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The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

Valley filtering processes have been explored in different graphene-based configurations and scenarios to control transport responses. Here we propose graphene multi-terminal set-ups properly designed to obtain valley filtered currents in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Vanessa Torres , Daiara Faria , Andrea Latgé

A nanoelectronic device made of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is proposed to steer the direction of the current flow. The ballistic electron current, injected at one edge of the bottom layer, can be guided predominantly to one of the…

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

Junctions composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically proposed as electron beam splitters where incoming electron waves in one GNR can be split coherently into propagating waves in \emph{two} outgoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Sofia Sanz , Nick Papior , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Mads Brandbyge , Thomas Frederiksen

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

We present gate-controlled single, double, and triple dot operation in electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene. Thanks to the recent advancements in sample fabrication, which include the encapsulation of bilayer graphene in hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Luca Banszerus , Benedikt Frohn , Alexander Epping , Daniel Neumaier , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

Topological properties of electronic states in multivalley two-dimensional materials, such as mono- and bilayer graphene, or thin films of rhombohedral graphite, give rise to various unusual magneto-transport regimes. Here, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Christian Moulsdale , Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

We investigate gated trilayer graphene partially devoid of outer layers and forming a system of two trilayers connected by a single layer of graphene. A difference in the stacking order of trilayers leads to the appearance of gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Trilayer graphene with a twisted middle layer has recently emerged as a new platform exhibiting correlated phases and superconductivity near its magic angle. A detailed characterization of its electronic structure in the parameter space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jiseon Shin , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

We report the fabrication of electrostatically defined nanostructures in encapsulated bilayer graphene, with leakage resistances below depletion gates as high as $R \sim 10~$G$\Omega$. This exceeds previously reported values of $R =~$10 -…

We study conductance and adiabatic pumped charge and spin currents in a graphene quantum pump with Corbino geometry in the presence of an applied perpendicular magnetic field. The pump is driven by the periodic and out of phase modulations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Babak Abdollahipour , Elham Moomivand

The nature of the electronic ground states in strained undoped graphene at weak interaction between electrons is discussed. After providing a lattice realization of the strain-induced axial magnetic field we numerically find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Bitan Roy , Igor F. Herbut

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

Using wave function matching approach and employing the Landauer-Buttiker formula a ferromagnetic graphene junction with a temperature gradient across the system, is studied. We calculate the thermally induced charge and spin current as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Javad Vahedi , Fattaneh Barimani

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Tony Low , Francisco Guinea

Many of the experiments in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) differ from each other in terms of the details of their phase diagrams. Few controllable aspects aside, this discrepancy is largely believed to be arising from the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Bikash Padhi , Apoorv Tiwari , Titus Neupert , Shinsei Ryu

The interplay of topological electronic band structures and strong interparticle interactions provides a promising path towards the constructive design of robust, long-range entangled many-body systems. As a prototype for such systems, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-19 Steffen Bollmann , Chandan Setty , Urban F. P. Seifert , Elio J. König

The non-interacting energy spectrum of graphene and its bilayer counterpart consists of multiple degeneracies owing to the inherent spin, valley and layer symmetries. Interactions among charge carriers are expected to spontaneously break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby