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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

We show that the manifestation of quantum interference in graphene is very different from that in conventional two-dimensional systems. Due to the chiral nature of charge carriers, it is sensitive not only to inelastic, phase-breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-09 F. V. Tikhonenko , D. W. Horsell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Savchenko

Application of a displacement field opens a gap and enhances the Van-Hove singularities in the band structure of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. By adjusting the carrier density so that the Fermi energy lies in the vicinity of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

The competition between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy in correlated systems can allow electrons to crystallize into Wigner solids. Despite researches across diverse two-dimensional Wigner platforms, the microscopic melting processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chaofei Liu , Jianwang Zhou , Wenao Liao , Zeyu Jiang , Chao Zhang , Tingfei Guo , Tianyou Zhai , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu , Qi-Kun Xue

Statistical distribution of energy levels for Dirac fermions confined in a quantum dot is studied numerically on the examples of triangular and hexagonal graphene flakes with random electrostatic potential landscape. When increasing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Adam Rycerz

The phase diagram of a system of electrons hopping on a square lattice and interacting through long-range Coulomb forces is studied as a function of density and interaction strength. The presence of a lattice strongly enhances the stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Baeriswyl , S. Fratini

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea

Electrons and holes in clean, charge-neutral graphene behave like a strongly coupled relativistic liquid. The thermo-electric transport properties of the interacting Dirac quasiparticles are rather special, being constrained by an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian

We report the first experimental observation of a characteristic nonlinear threshold behavior from dc dynamical response as an evidence for a Wigner crystallization in high-purity GaAs 2D hole systems in zero magnetic field. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study the quantum many-body ground states of electrons on the half-filled honeycomb lattice with short- and long-ranged density-density interactions as a model for graphene. To this end, we employ the recently developed truncated-unity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 David Sánchez de la Peña , Julian Lichtenstein , Carsten Honerkamp , Michael M. Scherer

We have investigated the Coulomb screening properties and collective excitations in a graphene bilayer. The static screening effect is anisotropic and is much stronger in the undoped graphene bilayer than in a monolayer graphene [1]. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

A one--dimensional gas of electrons interacting with long--range Coulomb forces ($V(r) \approx 1/r$) is investigated. The excitation spectrum consists of separate collective charge and spin modes, with the charge excitation energies in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 H. J. Schulz

The electromagnetic response of graphene in a magnetic field is studied, with particular emphasis on the quantum features of its ground state (vacuum). The graphene vacuum, unlike in conventional quantum Hall systems, is a dielectric medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shizuya

In Bernal bilayer graphene (BBG), a perpendicular displacement field flattens the bottom of the conduction band and thereby facilitates the formation of strongly-correlated electron states at low electron density. Here, we focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-13 Sandeep Joy , Brian Skinner

In this work we investigate the confining properties of charged particles of a Dirac material in the plane subject to an electrostatic potential well, that is, in an electric quantum dot. Our study focuses on the effect of mass and angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 S. Kuru , J. Negro , L. M. Nieto , L. Sourrouille

We study the interaction of electrons in graphene with the quantized electromagnetic field in the presence of an applied uniform electric field using the Dirac model of graphene. Electronic states are represented by exact solutions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Yokomizo

Insights into the fundamental properties of graphene's Dirac-Weyl fermions have emerged from studies of electron tunnelling transistors in which an atomically thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is sandwiched between two layers of…

First-principles density functional calculations for graphene and defected graphene are used to examine when the quasi-2D electrons near the Fermi energy in graphene could be represented by massless fermions obeying a Dirac-Weyl (DW)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-06 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Many-body interactions in crystalline solids can be conveniently described in terms of quasiparticles with strongly renormalized masses as compared to those of non-interacting particles. Examples of extreme mass renormalization are on the…

Eugene Wigner predicted long ago that when the Coulomb interactions between electrons become much stronger than their kinetic energy, electrons crystallize into a closely packed lattice. A variety of two-dimensional systems have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yen-Chen Tsui , Minhao He , Yuwen Hu , Ethan Lake , Taige Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani