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A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

Most studies on moir\'e superlattices formed from a stack of h-BN and graphene have focused on single layer graphene; graphene with multiple layers is less understood. Here, we show that a moir\'e superlattice of multilayer graphene shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Fumiya Mukai , Kota Horii , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

The application of the chiral decomposition procedure to hybrid graphene h-BN systems revealed rules for the partition of the system into effective subsystems being bilayers plus monolayer in case the number of layers is odd. Three types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Molenda , P. Maślanka , I. Zasada

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

It is well established that some kinds of lattice deformations in graphene monolayer, which change electron hopping in sublattice and affect in-plane motion of electrons, may induce out-of-plane pseudo-magnetic fields as large as 100 T.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Wen-Yu He , Ying Su , Mudan Yang , Lin He

In this Letter, we present experimental findings on electron-electron scattering in a two-dimensional moir'e heterostructure with tunable Fermi wave vector, reciprocal lattice vector, and band gap. We achieve this in high-mobility aligned…

The flat bands resulting from moir\'e superlattices in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) and ABC-trilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (ABC-TLG/hBN) have been shown to give rise to fascinating correlated electron…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TwBLG) is one of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures, yet it yields a complex electronic system with intricate interplay between moir\'{e} physics and interlayer hybridization effects. We report on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Y. Cao , J. Y. Luo , V. Fatemi , S. Fang , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , E. Kaxiras , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Interfacial interactions in two parallel-stacked hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) layers facilitate sliding ferroelectricity, enabling novel device functionalities. Additionally, when Bernal or twisted bilayer graphene is aligned with an hBN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Tianyu Zhang , Yueyang Wang , Hongxia Xue , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dong-Keun Ki

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We model optical absorption of monolayer and bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride for the case of closely-aligned crystal lattices. We show that perturbations with different spatial symmetry can lead to similar absorption spectra. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 D. S. L. Abergel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski

Graphene multilayers exhibit electronic spectra that depend sensitively on both the number of layers and their stacking order. Beyond trilayer graphene, mixed stacking sequences (alternating Bernal and rhombohedral layers) give rise to…

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…

We describe the electronic conductivity, as a function of the Fermi energy, in the Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) in presence of a random distribution of vacancies that simulate resonant adsorbates. We compare it to monolayer (MLG) with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ahmed Missaoui , Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Nejm-Eddine Jaidane , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We find a systematic reappearance of massive Dirac features at the edges of consecutive minibands formed at magnetic fields B_{p/q}= p\phi_0/(qS) providing rational magnetic flux through a unit cell of the moire superlattice created by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xi Chen , J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

Superlattice potentials are theoretically predicted to modify the single-particle electronic structures. The resulting Coulomb-interaction-dominated low-energy physics would generate highly novel many-body phenomena. Here, by in situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Chaofei Liu , Jian Wang

The superlattice obtained by aligning a monolayer graphene and boron nitride (BN) inherits from the hexagonal lattice a sixty degrees periodicity with the layer alignment. It implies that, in principle, the properties of the heterostructure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 E. Arrighi , V. -H. Nguyen , M. Di Luca , G. Maffione , Y. Hong , L. Farrar , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Mailly , J. -C. Charlier , R. Ribeiro-Palau

Spontaneous orbital magnetism observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) on nearly aligned hexagonal boron nitride (BN) substrate builds on top of the electronic structure resulting from combined G/G and G/BN double moire interfaces. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jiseon Shin , Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

The effect of an hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer close aligned with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is studied. At sufficiently low angles between twisted bilayer graphene and hBN, $\theta_{hBN} \lesssim 2^\circ$, the graphene electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

The emerging interest in van der Waals heterostructures as new materials for opto-electronics and photonics poses questions about their stability and structure-property relations. In the framework of density-functional and many-body…