English
Related papers

Related papers: Interaction-induced insulating state in thick mult…

200 papers

The electronic properties of graphene can be manipulated via mechanical deformations, which opens prospects for studying the Dirac fermions in new regimes and for new device applications. Certain natural configurations of strain generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin

The thermodynamic properties of the electron gas in multilayer graphene depend strongly on the number of layers and the type of stacking. Here we analyse how those properties change when we vary the number of layers for rhombohedral stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

The electrical conductivity of suspended graphene has recently been measured for the first time, and found to behave as \sigma ~ \sqrt{|n|} as expected for Dirac quasiparticles at large carrier density. The charge inhomogeneity is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-14 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

We present the first systematic study of the stability of the structure and electrical properties of FeCl$_3$ intercalated few-layer graphene to high levels of humidity and high temperature. Complementary experimental techniques such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 D. J. Wehenkel , T. H. Bointon , T. Booth , P. Boggild , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

Bernal-stacked multilayer graphene is a versatile platform to explore quantum transport phenomena and interaction physics due to its exceptional tunability via electrostatic gating. For instance, upon applying a perpendicular electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 F. Winterer , A. M. Seiler , A. Ghazaryan , F. R. Geisenhof , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Serbyn , R. T. Weitz

Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 D. A. Bandurin , A. Principi , I. Y. Phinney , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

We review field theoretical studies dedicated to understanding the effects of electron-electron interaction in graphene, which is characterized by gapless bands, strong electron-electron interactions, and emerging Lorentz invariance deep in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 A. V. Kotikov

Although much progress has been made on the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings, little attention has been given to fractional fillings. Here we show that the three-peak structure of Wannier orbitals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Kevin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu , Eun-Ah Kim

Graphene [1] and its bilayer have generated tremendous excitement in the physics community due to their unique electronic properties [2]. The intrinsic physics of these materials, however, is partially masked by disorder, which can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

Graphene is a quantum spin Hall insulator with a 45 $\mu$eV wide non-trivial topological gap induced by the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. Even though this zero-field spin splitting is weak, it makes graphene an attractive candidate for…

We consider bilayer graphene in the presence of spin orbit coupling, to assess its behavior as a topological insulator. The first Chern number $n$ for the energy bands of single and bilayer graphene is computed and compared. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 E. Prada , P. San-Jose , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We introduce a new scheme to realize suspended, multi-terminal graphene structures that can be current annealed successfully to obtain uniform, very high quality devices. A key aspect is that the bulky metallic contacts are not connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of the graphene/Fe/Ni(111) system were investigated via combination of the density functional theory calculations and electron-spectroscopy methods. This system was prepared via intercalation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 M. Weser , E. N. Voloshina , K. Horn , Yu. S. Dedkov

Combining atomically-thin van der Waals materials into heterostructures provides a powerful path towards the creation of designer electronic devices. The interaction strength between neighboring layers, most easily controlled through their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Matthew Yankowitz , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Pablo San-Jose , Brian J. LeRoy

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

The recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene emerges from insulating states believed to arise from electronic correlations. While there have been many proposals to explain the insulating behaviour, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-06 J. M. Pizarro , M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

In graphene moir\'e superlattices, electronic interactions between layers are mostly hidden as band structures get crowded because of folding, making their interpretation cumbersome. Here, the evolution of the electronic band structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francisco Sanchez-Ochoa , Andres Botello-Mendez , Cecilia Noguez

We investigate the interplay of in-plane magnetic and transverse electric fields in AB-stacked bilayer graphene. In prior work, we demonstrated that this configuration induces an insulator-metal (IM) transition with large impact on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Amarnath Chakraborty , Aleksandr Rodin , Shaffique Adam , Giovanni Vignale