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We study the electron transmission through the domain boundary on bilayer graphene separating AB and BA stacking regions. Using the effective continuum model, we calculate the electron transmission probability as a function of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikito Koshino

In a semiconductor superlattice with long scattering times, damping of Bloch oscillations due to scattering is so small that convective nonlinearities may compensate it and Bloch oscillations persist even in the hydrodynamic regime. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 L. L. Bonilla , M. Álvaro , M. Carretero

Bloch oscillations of atoms in optical lattices are a powerful technique that can boost the sensitivity of atom interferometers to a wide range of signals by large momentum transfer. To leverage this method to its full potential, an…

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures can be engineered into artificial superlattices that host flat bands with significant Berry curvature and provide a favorable environment for the emergence of novel electron dynamics. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

We consider magnetic breakdown in twisted bilayer graphene where electrons may hop between semiclassical $k$-space trajectories in different layers. These trajectories within a doubled Brillouin zone constitute a network in which an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

Galvanised by the emergent fields of metamaterials and topological wave physics, there is currently much interest in controlling wave propagation along structured arrays, and interfacial waves between geometrically different crystal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 G. J. Chaplain , M. P. Makwana , R. V. Craster

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

We study the electronic properties of twisted bilayers graphene in the tight-binding approximation. The interlayer hopping amplitude is modeled by a function, which depends not only on the distance between two carbon atoms, but also on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

We study the phenomenon of wave packet revivals of Bloch electrons and explore how to control them by a magnetic field for quantum information transfer. It is showed that the single electron system can be modulated into a linear dispersion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Yang , Z. Song , C. P. Sun

In this Letter, we present experimental findings on electron-electron scattering in a two-dimensional moir'e heterostructure with tunable Fermi wave vector, reciprocal lattice vector, and band gap. We achieve this in high-mobility aligned…

The propagation of electrons in an orbital multiplet dispersing on a lattice can support anomalous transport phenomena deriving from an orbitally-induced Berry curvature. In striking contrast to the related situation in graphene, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Vo Tien Phong , Zachariah Addison , Seongjin Ahn , Hongki Min , Ritesh Agarwal , E. J. Mele

We address Bloch oscillations of a spin-orbit coupled atom in periodic potentials of two types: Optical and Zeeman lattices. We show that in optical lattices the spin-orbit coupling allows controlling the direction of atomic motion and may…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-22 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Lluis Torner

We consider propagating bound states in the continuum in dielectric gratings. The gratings consist of a slab with ridges periodically arranged ether on top or on the both sides of the slab. Based on the Fourier modal approach we recover the…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 E. N. Bulgakov , D. N. Maksimov , P. N. Semina , S. A. Skorobogatov

A photonic realization of Bloch oscillations (BOs) of two correlated electrons that move on a one-dimensional periodic lattice, based on spatial light transport in a square waveguide array with a defect line, is theoretically proposed. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefano Longhi

Electronic properties of bilayer graphene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and monolayer graphene due to its particular chiral properties and excitation charge carrier dispersions. We study the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari

We study super Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in a shaken lattice potential, subjected to a harmonically modulated mean-field interaction. Usually, any interaction leads to the decay of the wave packet and its super Bloch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-22 Elena Díaz , Alberto García Mena , Kunihiko Asakura , Christopher Gaul

Bloch oscillations (BOs) are a fundamental phenomenon by which a wave packet undergoes a periodic motion in a lattice when subjected to an external force. Observed in a wide range of synthetic lattice systems, BOs are intrinsically related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Marco Di Liberto , Nathan Goldman , Giandomenico Palumbo

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

Bloch oscillations (BO) in complex lattices with PT symmetry are theoretically investigated with specific reference to optical BO in photonic lattices with gain/loss regions. Novel dynamical phenomena with no counterpart in ordinary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-08 S. Longhi

Electronic localization is numerically studied in disordered bilayer graphene with an electric-field induced energy gap. Bilayer graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, in which an energy gap can be opened and controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino