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Broken symmetry states in bilayer graphene in perpendicular electric $E_\perp$ and in-plane magnetic $B_\parallel$ fields are studied in the presence of the dynamically screened long-range Coulomb interaction and the symmetry-breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-16 Junji Jia , P. K. Pyatkovskiy , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

Bilayer graphene in a perpendicular electric field can host domain walls between regions of reversed field direction or interlayer stacking. The gapless modes propagating along these domain walls, while not strictly topological,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Benjamin J. Wieder , Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

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

We report the experimental observation of Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interference in the conductance of a gate-defined cavity in a dual-gated bilayer graphene (BLG) device. The high quality of the BLG flake, combined with the device's electrical…

The recently realized bilayer graphene system with a twist angle of $30^\circ$ offers a new type of quasicrystal which unites the dodecagonal quasicrystalline nature and graphene's relativistic properties. Here, we introduce a concise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Young-Woo Son

Bilayer graphene field-effect transistors (BLG-FETs), unlike conventional semiconductors, are greatly sensitive to potential fluctuations due to the charged impurities in high-k gate stacks since the potential difference between two layers…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Teerayut Uwanno , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kosuke Nagashio

Both insulating and conducting electronic behaviors have been experimentally seen in clean bilayer graphene samples at low temperature, and there is still no consensus on the nature of the interacting ground state at half-filling and in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 Jia Ning Leaw , Ho-Kin Tang , Pinaki Sengupta , Fakher F. Assaad , Igor F. Herbut , Shaffique Adam

Superlattice potentials are theoretically predicted to modify the single-particle electronic structures. The resulting Coulomb-interaction-dominated low-energy physics would generate highly novel many-body phenomena. Here, by in situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Chaofei Liu , Jian Wang

The recent discovery of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene raises the question of whether the physics of graphene and its bilayer offers any advantages over GaAs-based materials in exploring strongly-correlated states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Z. Papic , R. Thomale , D. A. Abanin

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect in biased bilayer graphene based on a tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Integer quantum Hall plateaus with quantized conductivity $\sigma_{xy}=\nu e^2/h$ (where $\nu$ is any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 R. Ma , L. J. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N. Sheng

We report on the observation of periodic conductance oscillations near quantum Hall plateaus in suspended graphene nanoribbons. They are attributed to single quantum dots that form in the narrowest part of the ribbon, in the valleys and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 E. Tóvári , P. Makk , P. Rickhaus , C. Schönenberger , S. Csonka

We present the fabrication details of completely undoped electron-hole bilayer devices in a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well heterostructure with a 30 nm barrier. These devices have independently tunable densities of the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. A. Seamons , D. R. Tibbetts , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly

We propose a quantum gate architecture that allows for the systematic control of the effective exchange interactions between magnetic impurities embedded in nano-scale graphene flakes connected by a gated bridge. The entanglement between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Phillip Weinberg , Adrian E. Feiguin

The effects of Coulomb interactions on the electronic properties of bilayer graphene nanoribbons (BGNs) covered by a gate electrode are studied theoretically. The electron density distribution and the potential profile are calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

We show that topology of the low-energy band structure in bilayer graphene critically depends on mechanical deformations of the crystal which may easily develop in suspended graphene flakes. We describe the Lifshitz transition that takes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Igor L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The ability to detect and distinguish quantum interference signatures is important for both fundamental research and for the realization of devices including electron resonators, interferometers and interference-based spin filters.…