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We investigate chiral superconductivity emerging from parent electronic states with non-uniform Berry curvature, motivated by recent experiments in rhombohedral graphene multilayers. Using the continuum $\lambda_N$-model-a tunable platform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-22 L. David Le Nir , Asimpunya Mitra , Yong Baek Kim

We study phonon-mediated pairings in a single-flavor metal with a tunable Berry curvature. In the absence of Berry curvature, we discover an unexpected possibility: $p$-wave superconductivity emerging purely from the retardation effect,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-01 Yang-Zhi Chou , Jihang Zhu , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

We investigate electronic band-structure images in reciprocal space of few layer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC(000-1). In addition to the observation of commensurate rotation angles of the graphene layers, the k-space images recorded…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 C. Mathieu , E. H. Conrad , F. Wang , J. E. Rault , V. Feyer , C. M. Schneider , O. Renault , N. Barrett

In a Bernal graphene bilayer, carbon atoms belong to two inequivalent sublattices A and B, with atoms that are coupled to the other layer by $p_\sigma$ bonds belonging to sublattice A and the other atoms belonging to sublattice B. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ahmed Missaoui , Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Nejm-Eddine Jaidane , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Weyl semimetal, a three-dimensional electronic system with relativistic linear energy dispersion around gapless points carrying nontrivial Berry charge, is predicted to exhibit a wealth of unique response and transport properties.A crucial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-01 Imam Makhfudz

When using hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) as a substrate for graphene, the resulting moir\'e pattern creates secondary Dirac points. By encapsulating a multilayer graphene within aligned hBN sheets the controlled moir\'e stacking may offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Robin Smeyers , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

We theoretically investigate light propagation and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered superlattices composed of dielectric stacks with graphene sheets in between. Disorder is introduced either on graphene material…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-19 A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , F. A. Pinheiro

On the basis of self-consistent Born approximation, we present a theory of weak localization of Dirac fermions under finite-range scatters in graphene. With an explicit solution to the ground state of singlet pseudospin Cooperons, we solve…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-28 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We investigate the emergence of extra Dirac points in the electronic structure of a periodically spaced barrier system, i.e., a superlattice, on single-layer graphene, using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Using square barriers allows us to find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We report the emergence of massless Dirac fermions in moir\'{e}-reconstructed bands of bilayer graphene (BLG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Magnetotransport measurements reveal that while the primary BLG band retains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Mohit Kumar Jat , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Aveek Bid

Graphene lacks an intrinsic band-gap, which limits its use in electronic applications. Here we demonstrate that periodic arrays of topological defects can open and control a band-gap in a predictable manner governed by defect spacing and…

We study the effect of weak disorder on the delocalization properties of gapped graphene superlattice (SL) formed by periodically located rectangular potential barriers. We consider two types of the SLs: the SLs with uniform and nonuniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

Full experimental control of local spin-charge interconversion is of primary interest for spintronics. Heterostructures combining graphene with a strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional (2D) material enable such functionality by design.…

Electron pairing in the vast majority of superconductors follows the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity, which describes the condensation of electrons into pairs with antiparallel spins in a singlet state with an s-wave…

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

Thermodynamics coupled with quantum features on electron and hole dynamics in Dirac materials is quite interesting and crucial for real device applications. The correlation between the formation of electron-hole puddles in nearer to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Karuppuchamy Navamani

The adhesion of graphene on slightly lattice-mismatched surfaces, for instance of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or Ir(111), gives rise to a complex landscape of sublattice symmetry-breaking potentials for the Dirac fermions. Whereas a gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Carmine Ortix , Liping Yang , Jeroen van den Brink

The existence of superconductivity (SC) in graphene appears to be established in both twisted and non-twisted multilayers. However, whether their building block, single-layer graphene (SLG), can also host SC remains an open question.…

A central feature of many van der Waals (vdW) materials is the ability to precisely control their charge doping, $n$, and electric displacement field, $D$, using top and bottom gates. For devices composed of only a few layers, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Kryštof Kolář , Dacen Waters , Joshua Folk , Matthew Yankowitz , Cyprian Lewandowski

We report the discovery of electric-field-induced transition from a topologically trivial to a topologically nontrivial band structure in an atomically sharp heterostructure of bilayer graphene (BLG) and single-layer WSe2 per the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Priya Tiwari , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Aveek Bid