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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 intrinsic flexible character of polymeric materials also causes remarkable strain deformations along directions perpendicular to the applied stress. Here the biaxial response in the shear piezoelectricity of polyvinylidenefluoride…

We describe the gated bilayer graphene system when it is subjected to intense terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation. We examine the electron band structure and density of states via exact diagonalization methods within Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

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…

Graphene and few-layer graphene at high bias expose a wealth of phenomena due to the high temperatures reached. With in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) we observe directly how the current modifies the structure, and vice versa.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 Amelia Barreiro , Felix Boerrnert , Mark H. Ruemmeli , Bernd Buechner , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

Using the renormalized-ring-diagram approximation, we study the compressibility of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The compressibility is equivalent to the spin susceptibility apart from a constant factor. The chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

Bilayer graphene is a recently isolated and intriguing class of many-body systems with massive chiral quasiparticles. We present theoretical results for the electronic compressibility of bilayer graphene that are based on a four-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-06 Giovanni Borghi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics can maintain vertical polarization up to room temperature, and are, therefore, promising for next-generation nonvolatile memories. Although natural two-dimensional ferroelectrics are few, moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Renjun Du , Jingkuan Xiao , Di Zhang , Xiaofan Cai , Siqi Jiang , Fuzhuo Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lei Wang , Geliang Yu

In-situ high pressure Raman spectroscopy is used to study monolayer, bilayer and few-layer graphene samples supported on silicon in a diamond anvil cell to 3.5 GPa. The results show that monolayer graphene adheres to the silicon substrate…

The electronic properties of a triaxially strained hexagonal graphene flake with either armchair or zig-zag edges are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations and tight-binding calculations. We found that: i) the pseudo-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Neek-Amal , L. Covaci , Kh. Shakouri , F. M. Peeters

Using in situ low-energy electron microscopy and density functional theory, we studied the growth structure and work function of bilayer graphene on Pd(111). Low-energy electron diffraction analysis established that the two graphene layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-29 Y. Murata , S. Nie , A. Ebnonnasir , E. Starodub , B. B. Kappes , K. F. McCarty , C. V. Ciobanu , S. Kodambaka

The nature of electron correlations in bilayer graphene has been investigated. An analytic expression for the radial distribution function is derived for an ideal electron gas and the corresponding static structure factor is evaluated. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene is investigated from a resonant Raman study using different laser excitation energies. The values of the parameters of the Slonczewski-Weiss-McClure model for graphite are measured experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 L. M. Malard , J. Nilsson , D. C. Elias , J. C. Brant , F. Plentz , E. S. Alves , A. H. Castro Neto , M. A. Pimenta

A graphene bilayer shows an unusual magnetoelectric response whose magnitude is controlled by the valley-isospin density, making it possible to link magnetoelectric behavior to valleytronics. Complementary to previous studies, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , Ulrich Zülicke

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Shuze Zhu , Joseph A. Stroscio , Teng Li