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Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

Recent observations of superconductivity in Moire graphene have lead to an intense interest in that system, with subsequent studies revealing a more complex phase diagram including correlated insulators and ferromagnetic phases. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Z. E. Krix , O. P. Sushkov

We present theoretical results based on mean-field and exact many-body approaches showing that in bilayer triangular graphene quantum dots with zigzag edges the magnetism can be controlled by an external vertical electric-field. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , P. Hawrylak

Electron and hole Bloch states in gapped bilayer graphene exhibit topological orbital magnetic moments with opposite signs near the band edges, which allows for tunable valley-polarization in an out-of-plane magnetic field. This intrinsic…

Graphene double quantum open the possibility to use charge or spin degrees of freedom for storing and manipulating quantum information in this new electronic material. However, impurities and edge disorders in etched graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Da Wei , Hai-Ou Li , Gang Cao , Gang Luo , Zhi-Xiong Zheng , Tao Tu , Ming Xiao , Guang-Can Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang , Guo-Ping Guo

Bilayer graphene is a maturing material platform for gate-defined quantum dots that hosts long-lived spin and valley states. Implementing solid-state qubits in bilayer graphene requires a fundamental understanding of such confined…

We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Holger Fehske , Georg Hager , Andreas Pieper

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is known to be electronically decoupled due to the spatial separation of the Dirac cones corresponding to individual graphene layers in the reciprocal space. The close spacing between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Peter Rickhaus , Giulia Zheng , Klaus Richter , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Ming-Hao Liu

Artificial molecular states of double quantum dots defined in bilayer graphene are studied with the atomistic tight-binding and its low-energy continuum approximation. We indicate that the extended electron wave functions have opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 D. P. Żebrowski , F. M. Peeters , B. Szafran

We consider electrostatically coupled quantum dots in topological insulators, otherwise confined and gapped by a magnetic texture. By numerically solving the (2+1) Dirac equation for the wave packet dynamics, we extract the energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christian Ertler , Martin Raith , Jaroslav Fabian

We set up and parametrize a Hubbard model for interacting quantum dots in bilayer graphene and study double dots as the smallest multi-dot system. We demonstrate the tunability of the spin and valley multiplets, Hubbard parameters, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Angelika Knothe , Guido Burkard

Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

Quantum states in graphene are four-fold degenerate: two fold in spins, and two fold in valleys.Both degrees of freedom can be utilized for qubit preparations. In our bilayer graphene quantumdots, we demonstrate that the valley g-factorgv,…

Understanding how the electron spin is coupled to orbital degrees of freedom, such as a valley degree of freedom in solid-state systems is central to applications in spin-based electronics and quantum computation. Recent developments in the…

Unipolar transport is demonstrated in a bilayer graphene with a series of p-n junctions and is controlled by electrostatic biasing by a comb-shaped top gate. The OFF state is induced by multiple barriers in the p-n junctions, where the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Hisao Miyazaki , Song-Lin Li , Shu Nakaharai , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Magnetic barriers in graphene are not easily tunable. However, introducing both electric and magnetic fields, provides tunable and far more controllable electronic states in graphene. Here we study such systems. A one-dimensional channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Franco Nori

We report on the fabrication and characterization of all-carbon hybrid quantum devices based on graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes. We discuss both, carbon nanotube quantum dot devices with graphene charge detectors and nanotube…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Engels , P. Weber , B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Meyer , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

A quantum dot has been etched in bilayer graphene connected by two small constrictions to the leads. We show that this structure does not behave like a single quantum dot but consists of at least three sites of localized charge in series.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Dominik Bischoff , Anastasia Varlet , Pauline Simonet , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin