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Moire materials like twisted bilayer graphene have emerged as a rich playground of strongly correlated physics, where the effect of interactions can be drastically enhanced by tuning the non-interacting density of states via twist angle. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-26 Tamaghna Hazra

The emergence of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) as a generalization of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) raises the question - in what important ways do these systems differ? Here, we utilize ab-initio relaxation and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Patrick J. Ledwith , Eslam Khalaf , Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ashvin Vishwanath

Marginally twisted bilayer graphene having small twist angles is predicted to exhibit unique structural and electronic properties, though experimental characterization remains limited. Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we investigate…

Angle-resolved photoemission and X-ray diffraction experiments show that multilayer epitaxial graphene grown on the SiC(000-1) surface is a new form of carbon that is composed of effectively isolated graphene sheets. The unique rotational…

We study electronic contribution to the Raman scattering signals of two-, three- and four-layer graphene with layers at one of the interfaces twisted by a small angle with respect to each other. We find that the Raman spectra of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 A. Garcia-Ruiz , J. J. P. Thompson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, we revise Chen's derivative rule for electron tunneling [C.J. Chen, Phys. Rev. B 42, 8841 (1990)] for the purpose of computationally efficient simulations of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-14 G. Mándi , K. Palotás

The electronic properties of few-layer graphene grown on the carbon-face of silicon carbide (SiC) are found to be strongly dependent on the number of layers. The carrier mobility is larger in thicker graphene because substrate-related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wenjuan Zhu , Christos Dimitrakopoulos , Marcus Freitag , Phaedon Avouris

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

Free standing silicene is predicted to display comparable electronic properties as graphene. However, the yet synthesized silicene-like structures have been only realized on different substrates which turned out to exhibit versatile…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 G. R. Berdiyorov , M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters , Adri C. T. van Duin

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

We investigated the growth of twisted graphene on graphene/silicon carbide (SiC-G) templates by metal-free chemical vapor deposition (CVD) through a sequential thermal (ST) process, which exploits the ultraclean surface of SiC-G without…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-08 Yao Yao , Taiki Inoue , Makoto Takamura , Yoshitaka Taniyasu , Yoshihiro Kobayashi

The structure of a graphene monolayer on Ir(111) has been investigated {\it in situ} in the growth chamber by surface x-ray diffraction including the specular rod, which allows disentangling the effect of the sample roughness from that of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Fabien Jean , Tao Zhou , Nils Blanc , Roberto Felici , Johann Coraux , Gilles Renaud

Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is used to characterize an amorphous layer observed at the interface in graphite and graphene films grown via thermal decomposition of C-face 4H-SiC. The amorphous layer does not to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Colby , M. L. Bolen , M. A. Capano , E. A. Stach

The crystallographic symmetries and spatial distribution of stacking domains in graphene films on SiC have been studied by low energy electron diffraction (LEED) and dark field imaging in a low energy electron microscope (LEEM). We find…

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to investigate the electronic structure of bilayer graphene at high n-doping and extreme displacement fields, created by intercalating epitaxial monolayer graphene on silicon carbide with…

Graphene, a one-layer honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, exhibits unconventional phenomena and attracts much interest since its discovery. Recently, an unexpected Mott-like insulator state induced by moir\'e pattern and a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Yao Wang , Yi-Jun Chang , Jun Gao , Yong-Heng Lu , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Fang-Wei Ye , Xian-Min Jin

We analyze the phase diagram of multilayer-graphene sandwiched between identical transition metal dichalcogenides. Recently realized in all van-der-Wall heterostructures, these sandwiches induce sizable (1-15 meV) spin orbit coupling in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Michael P. Zaletel , Jun Yong Khoo