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Compression dramatically changes the transport and localization properties of graphene. This is intimately related to the change of symmetry of the Dirac cone when the particle hopping is different along different directions of the lattice.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 B. Real , O. Jamadi , M. Milićević , N. Pernet , P. St-Jean , T. Ozawa , G. Montambaux , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , S. Ravets , J. Bloch , A. Amo

Since the discovery of graphene, layered materials have attracted extensive interests owing to their unique electronic and optical characteristics. Among them, Dirac semimetal, one of the most appealing categories, has been a long-sought…

Physics arising from two-dimensional~(2D) Dirac cones has been a topic of great theoretical and experimental interest to studies of gapless topological phases and to simulations of relativistic systems. Such $2$D Dirac cones are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Wenlei Zhao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We consider the electronic structure of a slightly twisted graphene bilayer and show the coexistence of van Hove singularities (VHSs) and superlattice Dirac points in a continuum approximation. The graphene-on-graphene moir\'e pattern gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

Quantum point contacts (QPCs) are cornerstones of mesoscopic physics and central building blocks for quantum electronics. Although the Fermi wave-length in high-quality bulk graphene can be tuned up to hundreds of nanometers, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 B. Terrés , L. A. Chizhova , F. Libisch , J. Peiro , D. Jörger , S. Engels , A. Girschik , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. V. Rotkin , J. Burgdörfer , C. Stampfer

We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai

The detailed study of the graphene (gr) moir\'e superlattices emerging due to the mismatch between the substrate's and gr-overlayer crystal lattices is inevitable because of its high technological relevance. However, little is known about…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Süle , M. Szendrő

Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from quantum anomalous Hall effect to Majorana fermions. However, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Luis A. Jauregui , Michael T. Pettes , Leonid P. Rokhinson , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

In the last few years, the fascinating properties of graphene have been thoroughly investigated. The existence of Dirac cones is the most important characteristic of the electronic band-structure of graphene. In this theoretical paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Rojas-Cuervo , K. M. Fonseca-Romero , R. R. Rey-González

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…

The moir\'e superlattice induced in graphene by the hexagonal boron nitride substrate modifies strongly the bandstructure of graphene, which manifests itself by the appearance of new Dirac points, accompanied by van Hove singularities. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 D. I. Indolese , R. Delagrange , P. Makk , J. R. Wallbank , K. Wanatabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Schönenberger

Spectral analysis of Shubnikov de Haas (SdH) oscillations of magnetoresistance and of Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) measured in quasi-2D highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 156402 (2003)] reveals two types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Luk'yanchuk , Yakov Kopelevich

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

The physics of massless relativistic quantum particles has recently arisen in the electronic properties of solids following the discovery of graphene. Around the accidental crossing of two energy bands, the electronic excitations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Thibaud Louvet , Pierre Delplace , Andrei A. Fedorenko , David Carpentier

Graphene devices require electric contacts with metals, particularly with gold. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of electron local density of states performed on mono-, bi- and tri- graphene layer deposited on metallic conductive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-05 Z. Klusek , P. Dabrowski , P. Kowalczyk , W. Kozlowski , P. Blake , M. Szybowicz , T. Runka , W. Olejniczak

We consider Berry phase mediated Nernst effect in silicene. The low energy band structure of silicene consists of two valleys near the Dirac points, similar to graphene. The low energy transport properties of the quasiparticles can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 I. Ahmed , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

The $\alpha$-$T_3$ lattice, an interpolation model between the honeycomb lattice of graphene($\alpha=0$) and the dice lattice($\alpha=1$), undergoes a topological phase transition across $\alpha=1/\sqrt{2}$ when exposed to a circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Lakpa Tamang , Tutul Biswas

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Hayoon Im , Sue Hyeon Hwang , Minhee Kang , Kyoo Kim , Haeyong Kang , Choongyu Hwang

We report on high-field magnetotransport (B up to 35 T) on a gated superlattice based on single-layer graphene aligned on top of hexagonal boron nitride. The large-period moir\'e modulation (15 nm) enables us to access the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. Pezzini , S. Wiedmann , A. Mishchenko , M. Holwill , R. Gorbachev , D. Ghazaryan , K. S. Novoselov , U. Zeitler