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The electronic dispersion of a graphene bilayer is highly dependent on rotational mismatch between layers and can be further manipulated by electrical gating. This allows for an unprecedented control over electronic properties and opens up…
Ever since the novel quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene was discovered, and explained by a Berry phase of 2pi [K. S. Novoselov et al., "Unconventional quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase of 2pi in bilayer graphene", Nature Phys. 2,…
The ongoing efforts to optimize Li-ion batteries led to the interest in intercalation of nanoscale layered compounds, including bilayer graphene. Its lithium intercalation has been demonstrated recently but the mechanisms underpinning the…
Since its discovery, Berry phase has been demonstrated to play an important role in many quantum systems. In gapped Bernal bilayer graphene, the Berry phase can be continuously tuned from zero to 2pi, which offers a unique opportunity to…
The phase of a quantum state may not return to its original value after the system's parameters cycle around a closed path; instead, the wavefunction may acquire a measurable phase difference called the Berry phase. Berry phases typically…
We show that in gapped bilayer graphene, quasiparticle tunneling and the corresponding Berry phase can be controlled such that it exhibits features of single layer graphene such as Klein tunneling. The Berry phase is detected by a…
We theoretically study the phase of the reflection amplitude of an electron (massive Dirac fermion) at a lateral potential step in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. The phase shows anomalous jump of $\pi$, as the electron incidence angle…
Brillouin zones of graphene systems possess Dirac points, where band degeneracies occur. We study the variety of (and large magnitude) phases that the electronic states can acquire when a uniform time-dependent electric field carries the…
Berry phase plays an important role in determining many physical properties of quantum systems. However, a Berry phase altering energy spectrum of a quantum system is comparatively rare. Here, we report an unusual tunable valley polarized…
We show Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in topological insulator (Bi$_{x}$Sb$_{1-x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ films whose carrier type is p-type (x = 0.29, 0.34) and n-type (x = 0.42). The physical properties such as the Berry phase, mobility, and the…
Bilayer graphene is a highly promising material for electronic and optoelectronic applications since it is supporting massive Dirac fermions with a tuneable band gap. However, no consistent picture of the gap's effect on the optical and…
Chiral quasiparticles in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene have valley-contrasting Berry phases of 2{\pi}. This nontrival topological structure, associated with the pseudospin winding along a closed Fermi surface, is responsible for various…
We demonstrate that dislocations in the graphene lattice give rise to electron Berry phases equivalent to quantized values {0,1/3,-1/3} in units of the flux quantum, but with an opposite sign for the two valleys. An elementary scale…
We develop a theory of nonlinear response to an electric field of two-dimensional (2D) fermions with topologically non-trivial wave functions characterized by the Berry phase $\Phi_n = n \pi, n = 1,2,...$. In particular, we find that owing…
The electronic band structure of ABC-stacked multilayer graphene is studied within an effective mass approximation. The electron and hole bands touching at zero energy support chiral quasiparticles characterized by Berry's phase N pi for…
Berry phase is one of the key elements to understand quantum-mechanical phenomena such as the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the unconventional Hall effect in graphene. The Berry phase in monolayer and bilayer graphene has been manifested by the…
Single-layer carbon, or graphene, demonstrates amazing transport properties, such as the minimum conductivity near $\frac{4e^2}{h}$ independent of shapes and mobility of samples. This indicates there exist some unusual effects due to…
In this work, we present a microscopic quantum theory that elucidates the nonlinear and nonperturbative optical response of biased bilayer graphene subjected to bichromatic strong laser fields. This response is analyzed using a four-band…
Bilayer graphene and its thicker cousins with Rhombohedral stacking have attracted considerable attention because of their susceptibility to a variety of broken chiral symmetry states. Due to large density-of-states and quantized Berry…
Recent experiments have measured local uniaxial strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Our calculations found that the finite Berry curvature generated by breaking the sublattice symmetry and the band proximity between narrow…