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Misoriented bilayer graphene with commensurate angles shows unique magneto-optical properties. The optical absorption spectra of such a system strongly depend on the angle of rotation. For a general commensurate twist angle the absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Stacking two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides with nonzero interlayer twist angles has recently become attractive because of the emergence of novel physical properties. Stacking of…

Twisted graphene layers produce a moir\'e pattern (MP) structure with a predetermined wavelength for given twist angle. However, predicting the membrane corrugation amplitude for any angle other than pure AB-stacked or AA-stacked graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Neek-Amal , P. Xu , D. Qi , P. M. Thibado , L. O. Nyakiti , V. D. Wheeler , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill , F. M. Peeters

Here we show that twisted graphene trilayer made by misoriented stacking a graphene monolayer on top of a Bernal graphene bilayer can exhibit rich and tailored electronic properties. For the case that the graphene monolayer and bilayer are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 Jia-Bin Qiao , Lin He

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

We generalize the continuum model for Moir\'e structures made from twisted graphene layers, in order to include lattice relaxation and the formation of channels at very small (marginal) twist angles. We show that a precise description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Twisted graphene based moir\'e heterostructures host a flat band at the magic angles where the kinetic energy of the charge carriers is quenched and interaction effects dominate. This results in emergent phases such as superconductors and…

Bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense study in recent years. We extend a structural phase field crystal method to include an external potential from adjacent layer(s), which is generated by the corresponding phase field and changes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-24 Kai Liu

We model the newly synthesized magic-angle twisted bilayer-graphene superconductor with two $p_{x,y}$-like Wannier orbitals on the superstructure honeycomb lattice, where the hopping integrals are constructed via the Slater-Koster formulism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-28 Cheng-Cheng Liu , Li-Da Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen , Fan Yang

The phase diagram of isotropically expanded graphene cannot be correctly predicted by ignoring either electron correlations, or mobile carbons, or the effect of applied stress, as was done so far. We calculate the ground state enthalpy (not…

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a clean and highly reproducible platform to explore the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in a strongly interacting electron system. Here, we use electronic compressibility and local…

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

We develop a theory for interlayer pairing of chiral electrons in graphene materials which results in an unconventional superconducting (S) state with s-wave spin-triplet order parameter. In a pure bilayer graphene, this superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan

This thesis studies how the rudimentary attributes of graphene's charge carriers, and local moments on its surface, can be directly manipulated and controlled with electrostatic potentials. We first consider bilayer graphene subject to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-25 Matthew Killi

Interlayer magnetoresistance (ILMR) effect is explored in a vertical stack of weakly coupled multilayer graphene as grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). This effect has been characterized as a function of temperature and tilt angle of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 S. C. Bodepudi , Xiao Wang , Sandipan Pramanik

Graphene and its heterostructures exhibit interesting electronic properties and are explored for quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) and magnetism based device applications. In present work, we propose a heterostructure of graphene encapsulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-07 Mohammed Ghadiyali , Sajeev Chacko

Twisted two-dimensional (2D) layered materials exhibit many novel and unique phenomena, such as insulation and superconductivity transition, and superlubricity. However, the effect of twisting on these phenomena remains unclear. A key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Ze Liu

Graphene is the nature's thinnest elastic membrane, with exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. We report the direct observation and creation of one-dimensional (1D) and 2D periodic ripples in suspended graphene sheets, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Wenzhong Bao , Feng Miao , Zhen Chen , Hang Zhang , Wanyoung Jang , Chris Dames , Chun Ning Lau

The tight-binding model of electrons in graphene is reviewed. We derive low-energy Hamiltonians supporting massless Dirac-like chiral fermions and massive chiral fermions in monolayer and bilayer graphene, respectively, and we describe how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edward McCann

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…