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The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

We present a mainly analytical study of the entanglement spectrum of Bernal-stacked graphene bilayers in the presence of trigonal warping in the energy spectrum. Upon tracing out one layer, the entanglement spectrum shows qualitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Sonja Predin , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

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

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

Two dimensional (2D) materials provide a unique platform to explore the full potential of magnetic proximity driven phenomena, which can be further used for applications in next generation spintronic devices. Of particular interest is to…

We investigate the effects of lithium intercalation in twisted bilayers of graphene, using first-principles electronic structure calculations. To model this system we employ commensurate supercells that correspond to twist angles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Daniel T. Larson , Stephen Carr , Georgios A. Tritsaris , Efthimios Kaxiras

We compute the phase diagram of a biased graphene bilayer. The existence of a ferromagnetic phase is discussed with respect both to carrier density and temperature. We find that the ferromagnetic transition is first order, lowering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , N. A. P. Silva

Van Hove singularities enhance many-body interactions and induce collective states of matter ranging from superconductivity to magnetism. In magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, van Hove singularities appear at low energies and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Suvronil Datta , Saisab Bhowmik , Harsh Varshney , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , U. Chandni

The band structure and transport properties of massive Dirac Fermions in bilayer graphene with velocity modulation in space are investigated in presence of the previously created band gap. It is pointed out that the velocity engineering is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

When a crystal becomes thinner and thinner to the atomic level, peculiar phenomena discretely depending on its layer-numbers (n) start to appear. The symmetry and wave functions strongly reflect the layer-numbers and stacking order, which…

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

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The Berry phase and the group-velocity-based traversal time have been calculated for an asymmetric non-contacted or contacted graphene structure, and significant differences have been observed compared to semiconductor heterostructures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniela Dragoman

Graphene has evolved as a platform for quantum transport that can compete with the best and cleanest semiconductor systems. Recently, many interesting local properties of carrier transport in graphene have been investigated by various…

Angle disorder is an intrinsic feature of twisted bilayer graphene and other moir\'e materials. Here, we discuss electron transport in twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of angle disorder. We compute the local density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea