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We study transport in twisted bilayer graphene and show that electrostatic barriers can act as valley splitters, where electrons from the $K$ ($K'$) valley are transmitted only to e.g.\ the top (bottom) layer, leading to valley-layer locked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Christophe De Beule , Peter G. Silvestrov , Ming-Hao Liu , Patrik Recher

The quantum Goos-H\"anchen shifts of the transmitted electron beam through an AA-stacked bilayer graphene superlattices is investigated. We found that the band structures of graphene superlattices can have more than one Dirac point, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Youness Zahidi , Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal

Our research focuses on the transmission gaps of charge carriers passing through phosphorene superlattice, which are made up of a series of barriers and wells generating $n$ identical cells. We determine the solutions of the energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Jilali Seffadi , Ilham Redouani , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele

Transmission probabilities of Dirac fermions in graphene under linear barrier potential oscillating in time are investigated. Solving Dirac equation we end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum depending on several modes coming from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

We study numerically the dynamics of a one-electron wave packet in a two-dimensional random lattice with long-range correlated diagonal disorder in the presence of a uniform electric field. The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. B. F. de Moura , M. L. Lyra , F. Dominguez-Adame , V. A. Malyshev

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

We consider the motion of charge carriers in a bulk wide-gap dielectric interacting with a few-cycle laser pulse. A semiclassical model based on Bloch equations is applied to describe the emerging time-dependent macroscopic currents for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Cyclotron motion of charge carriers in metals and semiconductors leads to Landau quantization and magneto-oscillatory behavior in their properties. Cryogenic temperatures are usually required to observe these oscillations. We show that…

A transmon qubit embedded in a high-impedance environment acts in a way dual to a conventional Josephson junction. In analogy to the AC Josephson effect, biasing of the transmon by a direct current leads to the oscillations of voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Benjamin Remez , Leonid I. Glazman

The electronic dispersion of a graphene bilayer is highly dependent on rotational mismatch between layers and can be further manipulated by electrical gating. This allows for an unprecedented control over electronic properties and opens up…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

Motivated by recent experimental findings on the low-energy spectrum of Kekul\'e-patterned graphene, the optoelectronic signatures of graphene superlattices with a spatial modulation that triples the size of the unit cell and folds the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

Recent experimental advances have been marked by the observations of ballistic electron transport in moir\'e superlattices in highly aligned heterostructures of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Here, we predict that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Christian Moulsdale , Vladimir Fal'ko

Achieving Bloch oscillations of free carriers under a direct current, a long-sought-after collective many-body behavior, has been challenging due to stringent constraints on the band properties. We argue that the flat bands in moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ali Fahimniya , Zhiyu Dong , Egor Kiselev , Leonid Levitov

We report an analytical theory of linear emission of exchange spin waves from a Bloch domain wall, excited by a uniform microwave magnetic field. The problem is reduced to a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger-like equation with a P\"oschl-Teller…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-16 N. J. Whitehead , S. A. R. Horsley , T. G. Philbin , A. N. Kuchko , V. V. Kruglyak

We study the dynamics of an electron subjected to a static uniform electric field within a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a slowly varying aperiodic potential. The unbiased model is known to support phases of localized and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 F. A. B. F. de Moura , M. L. Lyra , F. Dominguez-Adame , V. A. Malyshev

We present a throughout study of transmission and localization properties of Fibonacci superlattices, both in flat band conditions and subject to homogeneous electric fields perpendicular to the layers. We use the transfer matrix formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mario Castro , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

Evanescently coupled waveguides are a powerful platform to study and visualize the wave dynamics in tight-binding systems. Here, we investigate the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in arrays of dielectric loaded surface plasmon…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Helene Wetter , Zlata Fedorova , Stefan Linden

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey