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We construct a minimal theory describing the optical activity of a thin sheet of a twisted material, the simplest example of which is twisted bilayer graphene. We introduce the notion of "twisted electrical conductivity", which parametrizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Dung Xuan Nguyen , Dam Thanh Son

In this work, low-energy electron microscopy is employed to probe structural as well as electronic information in few-layer WSe$_2$ on epitaxial graphene on SiC. The emergence of unoccupied states in the WSe$_2$--graphene heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Sergio C. de la Barrera , Yu-Chuan Lin , Sarah M. Eichfeld , Joshua A. Robinson , Qin Gao , Michael Widom , Randall M. Feenstra

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

We have studied the electron transport properties of topological insulator-related material Bi2Se3 near the superconducting Pb-Bi2Se3 interface, and found that a superconducting state is induced over an extended volume in Bi2Se3. This state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-28 Fan Yang , Fanming Qu , Jie Shen , Yue Ding , Jun Chen , Zhongqing Ji , Guangtong Liu , Jie Fan , Changli Yang , Liang Fu , Li Lu

Magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene stands out as a highly tunable class of moir\'e materials that exhibit strong electronic correlations and robust superconductivity. However, understanding the relations between the low-temperature…

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…

Graphene nanoribbons are semiconductor nanostructures with great potentials in nanoelectronics. Their realization particularly with small lateral dimensions below a few nanometers, however, remains challenging. Here we theoretically analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Valentina Tozzini , Vittorio Pellegrini

Chemical and structural diversity present in hexagonal boron nitride ((h-BN) and graphene hybrid nanostructures provide new avenues for tuning various properties for their technological applications. In this paper we investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Alper Kinaci , Justin B. Haskins , Cem Sevik , Tahir Cagin

We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov , Andrey Chubukov

Using a simple setup to bend a flexible substrate, we demonstrate deterministic and reproducible in-situ strain tuning of graphene electronic devices. Central to this method is the full hBN encapsulation of graphene, which preserves the…

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Electrons incident from a normal metal onto a superconductor are reflected back as holes - a process called Andreev reflection. In a normal metal where the Fermi energy is much larger than a typical superconducting gap, the reflected hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 D. K. Efetov , L. Wang , C. Handschin , K. B. Efetov , J. Shuang , R. Cava , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean , P. Kim

The superconducting proximity effect induces pairing correlations in metallic systems via Andreev scattering. This effect is particularly intriguing in graphene, as it enables two-dimensional superconductivity that is tunable through…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

We show that the recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be explained as a consequence of the Kohn-Luttinger (KL) instability which leads to an effective attraction between electrons with originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 J. González , T. Stauber

For the unconventional superconducting phases in moire materials, a critical question is the role played by electronic interactions in the formation of Cooper pairs. In twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), the strength of electronic…

One of the enduring challenges in graphene research and applications is the extreme sensitivity of its charge carriers to external perturbations, especially those introduced by the substrate. The best available substrates to date, graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Chih-Pin Lu , Guohong Li , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Twisted $N$-layer graphene (TNG) moir\'e structures have recently been shown to exhibit robust superconductivity similar to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In particular for $N=4$ and $N=5$, the phase diagram features a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Kryštof Kolář , Yiran Zhang , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Felix von Oppen , Cyprian Lewandowski