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In this paper we consider the possibility of chiral (charge or spin density wave) symmetry breaking in graphene due to long-range Coulomb interaction by comparing the results of the Bethe-Salpeter and functional renormalization-group…

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We formulate and solve the perhaps simplest two-body bound state problem for interacting Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions. A two-body bound state is predicted for gapped graphene monolayers in the presence of weakly repulsive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. De Martino , R. Egger

Recent experiments indicate that crystalline graphene multilayers exhibit much of the richness of their twisted counterparts, including cascades of symmetry-broken states and unconventional superconductivity. Interfacing Bernal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Jin Ming Koh , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

We show that in a two-dimensional electron gas with an annular Fermi surface, long-range Coulomb interactions can lead to unconventional superconductivity by the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. Superconductivity is strongly enhanced when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-15 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Maksym Serbyn , Erez Berg

Whether spin-independent Coulomb interaction in an electron system can be the origin of ferromagnetism has been an open problem for a long time. Recently, a "constructive" approach to this problem has been developed, and the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-11 Hal Tasaki

We study ferromagnetism and its stability in twisted bilayer graphene. We work with a Hubbard-like interaction that corresponds to the screened Coulomb interaction in a well-defined limit where the Thomas-Fermi screening length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yahya Alavirad , Jay D. Sau

Coulomb interaction is of central importance in localized energy levels (bound states) or electronic flat bands and could result in many exotic quantum phases, such as magnetic, superconducting, and topological phases in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Zhong-Qiu Fu , Ke-Ke Bai , Ya-Ning Ren , Jiao-Jiao Zhou , Lin He

Role of chiral symmetry in many-body states of graphene in strong magnetic fields is theoretically studied with the honeycomb lattice model. For a spin-split Landau level where the leading electron-electron interaction is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuji Hamamoto , Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We report on our studies of interacting electrons in bilayer graphene in a magnetic field. We demonstrate that the long range Coulomb interactions between electrons in this material are highly important. We show that in the unbiased bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

The nematic phase transition in electronic liquids, driven by Coulomb interactions, represents a new class of strongly correlated electronic ground states. We studied suspended samples of bilayer graphene, annealed so that it achieves very…

We use a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation with realistic Coulomb interactions for $\pi$-band electrons to explore the possibility of broken symmetry states in weakly disordered ABC stacked trilayer graphene. The competition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Jeil Jung , Allan H. MacDonald

The electronic energy spectrum of graphene electron subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field in the presence of a charged Coulomb impurity is studied analytically within two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl picture by using variational approach. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

We extend previous analyses of fermions on a honeycomb bilayer lattice via weak-coupling renormalization group (RG) methods with extremely short-range and extremely long-range interactions to the case of finite-range interactions. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-04 Robert E. Throckmorton , Oskar Vafek

Using exact quantum Monte Carlo method, we examine the recent novel electronic states seen in magic-angle graphene superlattices. From the Hubbard model on a double-layer honeycomb lattice with a rotation angle $\theta=1.08^{\circ}$, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-07 Tongyun Huang , Lufeng Zhang , Tianxing Ma

We revisit the localized Wannier state description of the twisted bilayer graphene, focusing on the chiral limit. We provide a simple method for constructing such 2D exponentially localized -- yet valley polarized -- Wannier states,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-02 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang

In the low-energy two-band as well as four-band continuum models, we study the supercritical instability in gapped bilayer graphene in the field of a charged impurity. It is found that the screening effects are crucially important in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 D. O. Oriekhov , O. O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We use the Gutzwiller method to investigate the importance of the on-site Coulomb interaction in graphene. We apply it to Hubbard Hamiltonian to study the renormalization of the kinetic energy in graphene due to the on-site Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-12-19 Hari P. Dahal , Jean-Pierre Julien , A. V. Balatsky

Motivated by the physics of graphene, we consider a model of N species of 2+1 dimensional four-component massless Dirac fermions interacting through a 3D instantaneous Coulomb interaction. We show that in the limit of infinitely strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-07-11 D. T. Son

Graphene is described at low-energy by a massless Dirac equation whose eigenstates have definite chirality. We show that the tendency of Coulomb interactions in lightly doped graphene to favor states with larger net chirality leads to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-06-13 Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent observation of the strong coupling of electrons to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran