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We study the mean-field broken symmetry phases of charge neutral multilayer rhombohedral graphene within tight-binding approximations including self-consistent extended Hubbard interactions. We used on-site and inter-site Hubbard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Dongkyu Lee , Wooil Yang , Young-Woo Son , Jeil Jung

We present the results of ab-initio density functional theory based calculations of the stability and reconstruction of zigzag edges in triangular graphene quantum dots. We show that, while the reconstructed pentagon-heptagon zigzag edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Oleksandr Voznyy , Alev Devrim Güçlü , Pawel Potasz , Pawel Hawrylak

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

Motivated by recent experiments indicating strong superconductivity and intricate correlated insulating and flavor-polarized physics in mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene, we study the effects of interactions in this system close to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Maine Christos , Subir Sachdev , Mathias S. Scheurer

Combining mean-field and renormalization group analyses, here we unveil the nature of recently observed superconductivity and parent metallic states in chemically doped rhombohedral trilayer graphene, subject to external electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Andras Szabo , Bitan Roy

Strongly correlated materials feature multiple electronic orbitals which are crucial to accurately understand their many-body properties, from cuprate materials to twisted bilayer graphene. In such multi-band models, quantum interference…

We consider the stability of fragile topological bands protected by space-time inversion symmetry in the presence of strong electron-electron interactions. At the single-particle level, the topological nature of the bands prevents the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-21 Ari M. Turner , Erez Berg , Ady Stern

Recent investigations of the magnetic properties and the discovery of superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional triangular lattice organic charge-transfer solids have indicated the severe limitations of the effective 1/2-filled band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-01 R. T. Clay , N. Gomes , S. Mazumdar

Semi-metals are characterized by nodal band structures that give rise to exotic electronic properties. The stability of Dirac semi-metals, such as graphene in two spatial dimensions (2D), requires the presence of lattice symmetries, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Robert-Jan Slager , Vladimir Juricic , Ville Lahtinen , Jan Zaanen

Many graphene moir\'e superlattices host narrow bands with non-zero valley Chern numbers. We provide analytical and numerical evidence for a robust spin and/or valley polarized insulator at total integer band filling in nearly flat bands of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Cécile Repellin , Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

The band structures of strained graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined by a tight binding Hamiltonian that is directly related to the type and strength of strains. Compared to the two-dimensional graphene whose band gap remains close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yang Lu , Jing Guo

In contrast to the well recognized transverse-electric-field-induced half-metallicity in zigzag graphene nanoribbons, here we demonstrate by first-principles calculations that zigzag graphene nanoribbons sandwiched between hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Jin Yu , Wanlin Guo

Much attention has been focused on ways of rendering graphene semiconducting. We study periodically gated graphene in a tight-binding model and find that, contrary to predictions based on the Dirac equation, it is possible to open a band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

We study the effect of strain on the band engineering in gapped graphene subject to external sources. By applying the Floquet theory, we determine the effective Hamiltonian of electron dressed by a linearly, circularly and an elliptically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Hasna Chnafa , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abdelhadi Bahaoui

Half-metals have been envisioned as active components in spintronic devices by virtue of their completely spin-polarized electrical currents. Actual materials hosting half-metallic phases, however, remain scarce. Here, we predict that…

Starting with twisted bilayer graphene, graphene-based moir\'e materials have recently been established as a new platform for studying strong electron correlations. In this paper, we study twisted graphene monolayers on trilayer graphene…

In strongly interacting systems with multiple energy bands, the interplay between electrons with different effective masses and the enlarged Hilbert space drives intricate correlated phenomena that do not occur in single-band systems.…

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

The Dirac electrons of graphene, an intrinsic zero gap semiconductor, uniquely carry spin and pseudospin that give rise to many fascinating electronic and transport properties. While isolated zigzag graphene nanoribbons are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-22 M. X. Chen , M. Weinert