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We implement a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation based on a microscopic model in real space, which allows us to consider the interplay between the Hubbard and the extended Coulomb interaction in twisted bilayer graphene at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber

Recent experiments on graphene multilayers under displacement field have demonstrated a wide variety of electronically ordered phases, including valley and/or spin polarized phases as well as potentially unconventional superconducting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 R. David Mayrhofer , Andrey V. Chubukov

Graphene-based superlattices offer a new materials playground to exploit and control a higher number of electronic degrees of freedom, such as charge, spin, or valley for disruptive technologies. Recently, orbital effects, emerging in…

The quest for unconventional superconductivity governed by Coulomb repulsion between electrons rather than phonon attraction received new momentum with the advent of moir\'e graphene. Initially, delineating the phonon and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhiyu Dong , Andrey V. Chubukov , Leonid Levitov

We investigate spin effects in transport across fully interacting, finite size graphene armchair nanoribbons (ACNs) contacted to collinearly spin-polarized leads. In such systems, the presence of short ranged Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 Sonja Koller , Leonhard Mayrhofer , Milena Grifoni

Effects of the nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction on nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges are investigated using the extended Hubbard model within the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation. The nearest Coulomb interaction stabilizes a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Yamashiro , Yukihiro Shimoi , Kikuo Harigaya , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We demonstrate that in the presence of Coulomb interactions, electrons in graphene behave like a critical system, supporting power law correlations with interaction-dependent exponents. An asymptotic analysis shows that the origin of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-04 Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

In strongly correlated electronic systems, Coulomb interactions frequently manifest through emergent electronic orders that spontaneously break rotational symmetry. Understanding how such symmetry breaking intertwines with other collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Peiyu Qin , Hai-Tian Wu , Ron Q. Nguyen , Erin Morissette , Naiyuan J. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We present a microscopic theory for interacting graphene armchair nanoribbon quantum dots. Long range interaction processes are responsible for Coulomb blockade and spin-charge separation. Short range ones, arising from the underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 Sonja Koller , Leonhard Mayrhofer , Milena Grifoni

The magnetoplasmon spectrum of Landau level transitions in hexagonal boron nitride-encapsulated graphene is explored via infrared transmission magnetospectroscopy, as a function of the filling factor at fixed magnetic field. As the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Jordan Pack , B. Jordan Russell , Yashika Kapoor , Jesse Balgley , Jeff Ahlers , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Erik A. Henriksen

Flat band moir\'e graphene systems have emerged as a quintessential platform to investigate correlated phases of matter. A plethora of interaction-driven ground states have been proposed, and yet despite extensive experimental effort, there…

Valley-polarized quantum Hall states in graphene are described by a Heisenberg O(3) ferromagnet model, with the ordering type controlled by the strength and sign of valley anisotropy. A mechanism resulting from electron coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

We investigate interaction-induced valley domain walls in bilayer graphene in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state, subject to a perpendicular electric field that is antisymmetric across a line in the sample. Such a state can be realized in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-10 Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig

A possible ground state of NaV_2O_5 is proposed based on the Hartree approximation for both on-site and intersite Coulomb interactions. The results indicate that the intersite Coulomb interaction induces a zigzag type of charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Hitoshi Seo , Hidetoshi Fukuyama

When a crystal is subjected to a periodic potential, under certain circumstances (such as when the period of the potential is close to the crystal periodicity; the potential is strong enough, etc.) it might adjust itself to follow the…

The magnetism by the edge states in graphene is investigated theoretically. An instability of the pseudo-spin order of the edge states induces ferrimagnetic order in the presence of the Coulomb interaction. Although the next…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-28 Ken-ichi Sasaki , Riichiro Saito

We argue that the unscreened Coulomb interaction in graphene provides a positive, universal, and logarithmic correction to scaling of zero-temperature conductivity with frequency. The combined effect of the disorder due to wrinkling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek

We study the effects that ripples induce on the electrical and magnetic properties of graphene. The variation of the interatomic distance created by the ripples translates in a modulation of the hopping parameter between carbon atoms. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 M. Pilar López-Sancho , Luis Brey

We show that the emergent relativistic symmetry of electrons in graphene near its quantum critical point (QCP) implies a crucial importance of the Coulomb interaction. We derive scaling laws, valid near the QCP, that dictate the nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel E. Sheehy , Joerg Schmalian