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Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

A so-called artificial graphene is an artificial material whose low-energy carriers are described by the massless Dirac equation. Applying a periodic potential with triangular symmetry to a two-dimensional electron gas is one way to make…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Pilkwang Kim , Cheol-Hwan Park

In this paper the results of numerical simulation of monolayer graphene in external magnetic field are presented. The numerical simulation is performed in the effective lattice field theory with noncompact $3 + 1$-dimensional Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-06-13 D. L. Boyda , V. V. Braguta , S. N. Valgushev , M. I. Polikarpov , M. V. Ulybyshev

The ability to perform first-principles calculations of electronic and vibrational properties of two-dimensional heterostructures in a field-effect setup is crucial for the understanding and design of next-generation devices. We present…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Thibault Sohier , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian describing massive chiral quasiparticles in two parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

We propose a method to realize a broad class of tunable fermionic Hamiltonians in graphene bilayer. For that matter, we consider graphene bilayer functionalized with sp$^3$ defects that induce zero energy resonances hosting an individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 N. A. García-Martínez , J. Fernández-Rossier

We study the effect of vertical electric field (E-field) on the electronic properties of multilayer graphene. We show that the effective mass, electron velocity and density-of-state of a bilayer graphene are modified under the E-field. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 S. Bala kumar , Jing Guo

The tight-binding model of electrons in graphene is reviewed. We derive low-energy Hamiltonians supporting massless Dirac-like chiral fermions and massive chiral fermions in monolayer and bilayer graphene, respectively, and we describe how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edward McCann

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

Any departure from graphene's flatness leads to the emergence of artificial gauge fields that act on the motion of the Dirac fermions through an associated pseudomagnetic field. Here, we demonstrate the tunability of strong gauge fields in…

We revise the tight binding approach to strained or curved graphene in the presence of external probes such as Photoemission or Scanning Tunneling Microscopy experiments. We show that extra terms arise in the continuum limit of the tight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fernando de Juan , Juan L. Mañes , María A. H. Vozmediano

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

One of the most interesting aspects of graphene is the tied relation between structural and electronic properties. The observation of ripples in the graphene samples both free standing and on a substrate has given rise to a very active…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-22 Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano , Andrés Cano

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

The combination of Dirac physics and elasticity has been explored at length in graphene where the so--called "elastic gauge fields" have given rise to an entire new field of research and applications: Straintronics. The fact that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Alberto Cortijo , Yago Ferreirós , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

The effect of a varying pseudo-magnetic field, which falls as $1/x^2$, on a two dimensional electron gas in graphene is investigated. By considering the second order Dirac equation, we show that its correct general solution is that which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 L. G. da Silva Leite , D. Cogollo , C. Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

The mechanical and electronic properties of a graphene membrane placed on top of a superlattice of nanopillars are investigated. We use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to access the deformation fields and the tight-binding approaches to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. P. Milovanovic , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

To construct Lagrangian based on plate theory and tight-binding model, deflection-field coupling to Dirac fermions in graphene can be investigated. As have been known, deflection-induced strain may cause an effect on the motion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Bumned Soodchomshom

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