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Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Hridis K. Pal

Selection rules and interference effects in angle resolved photoemission spectra from twisted graphene bilayers are studied within a long wavelength theory for the electronic structure. Using a generic model for the interlayer coupling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Anshuman Pal , E. J. Mele

Van der Waals layered materials with well-defined twist angles between the crystal lattices of individual layers have attracted increasing attention due to the emergence of unexpected material properties. As many properties critically…

The wavefront dislocation is an important and ubiquitous phenomenon in wave fields. It is closely related to the phase singularity in a wave function. Some recent studies have verified that the wavefront dislocations in the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

We derive a material-realistic real-space many-body Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene from first principles, including both single-particle hopping terms for $p_z$ electrons and long-range Coulomb interactions. By disentangling low-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Tom Westerhout , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Malte Rösner

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) represents a family of unique materials with optoelectronic properties tuned by the rotation angle between the two layers. The presented work shows an additional way of tweaking the electronic structure of…

We investigate the contribution of the low-energy electronic excitations towards the Raman spectrum of bilayer graphene for the incoming photon energy Omega >> 1eV. Starting with the four-band tight-binding model, we derive an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , O. Kashuba , V. I. Fal'ko

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

We theoretically study the energy and optical absorption spectra of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) under a perpendicular electric field. We obtain analytically the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of ATMG up to pentalayer in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Kyungjin Shin , Yunsu Jang , Jiseon Shin , Jeil Jung , Hongki Min

If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a system that has striking differences when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Eduardo B. Molinero , Anushree Datta , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Rui E. F. Silva

The optical conductivities of graphene layers are strongly dependent on their stacking orders. Our first-principle calculations show that while the optical conductivities of single layer graphene (SLG) and bilayer graphene (BLG) with Bernal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-04 Yingying Wang , Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Yanhong Liu , Chunxiao Cong , Ting Yu , Xiaojun Wang , Dezhen Shen , Zexiang Shen

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We model optical absorption of monolayer and bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride for the case of closely-aligned crystal lattices. We show that perturbations with different spatial symmetry can lead to similar absorption spectra. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 D. S. L. Abergel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski

We study numerically the optical properties of low-buckled silicene and AB-stacked bilayer graphene quantum dots subjected to an external electric field, which is normal to their surface. Within the tight-binding model, the optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 H. Abdelsalam , M. H. Talaat , I. Lukyanchuk , M. E. Portnoi , V. A. Saroka

The magneto-optical absorption properties of graphene multilayers are theoretically studied. It is shown that the spectrum can be decomposed into sub-components effectively identical to the monolayer or bilayer graphene, allowing us to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Two-dimensional electron systems subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field absorb electromagnetic radiation via the cyclotron resonance (CR). Here we report a qualitative breach of this well-known behaviour in graphene. Our study of the…

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Hector Ochoa