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The electronic spectrum of three coupled graphene layers (graphene trilayers) is investigated in the presence of an external magnetic field. We obtain analytical expressions for the Landau level spectrum for both the ABA and ABC - type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-06 J. M. Pereira , S. H. R. Sena , F. M. Peeters , G. A. Farias

The magneto-optical spectra of ABC-stacked trilayer graphene are enriched by the electric field. A lot of prominent absorption peaks, which arise from the inter- Lnadau-level transitions, gradually change from the twin-peak structures into…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Lin Yi-Ping , Lin Chiun-Yan , Lin Min-Fa

We investigate the interplay of in-plane magnetic and transverse electric fields in AB-stacked bilayer graphene. In prior work, we demonstrated that this configuration induces an insulator-metal (IM) transition with large impact on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Amarnath Chakraborty , Aleksandr Rodin , Shaffique Adam , Giovanni Vignale

Tight-binding model of the AA-stacked bilayer graphene with screened electron-electron interactions has been studied using the Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations on the original double-layer hexagonal lattice. Instantaneous screened Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-05 A. A. Nikolaev , M. V. Ulybyshev

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene under pressure develops very interesting features with an enhancement of the trigonal warping and a splitting of the parabolic touching bands at the K point of the reciprocal space into four…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 F Munoz , H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , Jorge O. Sofo , C. A. Balseiro

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We investigate the electronic band structure and the proximity exchange effect in bilayer graphene on a family of ferromagnetic multilayers Cr$_2$X$_2$Te$_6$, X=Ge, Si, and Sn, with first principles methods. In each case the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We present measurements of the electronic compressibility, $K$, of bilayer graphene in both zero and finite magnetic fields up to 14 T, and as a function of both the carrier density and electric field perpendicular to the graphene sheet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 E. A. Henriksen , J. P. Eisenstein

A perpendicular electric field breaks the layer symmetry of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene, resulting in the opening of a band gap and a modification of the effective mass of the charge carriers. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and…

We investigate the energy bands, magnetism, and superconductivity of bilayer octagraphene with A-A stacking under a perpendicular electric field. A tight-binding model is used to analyze the band structure of the system. The doubling of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-04 Yitong Yao , Jun Li , Jiacheng Ye , Fan Yang , Dao-Xin Yao

The stacking order degree of freedom in trilayer graphene plays a critical role in determining the existence of an electric field tunable band gap. We present spatially-resolved tunneling spectroscopy measurements of dual gated Bernal (ABA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Matthew Yankowitz , Fenglin Wang , Chun Ning Lau , Brian J. LeRoy

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides a fascinating platform for engineering flat bands and inducing correlated phenomena. By designing the stacking architecture of graphene layers, twisted multilayer graphene can exhibit different…

Proximity effects resulting from depositing a graphene layer on a TMD substrate layer change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects. An effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

The stacking faults (deviates from Bernal) will break the translational symmetry of multilayer graphenes and modify their electronic and optical behaviors to the extent depending on the interlayer coupling strength. This paper addresses the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Yingying Wang , Zhe Zheng , Lain-Jong Li , Ting Yu , Zexiang Shen

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

It is a fundamental paradigm that the physical effects induced by electric fields are qualitatively different from those induced by magnetic fields. Here we show that electrons at a Dirac point in bilayer graphene experience an unusual type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 R. Winkler , U. Zuelicke

We investigate the effects of lithium intercalation in twisted bilayers of graphene, using first-principles electronic structure calculations. To model this system we employ commensurate supercells that correspond to twist angles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Daniel T. Larson , Stephen Carr , Georgios A. Tritsaris , Efthimios Kaxiras

We have performed electronic-structure and lattice-dynamics calculations on the AB and AA structures of bilayer graphene. We study the effect of external electric fields and compare results obtained with different levels of theory to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-19 E. Lora da Silva , M. C. Santos , J. M. Skelton , Tao Yang , T. Santos , S. C. Parker , A. Walsh