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We formulate a theory of transport in graphene bilayers in the weak momentum scattering regime in such a way as to take into account contributions to the electrical conductivity to leading and next-to-leading order in the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Using the B\"{u}ttiker-Landauer formulation of transport theory in the linear response regime, the valley currents and non-local resistances of bilayer graphene nanostructures with broken inversion symmetry are calculated. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Mohammadhadi Azari , George Kirczenow

The development of valleytronics demands long-range electronic transport with preserved valley index, a degree of freedom similar to electron spin. A promising structure for this end is a topological one-dimensional (1D) channel formed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 E. Mania , A. R. Cadore , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. C. Campos

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We derive the angular generation density of photoexcited carriers in gapless and gapped Bernal bilayer graphene. Exploiting the strong anisotropy of the band structure of bilayer graphene at low energies due to trigonal warping, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 T. J. Osborne , M. E. Portnoi , E. Mariani

The valley degree of freedom in 2D materials can be manipulated for low-dissipation quantum electronics called valleytronics. At the boundary between two regions of bilayer graphene with different atomic or electrostatic configuration,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Konstantin Davydov , Xi Zhang , Wei Ren , Matthew Coles , Logan Kline , Bryan Zucker , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Electronic states at domain walls in bilayer graphene are studied by analyzing their four and two band continuum models, by performing numerical calculations on the lattice, and by using quantum geometric arguments. The continuum theories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Fan Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , E. J. Mele

Graphene subject to high levels of shear strain leads to strong pseudo-magnetic fields resulting in the emergence of Landau levels. Here we show that, with modest levels of strain, graphene can also sustain a classical valley hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The wavefront dislocation is an important and ubiquitous phenomenon in wave fields. It is closely related to the phase singularity in a wave function. Some recent studies have verified that the wavefront dislocations in the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

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 achievement of valley-polarized electron currents is a cornerstone for the realization of valleytronic devices. Here, we report on ballistic coherent transport experiments where two opposite quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by…

Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

Proximity effects resulting from depositing a graphene layer on a TMD substrate layer change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects. An effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

We develop a theory for the nonlocal measurement of nonlinear valley Hall effect. Different from the linear case where the direct and the inverse processes are reciprocal, we unveil that the nonlinear inverse valley Hall effect needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jin Cao , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We show theoretically that two-dimensional direct-gap semiconductors with a valley degree of freedom, including monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides and gapped bilayer graphene, have a longitudinal magnetoconductivity contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Akihiko Sekine , Allan H. MacDonald

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

We derive electronic structure models for weakly interacting bilayers such as graphene-graphene and graphene-hexagonal boron nitride, based on density functional theory calculations followed by Wannier transformation of electronic states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Shiang Fang , Efthimios Kaxiras