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Graphene has evolved as a platform for quantum transport that can compete with the best and cleanest semiconductor systems. Recently, many interesting local properties of carrier transport in graphene have been investigated by various…

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

We prepare a gate-defined quadruple quantum dot to study the gate-tunability of single to quadruple quantum dots with finite inter-dot tunnel couplings. The measured charging energies of various double dots suggest that the dot size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Tatsuki Takakura , Akito Noiri , Toshiaki Obata , Tomohiro Otsuka , Jun Yoneda , Katsuharu Yoshida , Seigo Tarucha

The electronic conductance of graphene-based bilayer flake systems reveal different quantum interference effects, such as Fabry-P\'erot resonances and sharp Fano antiresonances on account of competing electronic paths through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. Zambrano , L. Rosales , A. Latgé , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

We predict here the fine structure of an electrically tunable negatively charged exciton (trion) composed of two electrons and a hole confined in a gated bilayer graphene quantum dot (QD). We start with an atomistic approach, allowing us to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Katarzyna Sadecka , Yasser Saleem , Daniel Miravet , Matthew Albert , Marek Korkusinski , Gabriel Bester , Pawel Hawrylak

Vertical graphene-based device concepts that rely on quantum mechanical tunneling are intensely being discussed in literature for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. In this work, the carrier transport mechanisms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Sam Vaziri , Melkamu Belete , Eugenio Dentoni Litta , Anderson Smith , Grzegorz Lupina , Max C. Lemme , Mikael Östling

This work investigates the electronic properties of the energy spectrum of a hybrid system composed of (i) a circular quantum dot of monolayer graphene surrounded by an infinite sheet of AA-stacked bilayer graphene and (ii) a circular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Abdelhadi Belouad , Abdellatif Kamal , El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Rachid Houça , Mohammed El Bouziani

By taking into account the full four band energy spectrum, we calculate the transmission probability and conductance of electrons across symmetric and asymmetric double potential barrier with a confined interlayer potential difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Hasan A. Alshehab , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

Quantum dots realized in InAs are versatile systems to study the effect of spin-orbit interaction on the spin coherence, as well as the possibility to manipulate single spins using an electric field. We present transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Shorubalko , A. Pfund , R. Leturcq , M. T. Borgström , F. Gramm , E. Müller , E. Gini , K. Ensslin

We investigate the electronic and transport properties of gated bilayer graphene with one corrugated layer, which results in a stacking AB/BA boundary. When a gate voltage is applied to one layer, topologically protected gap states appear…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Pelc , W. Jaskólski , A. Ayuela , L. Chico

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is a unique platform where the combination of topology and strong correlations gives rise to exotic electronic phases. These phases are gate-tunable and related to the presence of flat…

We demonstrate here that a chain of Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots (BLGQDs) can realize topological quantum matter by effectively simulating a spin-1 chain that hosts the Haldane phase within a specific range of parameters. We describe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel Miravet , Hassan Allami , Marek Korkusinski , Pawel Hawrylak

Quantum confinement of graphene Dirac-like electrons in artificially crafted nanometer structures is a long sought goal that would provide a strategy to selectively tune the electronic properties of graphene, including bandgap opening or…

We propose a scalable scheme to implement quantum computation in graphene nanoribbon. It is shown that electron or hole can be naturally localized in each zigzag region for a graphene nanoribbon with a sequence of Z-shaped structure without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guo-Ping Guo , Zhi-Rong Lin , Xiao-Peng Li , Tao Tu , Guang-Can Guo

We demonstrate a tunneling and rectification behavior in bilayer graphene. A stepped dielectric top gate creates a spatially modulated electric field, which opens the band gap in the graphene and produces an insulating region at the p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Hisao Miyazaki , Michael Lee , Song-Lin Li , Hidefumi Hiura , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

We engineer a system of two strongly confined quantum dots to gain reproducible electrostatic control of the spin at zero magnetic field. Coupling the dots in a tight ring-shaped potential with two tunnel barriers, we demonstrate that an…

We present an electron interferometer defined purely by electrostatic gating in encapsulated bilayer graphene. This minimizes possible sample degradation introduced by conventional etching methods when preparing quantum devices. The device…

Gate-defined quantum dots define an attractive platform for quantum computation and have been used to confine individual charges in a planar array. Here, we demonstrate control over vertical double quantum dots confined in a double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Alexander Ivlev , Hanifa Tidjani , Stefan Oosterhout , Amir Sammak , Giordano Scappucci , Menno Veldhorst

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