. The potential difference is known to be introduced by surface charge transfer. Thus, it is expected that a finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 Ryo Nouchi

Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized along the difference's zero-lines. When disorder is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Zhenhua Qiao , Jeil Jung , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

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 investigate interaction-induced valley domain walls in bilayer graphene in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state, subject to a perpendicular electric field that is antisymmetric across a line in the sample. Such a state can be realized in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-10 Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig

At the interface of electrostatic potential kink profiles one dimensional chiral states are found in bilayer graphene (BLG). Such structures can be created by applying an asymmetric potential to the upper and the lower layer of BLG. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Zarenia , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

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

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

Pristine bilayer graphene behaves in some instances as an insulator with a transport gap of a few meV. This behaviour has been interpreted as the result of an intrinsic electronic instability induced by many-body correlations. Intriguingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 P. San-Jose , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov , F. Guinea

Atomically thin materials offer multiple opportunities for layer-by-layer control of their electronic properties. While monolayer graphene (MLG) is a zero-gap system, Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) acquires a finite band gap when the…

We investigate the electronic confinement in bilayer graphene by topological loops of different shapes. These loops are created by lateral gates acting via gap inversion on the two graphene sheets. For large-area loops the spectrum is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

The electronic properties of graphene superlattices have attracted intense interest that was further stimulated by the recent observation of novel many-body states at "magic" angles in twisted bilayer graphene (BLG). For very small…

The discovery of Mott insulators and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene has ignited intensive research into strong correlation effects in other stacking geometries. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG), when subjected to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Alex Friedlan , Heqiu Li , Hae-Young Kee

The edge states in the hybrid system of single-layer and double-layer graphene are studied in the tight-binding model theoretically. The edge states in one side of the interface between single-layer and double-layer graphene are shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Yasumasa Hasegawa , Mahito Kohmoto

We report on finite bias spectroscopy measurements of the two-electron spectrum in a gate defined bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum dot for varying magnetic fields. The spin and valley degree of freedom in BLG give rise to multiplets of 6…

Moire materials like twisted bilayer graphene have emerged as a rich playground of strongly correlated physics, where the effect of interactions can be drastically enhanced by tuning the non-interacting density of states via twist angle. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-26 Tamaghna Hazra