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Bilayer graphene has attracted considerable interest due to the important role played by many-body effects, particularly at low energies. Here we report local compressibility measurements of a suspended graphene bilayer. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jens Martin , Benjamin E. Feldman , R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Amir Yacoby

Graphene is a gapless semiconductor in which conduction and valence band wavefunctions differ only in the phase difference between their projections onto the two sublattices of the material's two-dimensional honeycomb crystal structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang

We analyze the phase diagram of the Bilayer graphene (BLG) at zero temperature and doping. Assuming that at the high energies the electronic system of BLG can be described within a weak coupling theory (consistent with the experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-02 Y. Lemonik , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Fal'ko

Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley,…

Gated bilayer graphene exhibits spin-degenerate gapless states with a topological character localized at stacking domain walls. These states allow for one-dimensional currents along the domain walls. We herein demonstrate that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 W. Jaskólski , A. Ayuela

We study electronic, charge, and magnetic properties of twisted bilayer graphene with fillings $2\leq n\leq 6$ per moire unit cell within the recently introduced formulation of extended dynamical mean-field theory (E-DMFT) for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 A. A. Katanin

AA-stacked bilayer graphene supports Fermi circles in its bonding and antibonding bands which coincide exactly, leading to symmetry-breaking in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We analyze a continuum model of this system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Osman Ozsoy

Emergent phenomena arising from the collective behavior of electrons is generally expected when Coulomb interactions dominate over the kinetic energy, as in delocalized quasiparticles in highly degenerate flat bands. Bernal-stacked bilayer…

We apply SU(4)-symmetric model to examine possible ordered states in AB stacked bilayer graphene (AB-BLG). The Hamiltonian of the system possesses this symmetry under certain assumptions. In such a model the multicomponent order parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov

We use the DMRG to study the correlated electron states favored by the Coulomb interaction projected onto the narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene within a spinless one-valley model. The Hilbert space of the narrow bands is constructed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

Gated trilayer graphene exhibits energy gap in its most stable ABC stacking. Here we show that when the stacking order changes from ABC to CBA, three gapless states appear in each valley. The states are topologically protected and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 W. Jaskólski , G. Sarbicki

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

The lowest Landau level of bilayer graphene has an octet of internal degrees of freedom, composed from spin, valley and orbital two-level systems. Dominance of $n=0$ orbitals over $n=1$ orbitals in low energy quantum fluctuations leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Bishoy M. Kousa , Nemin Wei , Allan H. MacDonald

We investigate gated trilayer graphene partially devoid of outer layers and forming a system of two trilayers connected by a single layer of graphene. A difference in the stacking order of trilayers leads to the appearance of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the effects of disorder on bilayer graphene using four different microscopic models and directly compare their results. We compute the self-energy, density of states, and optical conductivity in the presence of short-ranged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 D. S. L. Abergel , Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The absence of an energy gap separating valence and conduction bands makes the low-energy electronic properties of graphene and its multi-layers sensitive to electron-electron interactions. In bilayers, for instance, interactions are…