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Man-made artificial graphene has attracted significant attention in the past few years due to the possibilities to construct designer Dirac fermions with unexpected topological properties and applications in nanoelectronics. Here we use a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Matti Ropo , Sami Paavilainen , Jaakko Akola , Esa Räsänen

Graphene moir\'e superlattices display electronic flat bands. At integer fillings of these flat bands, energy gaps due to strong electron-electron interactions are generally observed. However, the presence of other correlation-driven phases…

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional materials provide a versatile platform to explore strongly correlated and topological phases. This work presents a practical theoretical workflow for studying the correlated and topological states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

Recently, moir\'{e} superlattices have attracted considerable attentions because they are found to exhibit intriguing electronic phenomena of tunable Mott insulators and unconventional superconductivity. These phenomena are highly related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Henan Fang , Mingwen Xiao

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

A so-called artificial graphene is an artificial material whose low-energy carriers are described by the massless Dirac equation. Applying a periodic potential with triangular symmetry to a two-dimensional electron gas is one way to make…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Pilkwang Kim , Cheol-Hwan Park

Moir\'e superlattices formed at the interface between stacked two-dimensional atomic crystals offer limitless opportunities to design materials with widely tunable properties and engineer intriguing quantum phases of matter. However,…

Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of…

Moir\'e-pattern based potential engineering has become an important way to explore exotic physics in a variety of two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While these potentials have induced correlated phenomena in almost all commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Junxiong Hu , Ariando , Francisco Guinea , Shaffique Adam

Moire materials exhibit diverse quantum properties such as superconductivity and correlated topo logical phases, making them ideal for studying strongly correlated systems. While moire materials are typically formed by stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Depeng Ji , Qiaoling Xu , Lede Xian

In graphene moir\'e superlattices, electronic interactions between layers are mostly hidden as band structures get crowded because of folding, making their interpretation cumbersome. Here, the evolution of the electronic band structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francisco Sanchez-Ochoa , Andres Botello-Mendez , Cecilia Noguez

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

The moir\'e superstructure of graphene grown on metals can drive the assembly of molecular architectures, as iron-phthalocyanine (FePc) molecules, allowing for the production of artificial molecular configurations. A detailed analysis of…

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

In this article we develop an effective medium model to characterize the electron wave propagation in graphene based nanostructures with an electrostatic and magnetic vector potentials imposed on their surface. We use a numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 David E. Fernandes

ABC-stacked multilayer graphene (ABC-MLG) exhibits topological surface flat bands with a divergent density of states, leading to many-body instabilities at charge neutrality. Here, we explore electronic ordering within a mean-field approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-20 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Tomas Löthman , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

By merging bottom-up and top-down strategies we tailor graphene's electronic properties within nanometer accuracy, which opens up the possibility to design optical and plasmonic circuitries at will. In a first step, graphene electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 A. J. Martínez-Galera , I. Brihuega , A. Gutiérrez-Rubio , T. Stauber , J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Moir\'e superlattices that consist of two or more layers of two-dimensional materials stacked together with a small twist angle have emerged as a tunable platform to realize various correlated and topological phases, such as Mott…

The coupling of mechanical deformation and electrical stimuli at the nanoscale has been a subject of intense investigation in the realm of materials science. Recently, twisted van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a platform to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Hanhao Zhang , Yuanhao Wei , Yuhao Li , Shengsheng Lin , Jiarui Wang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jiangyu Li , Yi Shi , Xinran Wang , Yan Shi , Zaiyao Fei

Pd-metal graphite (Pd-MG) has a layered structure, where each Pd sheet is sandwiched between adjacent graphene sheets. DC magnetization and AC magnetic susceptibility of Pd-MG have been measured using a SQUID magnetometer. Pd-MG undergoes a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 Masatsugu Suzuki , Itsuko S. Suzuki , Jürgen Walter