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We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

We introduce helical twisted quadrilayer graphene (HTQG), four graphene sheets rotated by the same small angle, as a versatile and experimentally accessible platform for correlated topological matter. HTQG consists of three moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Manato Fujimoto , Naoto Nakatsuji , Ashvin Vishwanath , Patrick Ledwith

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images are obtained for the first time on few layer and twisted multilayer epitaxial graphene states synthesized on n+ 6H-SiC a-plane non-polar surface. The twisted graphene is determined to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Xu , M. L. Ackerman , S. D. Barber , J. K. Schoelz , P. M. Thibado , V. D. Wheeler , L. O. Nyakiti , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill

In twisted van der Waals materials, local atomic relaxation can alter the underlying electronic structure. Characterizing lattice reconstruction and its susceptibility to strain is essential for understanding emergent electronic states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Yuwen Hu , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Trithep Devakul , Benjamin E. Feldman

We report on the energy spectrum of electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) obtained by the band-unfolding method in the tight-binding model. We find the band-gap opening at particular points in the reciprocal space, that elucidates…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita , Atsushi Oshiyama

In this article, we review the recent discoveries of exotic phenomena in graphene, especially superconductivity. It has been theoretically suggested for more than one decade that superconductivity may emerge in doped graphene-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-28 Yonghuan Chu , Fangduo Zhu , Linzhi Wen , Wanying Chen , Qiaoni Chen , Tianxing Ma

Moir\'e superlattices formed by vertically stacking van der Waals layers host a rich variety of correlated electronic phases and function as novel photonic materials. The moir\'e potential of the superlattice, however, is fixed by the…

The electronic and vibrational properties of 2D materials are dramatically altered by the formation of a moir\'e superlattice. The lowest-energy phonon modes of the superlattice are two acoustic branches (called phasons) that describe the…

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We investigate the mesoscopic transport through a twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) consisting of a clean graphene nanoribbon on the bottom and a disordered graphene disc on the top. We show that, with strong top-layer disorder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhe Hou , Ya-Yun Hu , Guang-Wen Yang

We report measurements of the electronic structure and surface morphology of exfoliated graphene on an insulating substrate using angle-resolved photoemission and low energy electron diffraction. Our results show that although exfoliated…

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

The recent discovery of graphene has sparked significant interest, which has so far been focused on the peculiar electronic structure of this material, in which charge carriers mimic massless relativistic particle. However, the structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jannik C. Meyer , A. K. Geim , M. I. Katsnelson , K. S. Novoselov , T. J. Booth , S. Roth

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

Topographic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of epitaxial single layer graphene on the Rh(111) surface reveal that extended single crystalline graphene domains are produced without any defects on a large scale. High resolution…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-08 M. Fonin , M. Sicot , O. Zander , S. Bouvron , Ph. Leicht , U. Rüdiger , M. Weser , Yu. S. Dedkov , K. Horn

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei