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We consider the effect of bending-strain in thin films of clean, conventional superconductors (S), and the proximity-induced effect of this strain in SN bilayers with a normal metal (N), and SNS junctions with equal curvatures in each…

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We investigate transport properties through a rectangular potential barrier in AB-stacked bilayer graphene (AB-BLG) gapped by dielectric layers. Using the Dirac-like Hamiltonian with a transfer matrix approach we obtain transmission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

Low-energy excitations in graphene exhibit relativistic properties due to the linear dispersion relation close to the Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone. Two of the Dirac points located at opposite corners of the first Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 T. Sekera , C. Bruder , E. J. Mele , R. P. Tiwari

Graphene features topological edge bands that connect the pair of Dirac points through either sectors of the 1D Brillouin zone depending on edge configurations (zigzag or bearded). Because of their flat dispersion, spontaneous edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Tixuan Tan , Fengren Fan , Ci Li , Wang Yao

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Multiple experiments have observed a sharp transition in the band structure of LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interfaces as a function of applied gate voltage. This Lifshitz transition, between a single occupied band at low electron density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Amany Raslan , W. A. Atkinson

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

Inversion asymmetry in bilayer graphene can be tuned by the displacement field. As a result, the band dispersion in biased bilayer graphene acquires flat band regions near the Dirac points along with a non-trivial band geometry. We analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Xiang Hu , Enrico Rossi , Yafis Barlas

The transport properties of a bilayer graphene are studied theoretically within a self-consistent Born approximation. The electronic spectrum is composed of $k$-linear dispersion in the low-energy region and $k$-square dispersion as in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We study the interplay of Klein tunneling (= interband tunneling) between n-doped and p-doped regions in graphene and Andreev reflection (= electron-hole conversion) at a superconducting electrode. The tunneling conductance of an n-p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-10 A. Ossipov , M. Titov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find that the thermoelectric transport has similar properties as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Ma , L. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N Sheng

We study ballistic transport in bilayer graphene junctions and show how electrostatic gating, interlayer bias, and homogeneous strain provide complementary control over electron transmission. In the absence of strain, transport is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

We show that the strong coupling of pseudospin orientation and charge carrier motion in bilayer graphene has a drastic effect on transport properties of ballistic p-n-p junctions. Electronic states with zero momentum parallel to the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Nan Gu , Mark Rudner , Leonid Levitov

Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vahid Derakhshan , Hosein Cheraghchi

We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Fermi surface topology plays an important role in determining the electronic properties of metals. In bulk metals, the Fermi energy is not easily tunable at the energy scale needed for reaching conditions for the Lifshitz transition - a…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is a tunable material with remarkably flat energy bands near the Fermi level, leading to fascinating transport properties and correlated states at low temperatures. However, grown pristine samples of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau