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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

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Double layer graphene is a gapless semiconductor which develops a finite gap when the layers are placed at different electrostatic potentials. We study, within the tight-biding approximation, the electronic properties of the gaped graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

The electronic bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) with a large-period moir\'e superlattice fracture to form narrow Bloch minibands that are spectrally isolated by forbidden energy gaps from remote dispersive bands. When these gaps are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

In a magnetic field bilayer graphene supports an octet of zero-energy Landau levels with an extra twofold degeneracy in Landau orbitals n=0 and n=1. It is shown that this orbital degeneracy is lifted due to Coulombic quantum fluctuations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 K. Shizuya

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene under pressure develops very interesting features with an enhancement of the trigonal warping and a splitting of the parabolic touching bands at the K point of the reciprocal space into four…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 F Munoz , H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , Jorge O. Sofo , C. A. Balseiro

Since the lattices of ABA-stacked graphene multilayers with an even number of layers, as well as that of monolayer graphene, satisfy spatial-inversion symmetry, their electronic bands must be spin degenerate in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

The low energy electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are studied using a long wavelength theory applicable to general commensurate fault angles. Lattice commensuration requires low energy electronic coherence across a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. J. Mele

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

In the context of the low energy effective theory, the exact Landau level spectrum of quasiparticles in twisted bilayer graphene with small twist angle is analytically obtained by spheroidal eigenvalues. We analyze the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Min-Young Choi , Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim

Graphene features topological edge bands that connect the pair of Dirac points through either sectors of the 1D Brillouin zone depending on edge configurations (zigzag or bearded). Because of their flat dispersion, spontaneous edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Tixuan Tan , Fengren Fan , Ci Li , Wang Yao

Experiments on bilayer graphene unveiled a fascinating realization of stacking disorder where triangular domains with well-defined Bernal stacking are delimited by a hexagonal network of strain solitons. Here we show by means of numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

Minimally twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of an interlayer bias develops a triangular network of valley chiral modes that propagate along the $AB/BA$ interfaces and scatter at the $AA$ regions. The low energy physics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , C. De Beule , P. Recher