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Nanoscale twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is quite instable and will change its structure to Bernal (or AB-stacking) bilayer with a much lower energy. Therefore, the lack of nanoscale TBG makes its electronic properties not accessible in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Wen-Xiao Wang , Hua Jiang , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Haiwen Liu , Xinqi Li , Xiaosong Wu , Lin He

We theoretically study the optical activity in a doped system and derive the optical activity tensor from a light wavevector-dependent linear optical conductivity. Although the light-matter interaction is introduced through the velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 K. Chang , Z. Zheng , J. E. Sipe , J. L. Cheng

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

We theoretically study dynamical excitonic condensates occurring in bilayers with an imposed chemical potential difference and in photodoped semiconductors. We show that optical spectroscopy can experimentally identify phase-trapped and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Alexander Osterkorn , Yuta Murakami , Tatsuya Kaneko , Zhiyuan Sun , Andrew J. Millis , Denis Golež

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

A basis is derived from elastic plate theory that quantifies equilibrium and dynamic deformation and electron diffraction patterns of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). The basis is derived by solving in-plane and out-of-plane normal modes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Moon-ki Choi , Suk Hyun Sung , Robert Hovden , Ellad B. Tadmor

Twisted van der Waals materials provide a tunable platform for investigating two-dimensional superconductivity and quantum phases. Using spectra-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy, we study the superconducting states in twisted bilayer…

We investigate the absorption properties of graphene-based anisotropic metamaterial structures where the metamaterial layer possesses an electromagnetic response corresponding to a near-zero permittivity. We find that through analytical and…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-25 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

Two-dimensional materials are expected to play an important role in next-generation electronics and optoelectronic devices. Recently, twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted significant attention due to…

Theory of optical absorption of linearly and circularly polarized light in surface and edge states in topological insulators is developed for a nonlinear in light intensity regime. The absorbance for surface states and the absorption width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub

We report high magnetic field scanning tunneling microscopy and Landau level spectroscopy of twisted graphene layers grown by chemical vapor deposition. For twist angles exceeding ~3 degrees the low energy carriers exhibit Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 A. Luican , Guohong Li , A. Reina , J. Kong , R. R. Nair , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , E. Y. Andrei

We consider Friedel oscillation in the two-dimensional Dirac materials when Fermi level is near the van Hove singularity. Twisted graphene bilayer and the surface state of topological crystalline insulator are the representative materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 Chi-Ken Lu

We investigate imaging of moire structures in free-standing twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) carried out by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in diffraction and in-line Gabor holography modes. Electron diffraction patterns of TBG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

We perform linear and non-linear photon absorption calculations in topological insulator ultra-thin films on a substrate. Due to the unique band structure of the coupled topological surface states, novel features are observed for suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Jing Wang , Hideo Mabuchi , Xiao-Liang Qi

We report the experimental observation of sublattice-resolved resonant scattering in bilayer graphene by performing simultaneous cryogenic atomic hydrogen doping and electron transport measurements in ultrahigh vacuum. This allows us to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Jyoti Katoch , Tiancong Zhu , Denis Kochan , Simranjeet Singh , Jaroslav Fabian , Roland K. Kawakami

The recent demonstration of saturable absorption and negative optical conductivity in the Terahertz range in graphene has opened up new opportunities for optoelectronic applications based on this and other low dimensional materials.…

A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near magic twist angles. In this work, the authors develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shivesh Pathak , Tawfiqur Rakib , Run Hou , Andriy Nevidomskyy , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits electronic properties that are highly correlated with the size and arrangement of moir\'e patterns. While rigid rotation of two layers creates the topology of moir\'e patterns, local rearrangements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aditya Dey , Shoieb Ahmed Chowdhury , Tara Peña , Sobhit Singh , Stephen M. Wu , Hesam Askari

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) represents a family of unique materials with optoelectronic properties tuned by the rotation angle between the two layers. The presented work shows an additional way of tweaking the electronic structure of…

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea