English
Related papers

Related papers: Radiation effects on the electronic structure of b…

200 papers

In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops dynamical band gaps in its quasi-energy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator. Here we analyze how topologically protected edge states arise inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Gonzalo Usaj , P. M. Perez-Piskunow , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro

The use of Floquet theory combined with a realistic description of the electronic structure of illuminated graphene and graphene nanoribbons is developed to assess the emergence of non-adiabatic and non-perturbative effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hernan L. Calvo , Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Horacio M. Pastawski , Stephan Roche , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

Could a laser field lead to the much sought-after tunable bandgaps in graphene? By using Floquet theory combined with Green's functions techniques, we predict that a laser field in the mid-infrared range can produce observable bandgaps in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 Hernan L. Calvo , Horacio M. Pastawski , Stephan Roche , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

We describe the gated bilayer graphene system when it is subjected to intense terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation. We examine the electron band structure and density of states via exact diagonalization methods within Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

We proposed a minimal model to describe the Floquet band structure of two-dimensional materials with light-induced resonant inter-band transition. We applied it to graphene to study the band features caused by the light irradiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Mou Yang , Zhi-Jun Cai , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

We study the interplay between lateral confinement and photon-induced processes on the electronic properties of illuminated graphene nanoribbons. We find that by tuning the device setup (edges geometries, ribbon width and polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 Hernan L. Calvo , Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Stephan Roche , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

We report on the effect of laser illumination with circularly polarized light on the electronic structure of AB-stacked graphite samples. By using Floquet theory in combination with Green's function techniques, we find that the polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Hernan L. Calvo , Jose E. Barrios Vargas , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

This study explores the impact of a strong perpendicular laser field on the electronic structure and optical conductivity of bilayer graphene. Employing the Floquet-Bloch theorem and a four-band Hamiltonian model, we calculate the optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand , Reza Asgari

We investigate the topological properties of Floquet-engineered twisted bilayer graphene above the magic angle driven by circularly polarized laser pulses. Employing a full Moir\'e-unit-cell tight-binding Hamiltonian based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-30 Gabriel E. Topp , Gregor Jotzu , James W. McIver , Lede Xian , Angel Rubio , Michael A. Sentef

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

We theoretically investigated the Floquet states of bilayer graphene heterostructure under the irradiation by horizontally incident circular polarized light. The in-plane and out-of-plane electric field of the light periodically perturbs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ma Luo

We present a comprehensive study on enhancing the thermoelectric (TE) performance of bilayer graphene (BLG) through irradiation with arbitrarily polarized light, focusing on $AA$- and $AB$-stacked configurations with zigzag edges. Utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Cynthia Ihuoma Osuala , Tanu Choudhary , Raju K. Biswas , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the effects of lithium intercalation in twisted bilayers of graphene, using first-principles electronic structure calculations. To model this system we employ commensurate supercells that correspond to twist angles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Daniel T. Larson , Stephen Carr , Georgios A. Tritsaris , Efthimios Kaxiras

We propose a realistic regime to detect the light-induced topological band gap in graphene via time-resolved angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (trARPES), that can be achieved with current technology. The direct observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the presence of either skew interlayer coupling or interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Narjes Kheirabadi , Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Kin Fai Mak , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Tony F. Heinz

Response of electronic systems in intense lights (AC electric fields) to DC source-drain fields is formulated with the Floquet method. We have then applied the formalism to graphene, for which we show that a non-linear effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Oka , Hideo Aoki

The nature of electron correlations in bilayer graphene has been investigated. An analytic expression for the radial distribution function is derived for an ideal electron gas and the corresponding static structure factor is evaluated. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-18 Yantao Li , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

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
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›