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The two-dimensional electron gas in a bilayer graphene in the Bernal stacking supports a variety of uniform broken-symmetry ground states in Landau level N=0 at integer filling factors $\nu \in [-3,4].$ When an electric potential difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 R. Cote , J. P. Fouquet , Wenchen Luo

The recent discovery of superconductivity and magnetism in trilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) establishes an ideal, untwisted platform to study strong correlation electronic phenomena. However, the correlated effects in multilayer RG have…

Recent transport experiments have demonstrated that the rhombohedral stacking trilayer graphene is an insulator with an intrinsic gap of 6meV and the Bernal stacking trilayer one is a metal. We propose a Hubbard model with a moderate $U$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dong-Hui Xu , Jie Yuan , Zi-Jian Yao , Yi Zhou , Jin-Hua Gao , Fu-Chun Zhang

Few-layer graphene systems come in various stacking orders. Considering tight-binding models for electrons on stacked honeycomb layers, this gives rise to a variety of low-energy band structures near the charge neutrality point. Depending…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-07 Michael M. Scherer , Stefan Uebelacker , Daniel D. Scherer , Carsten Honerkamp

Graphene layers are known to stack in two stable configurations, namely ABA or ABC stacking, with drastically distinct electronic properties. Unlike the ABA stacking, little has been done to experimentally investigate the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Y. Henni , H. P. Ojeda Collado , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , C. Faugeras

Electrical properties of multi-layer graphene are subject to variations due to random interlayer alignments. In this work we reported graphene interlayer conductance without special layer aligning. Ohmic contacts between two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Yin Sun , Xintong Zhang , Longyan Wang , Lining Zhang , Salahuddin Raju , Mansun Chan

Motivated by the recently observed insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the nature of the correlated insulating phases of the twisted bilayer graphene at commensurate filling fractions. We use the continuum model and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Yi Zhang , Kun Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Fuchun Zhang

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

Lightly-doped rhombohedral multilayer graphene has recently emerged as one of the most promising material platforms for exploring electronic phases driven by strong Coulomb interactions and non-trivial band topology. This review highlights…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-29 Tobias Wolf , Nemin Wei , Haoxin Zhou , Chunli Huang

We investigate the electronic band structure and the proximity exchange effect in bilayer graphene on a family of ferromagnetic multilayers Cr$_2$X$_2$Te$_6$, X=Ge, Si, and Sn, with first principles methods. In each case the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

This work introduces a new class of two-dimensional crystals with the structure AC$_8$XC$_8$, consisting of two layers of graphene, a chalcogen (X = O, S, Se, Te) intercalation layer, and an alkaline earth (A = Be, Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba) adlayer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tommy Li

The effects of the electron-electron interactions in a graphene layer are investigated. It is shown that short range couplings are irrelevant, and scale towards zero at low energies, due to the vanishing of density of states at the Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

Theory predicts that double layer systems realize "two-component composite fermions," which are formed when electrons capture both intra- and inter-layer vortices, to produce a wide variety of new strongly correlated liquid and crystal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 William N. Faugno , Ajit C. Balram , Arkadiusz Wójs , Jainendra K. Jain

The study of exciton-polarons has offered profound insights into the many-body interactions between bosonic excitations and their immersed Fermi sea within layered heterostructures. However, little is known about the properties of exciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Huiying Cui , Qianying Hu , Xuan Zhao , Liguo Ma , Feng Jin , Qingming Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak , Yongqing Li , Yang Xu

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

We demonstrate that surface relaxation, which is insignificant in trilayer graphene, starts to manifest in Bernal-stacked tetralayer graphene. Bernal-stacked few-layer graphene has been investigated by analyzing its Landau level spectra…

When a magnetic field confines the carriers of a Fermi sea to their lowest Landau level, electron-electron interactions are expected to play a significant role in determining the electronic ground state. Graphite is known to host a sequence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 D. LeBoeuf , C. W. Rischau , G. Seyfarth , R. Küchler , M. Berben , S. Wiedmann , W. Tabis , M. Frachet , K. Behnia , B. Fauqué

We find theoretically energy spectrum of a graphene monolayer in a strong constant electric field using a tight-binding model. Within a single band, we find quantized equidistant energy levels (Wannier-Stark ladder), separated by the Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

The phase diagram of isotropically expanded graphene cannot be correctly predicted by ignoring either electron correlations, or mobile carbons, or the effect of applied stress, as was done so far. We calculate the ground state enthalpy (not…