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Graphene-based systems have emerged as a rich platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena-including superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated insulating behavior-arising from flat electronic bands that enhance many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Xinyu Cai , Fengfan Ren , Qiao Li , Yanran Shi , Yifan Wang , Yifan Zhang , Zhenghang Zhi , Jiawei Luo , Yulin Chen , Jianpeng Liu , Xufeng Kou , Zhongkai Liu

We study the electronic structure of Dirac fermions scattered by double barrier potential in graphene under strain effect. We show that traction and compression strains can be used to generate fermion beam collimation, 1D channels, surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian describing massive chiral quasiparticles in two parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

The study of exciton-polarons has offered profound insights into the many-body interactions between bosonic excitations and their immersed Fermi sea within layered heterostructures. However, little is known about the properties of exciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Huiying Cui , Qianying Hu , Xuan Zhao , Liguo Ma , Feng Jin , Qingming Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak , Yongqing Li , Yang Xu

We present first-principles calculations of silicene/graphene and germanene/graphene bilayers. Various supercell models are constructed in the calculations in order to reduce the strain of the lattice-mismatched bilayer systems. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Yongmao Cai , Chih-Piao Chuu , C. M. Wei , M. Y. Chou

The tight-binding model is closely associated with the modified layer-based random-phase approximation to thoroughly investigate the electron-electron interactions in sliding bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interactions and intralayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

Graphene is a novel two-dimensional material with fascinating electrodynamic properties like the ability to support collective electron oscillations (plasmons) accompanied by tight confinement of electromagnetic fields. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Marinko Jablan

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

A 2+1 dimensional fermion field theory is proposed as a model for the low-energy electronic excitations in monolayer graphene. The model consists of N=2 four-component Dirac fermions moving in the plane and interacting via a contact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-29 Wes Armour , Simon Hands , Costas Strouthos

Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are extraordinarily sensitive to carrier density and to controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Eva Y. Andrei , Allan H. MacDonald

The low-energy physics of graphene is described by relativistic Dirac fermions with spin and valley degrees of freedom. Mechanical strain can be used to create a pseudo magnetic field pointing to opposite directions in the two valleys. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-29 Ying-Hai Wu , Tao Shi , G. J. Sreejith , Zheng-Xin Liu

We employ a mean-field theory to study ground-state properties and transport of a two-dimensional gas of ultracold alklaline-earth metal atoms governed by the Kondo Lattice Hamiltonian plus a parabolic confining potential. In a homogenous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Foss-Feig , Michael Hermele , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

The effects of gauge interactions in graphene have been analyzed up to now in terms of effective models of Dirac fermions. However, in several cases lattice effects play an important role and need to be taken consistently into account. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-19 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

Supercapacitors store energy via the formation of an electric double layer, which generates a strong electric field at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Unlike conventional metallic electrodes, graphene-derived materials suffer from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-12 Maxwell D. Radin , Tadashi Ogitsu , Minoru Otani , Juergen Biener , Brandon C. Wood

The proximity-induced couplings in graphene due to the vicinity of a ferromagnetic insulator are analyzed. We combine general symmetry principles and simple tight-binding descriptions to consider different orientations of the magnetization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Vo Tien Phong , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

We consider the effective field theory of graphene monolayer with the Coulomb interaction between fermions taken into account. The gauge field in momentum space is introduced. The position of the Fermi point coincides with the position of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 M . A. Zubkov

In mean-field-theory bilayer graphene's massive Dirac fermion model has a family of broken inversion symmetry ground states with charge gaps and flavor dependent spontaneous inter layer charge transfers. We use a lattice Hartree-Fock model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-22 Jeil Jung , Fan Zhang , Allan H. MacDonald

We report on high-field magnetotransport (B up to 35 T) on a gated superlattice based on single-layer graphene aligned on top of hexagonal boron nitride. The large-period moir\'e modulation (15 nm) enables us to access the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. Pezzini , S. Wiedmann , A. Mishchenko , M. Holwill , R. Gorbachev , D. Ghazaryan , K. S. Novoselov , U. Zeitler