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We consider the zero-filled quantum-Hall ferromagnetic state of bilayer graphene subject to a kink-like perpendicular electric field, which generates domain walls in the electronic state and low-energy collective modes confined to move…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Victoria Mazo , Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , Sam T. Carr , H. A. Fertig

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

The rich phase diagram of quantum spin-ladder systems has attracted much attention in the theoretical literature. The progress in experimental realisations of this fascinating physics however has been much slower. While materials with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Victoria Mazo , Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , Sam T. Carr , H. A. Fertig

We consider a coupled system of Dirac operators that models spin- and valley-polarized gated rhombohedral graphene (RHG) with an arbitrary number of layers. We classify all quantum anomalous Hall phases that are compatible with the model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Matthew Frazier , Guillaume Bal

Graphene-based multilayer systems serve as versatile platforms for exploring the interplay between electron correlation and topology, thanks to distinctive low-energy bands marked by significant quantum metric and Berry curvature from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-30 Niklas Witt , Siheon Ryee , Lennart Klebl , Jennifer Cano , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Tim O. Wehling

Usually the quantum spin Hall states are expected to possess gapless, helical edge modes. Are there clean, non-interacting, quantum spin Hall states without gapless, edge modes? We show the generic, $n$-fold-symmetric, momentum planes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Alexander C. Tyner , Shouvik Sur , Danilo Puggioni , James M. Rondinelli , Pallab Goswami

We discuss the quantum Hall effect of bilayer graphene with finite gate voltage where the Fermi energy exceeds the interlayer hopping energy. We calculated magnetic susceptibility, diagonal and off-diagonal conductivities in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masaaki Nakamura , Lila Hirasawa , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Gated heterostructures containing bilayer graphene with staggered sublattice potentials are investigated by tight binding model with Rashba spin-orbital coupling and Hubbard interaction. The topological phase diagrams depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ma Luo , Zhibing Li

Skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures, characterized by a topological winding number N , that occur spontaneously in some magnetic materials. Recent experiments have demonstrated the capability to grow graphene on top Fe/Ir, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

Quantum spin Hall edge transport in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides depends on whether their one-dimensional edge channels are preserved under realistic substrates and device boundaries. Here we implement spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Wei Li , Pier Philipsen , Thomas Brumme , Thomas Heine

We show that gated bilayer graphene hosts a strong topological insulator (TI) phase in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. We find that gated bilayer graphene under preserved time-reversal symmetry is a quantum valley Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-15 Zhenhua Qiao , Wang-Kong Tse , Hua Jiang , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

The most celebrated property of the quantum spin Hall effect is the presence of spin-polarized counter-propagating edge states. This novel edge state configuration has also been predicted to occur in graphene when spin-split electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Patrick Maher , Cory R. Dean , Andrea F. Young , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kenneth L. Shepard , James Hone , Philip Kim

By using the cluster perturbation theory, we investigate the effects of the local electron-phonon interaction in the quantum spin Hall topological insulator described by the half-filled Kane-Mele model on an honeycomb lattice. Starting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-07 L. M. Cangemi , A. S. Mishchenko , N. Nagaosa , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis

The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Pavel Tikhonov , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

We report an intriguing transition from the quantum spin Hall phase to the spin Hall effect upon segregation of thallium adatoms adsorbed onto a graphene surface. Landauer-B\"uttiker and Kubo-Greenwood simulations are used to access both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Alessandro Cresti , Dinh Van Tuan , David Soriano , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

The edges of graphene and graphene like systems can host localized states with evanescent wave function with properties radically different from those of the Dirac electrons in bulk. This happens in a variety of situations, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 J. L. Lado , N. Garcia-Martinez , J. Fernandez-Rossier

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

Bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a rich platform for broken symmetry states stabilized by interactions. In this work we study the phase diagram of BLG in the quantum Hall regime at filling factor $\nu=0$ within the Hartree-Fock approximation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Ganpathy Murthy , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert Fertig