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Domain walls separating regions of AB and BA interlayer stacking in bilayer graphene have attracted attention as novel examples of structural solitons, topological electronic boundaries, and nanoscale plasmonic scatterers. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guang-Xin Ni , Zachariah Addison , Jing K. Shi , Xiaomeng Liu , Frank Zhao , P. Kim , E. J. Mele , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We theoretically demonstrate that a system formed by two coupled graphene sheets enables a negative damping regime wherein graphene plasmons are pumped by a DC current. This effect is triggered by electrons drifting through one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Recently, there has been plenty of work in designing and fabricating materials with an effective negative refractive index. Veselago realized that a slab of material with a refractive index of -1 would act as a lens. Pendry suggested that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-11 David C. Dobson , Lyubima B. Simeonova

Drawing inspiration from bilayer graphene, this paper introduces its photonic analog comprising two stacked graphene-like photonic crystals, that are coupled in the near-field through spoof surface plasmons. Beyond the twist degree of…

We study the effects of long and short-range electron-electron interactions in a graphene bilayer. Using a variational wavefunction technique we show that in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions the clean bilayer is always…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

We address the intrinsic polarisation and screening of external electric field in a broad range of ordered and twisted configurations of multilayer graphene, using an ab initio approach combining density functional theory and the Wannier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Nikita V. Tepliakov , QuanSheng Wu , Oleg V. Yazyev

Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are extraordinarily sensitive to carrier density and to controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Eva Y. Andrei , Allan H. MacDonald

The electron gas hosted in a two-dimensional solid-state matrix, such as a quantum well or a two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure, supports the propagation of plasma waves. Nonlinear interactions between plasma waves, due to charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Andrea Tomadin , Matteo Carrega , Marco Polini

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

Recently the small-twist-angle (< 2{\deg}) bilayer graphene has received extraordinary attentions due to its exciting physical properties. Compared with monolayer graphene, the Brillouin zone folding in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Bingchen Deng , Chao Ma , Qiyue Wang , Shaofan Yuan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fan Zhang , Fengnian Xia

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

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

It is shown that one can explore the optical conductivity of graphene, together with the ability of controlling its electronic density by an applied gate voltage, in order to achieve resonant coupling between an external electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Van der Waals heteroepitaxy allows deterministic control over lattice mismatch or azimuthal orientation between atomic layers to produce long wavelength superlattices. The resulting electronic phases depend critically on the superlattice…

Veselago lens focusing in graphene p-n junction is promising for realizations of new generation electron optics devices. However, the effect of the strain-induced Aharonov-Bohm interference in a p-n junction has not been discussed before.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sanjay Prabhakar , Rabindra Nepal , Roderick Melnik , Alexey A. Kovalev

We investigate the charge carrier dynamics in bilayer graphene subject to monochromatic laser irradiation within the Landau level quantization regime. Even though the radiation field does not lift the energy degeneracy of the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Alexander López , Bertrand Berche , John Schliemann , Francisco Mireles , Benjamin Santos

Ferroelectricity (Valasek, J. Phys. Rev. 1921, 17, 475) - a spontaneous formation of electric polarisation - is a solid state phenomenon, usually, associated with ionic compounds or complex materials. Here we show that, atypically for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Vladimir Enaldiev , Andrew McEllistrim , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Electrons transmitted across a ballistic semiconductor junction undergo refraction, analogous to light rays across an optical boundary. A pn junction theoretically provides the equivalent of a negative index medium, enabling novel electron…

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue