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We investigate the mesoscopic transport through a twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) consisting of a clean graphene nanoribbon on the bottom and a disordered graphene disc on the top. We show that, with strong top-layer disorder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhe Hou , Ya-Yun Hu , Guang-Wen Yang

Twisted bilayered graphenes at magic angles are systems housing long ranged periodicity of Moir\'e pattern together with short ranged periodicity associated with the individual graphenes. Such materials are a fertile ground for novel states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Lilia M. Woods

We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the presence of either skew interlayer coupling or interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Narjes Kheirabadi , Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Layers of two-dimensional materials stacked with a small twist-angle give rise to beating periodic patterns on a scale much larger than the original lattice, referred to as a moir\'e superlattice. When the stacking involves more than two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Kan-Ting Tsai , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Yujie Luo , Stephen Carr , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ke Wang

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

We investigate the electronic confinement in bilayer graphene by topological loops of different shapes. These loops are created by lateral gates acting via gap inversion on the two graphene sheets. For large-area loops the spectrum is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

A remarkable property of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with small twist angle is the presence of a well-defined and conserved low-energy valley degrees of freedom1, which can potentially bring about new types of valley-associated…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-23 Si-Yu Li , Yu Zhang , Ya-Ning Ren , Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai , Lin He

We explore the moir\'e magnon bands in twisted bilayer magnets with next-nearest neighboring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, assuming that the out-of-plane collinear magnetic order is preserved under weak interlayer coupling. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

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

Electron bands in the untwisted bilayer graphene flatten out in a transverse electric field, offering a promising platform for correlated electron physics. We predict that the spin/valley isospin magnetism, resembling that seen in moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Zhiyu Dong , Margarita Davydova , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

We investigate here how the current flows over a bilayer graphene in the presence of an external electric field perpendicularly applied (biased bilayer). Charge density polarization between layers in these systems is known to create a layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira

A moire pattern is formed when two copies of a periodic pattern are overlaid with a relative twist. We address the electronic structure of a twisted two-layer graphene system, showing that in its continuum Dirac model the moire pattern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

We study the edge states of twisted bilayer graphene and their topological origin. We show that the twisted bilayer graphene has special edge states associated with the moir\'{e} pattern, and the emergence of these moir\'{e} edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Manato Fujimoto , Mikito Koshino

Graphene-based moir\'{e} systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years as they display a remarkable variety of correlated phenomena. Besides insulating and superconducting phases in the vicinity of integer fillings of the…

We identify a mapping between two-dimensional (2D) electron transport in a minimally twisted graphene bilayer and a 1D quantum walk, where one spatial dimension plays the role of time. In this mapping a magnetic field B perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 T. Vakhtel , D. O. Oriekhov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Stacking three monolayers of graphene with a twist generally produces two moir\'e patterns. A moir\'e of moir\'e structure then emerges at larger distance where the three layers periodically realign. We devise here an effective low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Yuncheng Mao , Daniele Guerci , Christophe Mora

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

Angle disorder is an intrinsic feature of twisted bilayer graphene and other moir\'e materials. Here, we discuss electron transport in twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of angle disorder. We compute the local density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

We demonstrate that there exists a continuum Hamiltonian $H(\bf{r},\bf{p})$ that is formally the operator equivalent of the general tight-binding method, inheriting the associativity and Hermiticity of the latter operator. This provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-16 F. Rost , R. Gupta , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , N. Ray , J. Olivares , M. Vogl , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross